Employee preparing fish in the cement factory’s canteen, Angarsk, Russia

Employee preparing fish in the cement factory's canteen. It is as if the moment the cement factory was completed in the fifties, the ice age set in. "Our factory was the most beautiful in the Soviet Union's industrial culture. We produced above capacity. It was a clean factory; there were six greenhouses where we grew roses, which we distributed on Women's Day. That's no longer possible; we are only allowed to make cement now. The factory was awarded the Order of Lenin twice. Then the perestroika destroyed everything. We have lost 18 years. The collective has fallen apart."