Eating in the USSR

Eating in the USSR

2017 · 52 min · Documentary, History

More than a quarter century has passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. We still feel the contradictory echoes, the echo of this collapse, and, probably, we will feel for a long time. But there is little left that still unites us - former citizens of the former empire, wherever fate brings us - Soviet food, an absolutely unique sociocultural phenomenon of Soviet history and Soviet life.

Directed by Boris Karadzhev · Written by Boris Karadzhev

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