In the 1960s, newly independent African countries found an enigmatic, distant friend. The USSR generously offered all kinds of assistance in technical, social and cultural development under the slogans of a new ideology of equality and fraternity, but was everything really as rosy as the propaganda claimed?

For more than 35 years, the Soviets expand their geopolitical influence in Africa with humanitarian aid programs based on Marxist ideology. Up until 1991, some of the country’s best filmmakers were sent along to document the ‘glorious advance’ of socialism on the African continent. The Soviet Union broke apart and “socialism” became a dirty word. Russia, struggling with an economic crisis, lost all political interest in Africa. Still, thousands of kilometers of film footage remain.

St. Petersburg artist Boris Koshelokhov, the guru of the Leningrad underground, decided to bring to life a super-production with a total area of ​​5000 square meters. Two preparatory parts of the project have already been completed.