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When people ask me what the Soviet system of education differs from the current Bologna, I’m not particularly acting smart, tell them this story, which fifteen years ago shared with me one of the teachers of the medical Institute.   It so happened that in the late 70-ies of the …

This saw the country abroad. American Dean Conger, National Geographic fellow, visited the Soviet Union more than 30 times. On every trip he made lots of pictures that told about life in the Soviet Union. And it should be noted that photos of it are very positive – they embodied …

They show Soviet life not from the good side. Below is a selection of anti-Soviet paintings of different years. Some of these paintings were written in the Soviet Union, secretly, “on the table”, the public saw them only after the fall…

The armed forces of Ukraine (AFU) has lost in the Donbass all mortars of Soviet production and now becoming the new weapon of Ukrainian production. On Tuesday, September 27, reports “Interfax-Ukraine” with reference to the chief of armaments of the APU General-major Nikolay Shevtsov. “During the fighting, almost the entire …

The one who got a good Soviet education, of course, different from the modern educationists with breadth of vision, logic, competent Russian speech, convincing arguments. Even detractors of the Soviet system, even those who call themselves anti-Soviet, in General, superior to their brothers in mind the younger generation of those …

An American doctor who wrote the article in the Washington post that the candidate, probably, was poisoned by Russian agents, of course, knew well enough either Soviet or Czechoslovak history. I am afraid that the CIA and the Gosdeportamenta where States vary, of course, took note of this comment is …

In 1935 it was visited by the famous Norwegian photographer. In the Soviet Union before the war, sought by many foreign tourists and journalists. This is a unique opportunity to see the world not only in the images of Soviet photographers, but through the eyes of Western journalists. In this …

These memories familiar to many people. As you know, in the Soviet Union every summer, the parents poured their children to summer camp. Sometimes on all three shifts. Some kids were bathing in this happiness, and for some, life in the barracks routine was life in the barracks, barracks and …

The simple pleasures of human life. Today these photos seem somewhat naive, but attractive. In fact, it was not so long ago. Was and seem to have sunk into oblivion. You can have different attitudes to this age, but for many today it is a part of life.

In the Soviet Union under Stalin’s repressions came as ordinary citizens and prominent figures of science and art. Under Stalin, political arrests were the norm, and very often, the case was fabricated and was based on the denunciations, without any other evidence. Remember the Soviet celebrities who has experienced the …