Drugs, Big Hair, and Communism: Belgrade Nightlife in the 80s | VICE | United States

I meet up with Jela and his wife, Nadja, at their home in Belgrade. They were both integral parts of the scene back then. Between 1982 and 1988, Jela would take his camera everywhere he went. The three of us go through his endless photo archive—there’s images of people dancing, hugging, singing, posing sexily, or making silly faces. Many of them are now gone now—the majority fell victim to the largely unrestricted use of alcohol and drugs of the time.