Ukraine’s Time of Troubles
Currently based in Paris, Josef Koudelka was born in Czechoslovakia in 1938. Of his numerous books, the most widely known is "Gypsies."
Inflation has run as high as 80%. The average monthly salary is $20. The country is dangerously split along ethnic and regional lines. Once the breadbasket of the Soviet Union, it is now an economic disaster.
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