Galina Toktalieva - Diary of Female Photographer©

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The moral postulate of soviet society was simple: who does not work must not eat, and parasitism was considered to be hardest sin. One could even be in problems with police suspected in parasitic mode of existence.
Living in center of Europe nowadays, I see symbiotic relationships with society to be of no great fault at [...]

Thorns

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I attained normal Soviet school, where among other exotic subjects
we studied scientific atheism.
In classroom with portrait of Mongolian looking Leader and quotation: �Religion is opium for people�
teacher talked about Darwinism and astrophysics mocking over
tales of holy world creation.
We were busy with history of Christianity, and there was Moslem country outside - with neither veil, nor [...]

I have never met photographer who would not consider himself to be genial.
Most of them including those who photograph only for home archives - regard them to be unsurpassed specialists in photography and also consider others species with cameras to be ridiculous. Whenever I meet with next hobby photographer he hurries to give me advice [...]