These myths were very popular. What marked the 80-ies of the last century in the USSR? It was a time of terrible accident at Chernobyl, the time of perestroika, when living in a closed state, the people began to learn a lot of what I didn’t know. And even at …
Read More »The incredible adventures of money in the Soviet Union
… 16 Dec 1947 in Moscow was buzzing like a beehive. Rumors on monetary reform forced people to withdraw all the money from the books, to sweep clean the shelves, to buy anything. The rumors were not groundless — the Soviet Union had a currency reform: on the order it …
Read More »Designers showed the Soviet version of the game Pokémon Go. Photo
This game would look somewhat different. Talented guys from the community 2D Among Us has not remained aloof from the General insanity and offered his version of the popular game Pokémon Go. I must say that the characters in our favorite childhood cartoon is much closer to us Japanese animals-pokemon. …
Read More »From the CIA report in 1982: “the Economic collapse of the Soviet Union is impossible even in the distant future”
.The Soviet Union in economic terms takes the second place in the world in terms of gross national product, has numerous and well-trained productive forces are highly developed industrially. …Despite the fact that between the economic plans and their implementation in the USSR there are differences, the economic collapse of …
Read More »The most expensive pictures taken by Soviet photographers. Photo
These works were sold at Sotheby’s in London. In 2013, at Sotheby’s in London was a collection of 155 lots with the works of “underground” photographers of the former Soviet Union, lets look at the daily life of the time. Just sold 34 lot collections, total sales amounted to 313 …
Read More »Powerful propaganda of Soviet times. Photo
Much of the country was kept on the propaganda. During Soviet times, one of the most powerful instruments of propaganda was propaganda and anti-religious posters. Today, these colorful and bright illustrations to explore the history of the country’s councils, and to feel the spirit of the era. Poster for the …
Read More »Rare photos of Soviet athletes 30-ies of the last century. Photo
In the USSR special attention was paid to physical development. The history of the Soviet era multi-faceted, and special attention in the Country of Advice was given to the development of physical culture and sports. It was thought that every Soviet citizen should at any time come to the defense …
Read More »Why in the Soviet pioneer camp did not happen tragedies like the Karelian
Rector of St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of trade unions Alexander ZAPESOTSKY told how there were children in the USSR. Tragedy on the Syamozero, when in stormy weather, killing 14 of the children resonated with the old cadres, who even during Soviet times, “run” camps. One of them is a corresponding …
Read More »As planned harm to the Soviet state
In the comments to my article “the passion of the Soviet passport” was touched upon a very interesting subject that I would particularly like to pay attention to. In any military school of the Soviet Union learned the same motley crowd, what was the entire population of the country at …
Read More »Nostalgic subjects of times of the Soviet Union. Photo
We remember them from childhood. The Soviet deficit, as well as the fickle fashion of those years together gave rise to the particular home, which all of us have in common. “Fish” on the trellis stood literally at all, and the hall proudly with the hard-won “wall”. And now all …
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