The bleak and bland shop fronts that capture the grim reality of life behind the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s

The bleak and bland shop fronts that capture the grim reality of life behind the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s  Photographer David Hylnsky made four trips to the Eastern Bloc in the late 1980s and took a series of more than 8,000 images showing the everyday products and services now taken for granted.