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very familiar pictures - that was depiction of life of working people in the US in the Soviet media when i was a child.

Apparently the KGB tried to recruit the photographer, Jacob Holdt. He then tried to stop his book being used for propaganda. That probably didn't stop it from happening, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Holdt

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