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The pictures were taken in 1969. In 1969, a tourist from England, Irving, Snyder traveled to the Soviet Union and, as befits a proper tourist, taking pictures of Soviet reality and the Soviet people. In his photographic archive, part of which is currently at the Jewish Museum and Archives of …

The photos were taken in the late 1980s. Cult Russian and Soviet photographer has a remarkable ability to see people without their masks on, direct and real. Igor Mukhin was born in 1961-th year in Moscow. The College received the profession “fitter plumber”, worked as a technician for heating, night …

In this vast country was something to see. A mandatory attribute of almost every tourist who went to the USSR had a camera. It is very interesting to know how people live in the land of the Soviets. Photos collected in this review were made by tourists who in 1970 …

Fascinating work Seeds Friedland. Semyon Osipovich Friedland — Soviet photographer from Kiev. He was born in 1905 into a family of Jewish shoemakers. Initially, semen Osipovich decided to start a career as a journalist, but soon left the profession due to the force at the time of censorship. In 1932 …

They were made in 1966. “If the photographer is attentive to the models and is compassionate, much is given,” – said the American photographer eve Arnold, who entered the world of photography quite by accident and was able to flip it. Gorgeous photos of politicians and movie stars, stories from …

On the methods of theft of meat from the meatballs and sour cream of sour cream I told you, dear readers, in my previous post. Today we expand horizons and think about how we, the Soviet people, stealing money in other sectors of the economy. Let’s start with the theoretical …

  The first car of Vladimir Putin, was “Zaporozhets”, which he won in the lottery DOSAAF. It is possible that in those same years he shaved with a razor “Kharkiv”, as the order suggests a vacuum cleaner “Rocket”. All this was done in the USSR.   Economy In the Soviet …

During a visit to Beijing, Alexander Lukashenko’s nostalgia for the Soviet Union. But does it make sense to miss this era, if in the country he ruled for 22 years, left its remnants? Here are a few examples from the latest news. 1. Children are sent to harvest In Molodechno, …

Interesting pictures Dean Conger. Dean Conger – American journalist, who in the period from 1966 to 1975, visited all 15 States and dozens of cities in the Soviet Union and its “Soviet Odyssey” was the book “Journey…”, in which he talks in detail about life in the USSR. Moreover, no …

Disappeared Soviet Union and the world hovered on the same support, said the President of Belarus.President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has called the collapse of the Soviet Union a catastrophe for the whole world. “I definitely consider the collapse of the Soviet Union as a catastrophe, which had and has …