These years were a contentious era. Today someone said about the society of the 1970s as the era of prosperity for all the social ills that you can think of. Someone as an era of prosperity, which today can only dream of. But, perhaps, each of these versions is just …
Read More »Developed if the Soviet Union? And modern Russia is developing?
The supporters of liberalism and the market economy there is a view that the planned economy can not develop, so no development in the USSR was not, and all products copied from Western counterparts. Free-market liberals believe that only the liberal model with free market relations and state interference in …
Read More »Actors of the Soviet cinema in the magazine LIFE. Photo
American viewers saw Soviet actors. In April 1967, the American magazine “Life” published an article by its correspondent Peter young, devoted to the Soviet film Studio “Mosfilm”. The article was called “Super film Studio in the USSR” (U. S. S. R.’s super movie studio) and was beautifully illustrated with wonderful …
Read More »The curious case of Soviet students in the United States
During the Soviet years, a new craze – school exchanges. That is, our students for some time he went to America to live with American families and studying at American schools and American children were educated in Soviet schools and lived in the Soviet families. And in 1989, the year …
Read More »Wedding pictures of the iconic Soviet rockers. Photo
A selection of wedding photos with a brief story about each picture. Viktor Tsoi and Marianne Rodowiska Victor and Marianne got married only after three years of Dating, in February 1985. They met at the birthday party of someone from friends. Choi was 19, Marianne 23. Marianne was older than …
Read More »Pre-war Soviet Union through the eyes of American photographer. Photo
The Work Of Harrison Forman. We continue to publish photographs from the collection of Harrison Forman. He has traveled around the world and visited many of the Soviet cities of Zagorsk, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Nakhodka, Tashkent, Samarkand, Alma-ATA, Tbilisi, Gori and, of course, Moscow. These photographs are a unique opportunity to …
Read More »The brightest Actresses of the Soviet cinema. Photo
Soviet cinema gave the world hundreds of brilliant films and a galaxy of fine actors. With this article we begin a series of articles about the best artists who have become symbols of their era. Today let us remember the Actresses whose careers began at the dawn of Soviet cinema …
Read More »Made in the USSR: first computers of Soviet production. Photo
Modern technology was not invented in one day, and prototypes of many devices existed in the USSR. Yes, already had a tablet and mobile phone, and laptop. Is that looked all of these devices somewhat differently than it is today. The first prototypes of microwave ovens appeared in the USSR …
Read More »Soviet posters calling for the struggle against fascism. Photo
Posters – an essential form of propaganda in the USSR. Posters from this collection are United by a very special connotation, and addressed very accurately – fighter whose family remained in the enemy’s location. Strictly speaking, the red army entering to the liberated village, has nothing further convincing was not …
Read More »Where they filmed the cult Soviet films. Photo
We can watch them again and again. Marina Lystseva writes: “On these legendary memes from the old Soviet movie: “Russo turisto”, “chop chop” and “ham durala”! Surely anyone who has been to Baku, certainly have a picture of himself sitting in the place of “hell” and the door “ilulu then”? …
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