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VFYW: From Soviet To Psychedelic

VFYW: From Soviet To Psychedelic

For contest #290, we land in a colorful place with a dark past.

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Jul 17, 2021
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A reader walks us through the scene:

I was not going to enter this week, as I have no idea where this is and would be lucky to guess the continent, but here are my thoughts anyway. One has to stay in the game, right?

The box-like structures on the roofs look like the passive evaporator air conditioners I saw in Australia, but the city skyline is not remin…

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