They were feared by German soldiers. When Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, hundreds of thousands of Soviet women went to the front as nurses, staff employees, chefs and even snipers. More than 2,000 women trained sniper art and sent to the most dangerous areas of combat …
Read More »Crazy buildings constructed during the Soviet era. Photo
Their creators clearly went beyond the usual. The era, though the Soviet Union is gone, however she still continues to remind of itself many extraordinarily original buildings. These monuments and buildings are distinguished by their special socialist architecture that is acutely felt all the power of the former Soviet regime. …
Read More »Selection of interesting photos of Soviet times. Photo
Someone they call nostalgia. Want to travel back in time to recall the rhythm of life of the Soviet era and to see the best works of Soviet photographers? To see a selection of stunning Soviet cadres, who prepared Rosphoto and the project center of photography behalf of the Lumiere …
Read More »Best print work of the Soviet photographer. Photo
Sychev was the first photographer who came to the West with footage of everyday life of the Soviet people. Vladimir Sychev was born in Kazan in 1945, he studied at the Kazan aviation Institute, played the saxophone. After graduation he worked as a radio engineer at Baikonur. In 1965, he …
Read More »The Soviet Union sold for just $ 12 billion in 1985?
The collapse of the Soviet Union itself began in 1985, but the main blow came in 1987, when the troops of the KGB on the orders of Gorbachev who abuse their official powers, have become involved in not ensuring the state security of the USSR, and the introduction of the …
Read More »Donbass was armed with Soviet times
Yuri Loza thoroughly talked to the journalist of Ukrainian news Agency “Apostrophe” — You often write in Facebook on acute socio-political topics, so if you don’t mind, I would like the conversation to start with this and then move on to musical and cultural topics. — Well, give. — How …
Read More »The best works of one of the most controversial photographers of the Soviet Union. Photo
He has developed his own style. This artist did not aspire to success within the Soviet system, he behaved as befits a marginal artist in the USSR: drank a lot, did not engage in any professional and creative unions, he loved beautiful women and did not recognize authority in the …
Read More »Entertainment threat of Soviet children. Photo
Then the children were not sitting at home behind computers. “I was not some notorious hooligan, homeless or punks. But when I remember what we were doing in the yard, I sometimes become a bit uncomfortable. Our skills could envy a real extremist,” so interesting about your childhood told in …
Read More »Google returned to the Soviet the names on the map of Crimea
Earlier in the Ministry threatened the company with problems due to the compliance of Ukrainian legislation on de-communization.Google has decided to return to the map of the Peninsula occupied by the Soviet place names, previously replaced the historic Crimean Tatar names used in the framework of the company’s Pyrrhic victory …
Read More »Free Soviet medicine in the archival images. Photo
To medical assistance could expect everything. One of the most important indicators of people’s living standards and welfare States, of course, is the status of the health sector. This includes not only research funding, the emergence of innovative developments, promotion of scientific activity and level of qualification of doctors, but …
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