The last games of the USSR
35 years ago, in October 1988, the summer Olympics ended in Seoul. For the Soviet Union, as it turned out, it was a sports farewell The grand opening of the XXIV summer Olympic Games in Seoul. Athletes carry an Olympic flag. Photo: Valery Zufarov, Igor Utkin / Photokhronika TASS ... My dad, the photojournalist of Komsomolskaya Pravda, Evgeny Uspensky, was supposed to shoot this Korean sports fair. But at the decisive moment in the editorial office, everyone outplayed.