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Think These Are Planets? They're Something Far More Sinister


KGB
KGB Patarei
KGB Corner House
Ministry of Public Security
Stasi
surveillance."Prisons
Socialist Republics
Odnoviun
CNMN Collection
Nast
Condé Nast


Patarei
Magnetic Fields
Odnoviun
Stasi
Peter Rubin


Polish
Latvian
Communist
Soviet
Nazi
Soviets


the Corner House
Hohenschonhausen
Eastern Europe


Lontsky Street
California Privacy Rights


Warsaw
Poland
Tallinn
Estonia
Cesis
Latvia
Riga
Vilnius
Lithuania
Lviv
Ukraine
East Berlin
Poznan
Siberian City
the Soviet Union
East Germany


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Summary

A spy hole in a door at the Mokotow prison in Warsaw, Poland, used by Polish secret police following World War II.The KGB ran the Patarei prison in Tallinn, Estonia, where this spy hole is found.The photographer shot this spy hole at a KGB prison in Cesis, Latvia.This image was shot at the Corner House in Riga, Latvia, which housed the Latvian headquarters for the KGB.A spy hole captured at the KGB Patarei prison in Tallinn, Estonia.Scratches cover the glass of this spy hole at the KGB Corner House in Riga, Latvia.A spy hole at a small KGB prison in Cesis, Latvia.The Mokotow prison in Warsaw, Poland, where this spy hole was captured, was run by Poland's Ministry of Public Security in the decade immediately following World War II.A spy hole in the basement prison of the KGB headquarters in Vilnius, Lithuania.This rust-covered spy hole lives in a prison in Lviv, Ukraine.A spy hole in a door at the Lontsky Street prison in Lviv, Ukraine.A spy hole found at the infamous Hohenschonhausen remand prison in East Berlin, run by the Stasi.This spy hole is located in a small prison once run by Poland's Ministry of Public Security in Poznan, Poland.The view into a spy hole at the Hohenschonhausen prison in East Berlin.At first glance, the abstract discs above look like planets orbiting some distant star, something beautiful and serene. Those who were deemed to be threats were interrogated, tortured, and locked for months behind heavy metal doors.Odnoviun documented the spy holes in those doors at eight former prisons in Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Ukraine, and Germany for his series Surveillance.

As said here by Laura Mallonee