This photo of a Soviet WWII veteran was banned in the Soviet Union. My late uncle & grandmother told me about how, growing up in Kyiv and Moscow, respectively, they always saw men like this—until one day, they just all disappeared. The Kremlin decided they made the city look bad. https://t.co/sH47PfAsS1

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) May 11, 2022