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~ Time for your bath, children.On May 19, 1922 the second All-Russian Komsomol Conference decided to create pioneer units all over the country.
Thousands of Young Pioneer camps were set up where children went during summer vacation and winter holidays. All of them were free of charge, sponsored by the government and Trade Unions.
These were basically children's camps where kids would spend their summers, playing together, learning, swimming, learning knots, earning medals, wearing red ties, and loving grandfather Lenin.
The 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union had devastated funding for the Pioneer camps and most of them had been forgotten and are now consumed by nature in decay.
This is a shot from one of these camps, lost deep in forest of Siberia.
From what I can tell... this used to be a bathroom.
I jumped into the bathtub and rode in it, praising the spirit of grandfather Lenin.
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Cool shot, love the way you tell the history too
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These places are cool, specially if you are familiar with the history. (As you are)
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"I jumped into the bathtub and rode in it, praising the spirit of grandfather Lenin."
grandfather Lenin would be so proud...
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most charming image,I wish I could visit the place and see for myself
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nice shot, very depressing.... everyone I have talked to who had a childhood in soviet union, told me about these camps and what a great time they had in there.
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The sad and desolate atmosphere of this photo
makes it in one of my favorites ^ ^
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great picture, I started to do photography recently and im currently living in Kiev Ukraine its awesome place for photos like this
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u mean Pioneer camps of communist brainwashing that is.
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i love this..
broken down abonded places always have a better story to tell.
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Is it me, or is there a little girl looking over her shoulder by the low right corner of the window...idk ignore me....
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i meant to say that Β΄looking over her shoulderΒ΄is the pose of the girl i see...in the lower corner of the window, just look, youΒ΄ll get what im saying...
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Are you talking about that tiny little silhouette in the corner?
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yep that one....
idk i always exagerate about things i see in pictures (kinda like omens) 'omg there's a face!' thing. or ' i see thor's hammer in my teacup lolwut'
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Heh, yeah it just seems too small to be anything.
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silent hill must be an abandoned pioneer camp, too...
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Good picture! What is the nearest city of these abandoned camps?
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What a great shot... I can only imagine what finding something like this buried in the middle of nowhere must be like.
I love to see how nature slowly takes things back and how these things decay in the face of it.
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yeaahaaeah
ride that bathtub
that's intensely interesting
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may i ask where u find all those locations you took photos from!? they are like so totally wow!!!
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ah i see. the computer din't really show that part of the message that time. faulty server i suppose. tanx.
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Very depressing 
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...hello ?? ...r u there ?
I need to talk with you... about this excellent pic !
may I used it for a photo manipulation as a background ?
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I love how you can see the light coming through the window, painting lines.
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Nice little history addition. The picture would be interesting no matter what but I love knowing where it came from.
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Just more evidence of the suffering the collapse brought, but that is history. May we not forget, and may we always strive to do better. The black/white film just adds to the air of desrepair. Very moving work.
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I'm not sure why, but this photo makes me sad. :/ It's pretty though.
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I love pretty much everything about this picture
the history, the lighting, the decaying everything
wonderful
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very nice! i love it...creepy like with a lot of back story. i like those
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Those places are amazing. I saw the Discovery channel (I think) thing on humans disappearing from the face of the planet and they showed a place like this. Except the place they had was abandoned because of radioactive fallout from Chernobyl. But to see how time and nature had affected everything was just amazing. Rather then getting rid of it, nature just assimilated it into the rest of the surroundings. That would be an eerie place to visit, but incredible just the same.
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