When Did You Last Go to War

In the woods of Polushkino, a small town in the greater Moscow area, a group of young men and women are reenacting the Vietnam war in the role of American and Vietnamese soldiers, equipped with air gun replicas and cooking noodle soup. 

This project was photographed in 2014 on the relationship to war, historical identity and national pride through participation in two reenactments in the two former Cold War countries.

I had asked myself, which of my friends or acquaintances had had a grandfather fight in battle, an uncle who had fallen in war, a neighbour or a cousin in a wheelchair because of a frag grenade?