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How Ukrainians lived in the 1990s

How Ukrainians lived in the 1990s

1996, 49 min

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1996.

Documentary film "Expulsion from Paradise" about unemployment and other social problems of Ukrainians in the post-Soviet 1990s.

On the video: a nudist beach, reflections on the adaptation of Ukrainians to a new life after the collapse of the Soviet Union; children's drawings of the everyday life of female workers of the Berdyansk knitting factory; comments of Ukrainians about the reasons for nostalgia for the Soviet period; archival records of the May Day and October marches; a story about the problems of unemployment and the relevance of vacancies; a blitz poll in the Kyiv Employment Center; the daily life of Pechersk residents, conflicts between residents of the building; a story about social stratification; strikes of the unemployed, supporters of the Communist Party of Ukraine, representatives of the UNA-UNSO on a hunger strike, various plans for Maidan Nezalezhnosti; blitz poll of people who received a second education.

Comments: deputy, factory worker Valentyna Dubiaga; fashion designer Tetyana Serdyuk; professor Yuriy Palekha.