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Sketches used by the Soviet police to identify suspects based on ethnicity, 1960s

October 8, 2020 Rare Historical Photos 0

This post was originally published on this siteThis card was used by police in the Soviet Union to identify different nationalities by facial phenotypes. Originally […]

An unauthorized photo of Stalin: the moment he was informed that the Germans were about to take Kiev, 1941

July 24, 2020 Rare Historical Photos 0

This post was originally published on this siteAn unauthorized photo of Stalin inside of the Kremlin shows the very moment he was informed that the […]

Evgeny Stepanovich Kobytev: A soldier’s face after four years of war, 1941-1945

July 4, 2020 Rare Historical Photos 0

This post was originally published on this siteThese two pictures are shown side by side in the Andrei Pozdeev museum. The museum caption reads: “(Left) […]

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Kyra Petrovskaya: Soviet sniper girl and survivor the Siege of Leningrad, 1940-1980

March 1, 2020 Rare Historical Photos 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe Soviet sniper girl Kyra PetrovskayaKyra was born in 1918 on the coast of the Black Sea in […]

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How Stalin’s propaganda machine erased people from photographs, 1922-1953

February 26, 2020 Rare Historical Photos 0

This post was originally published on this siteStalin didn’t have Photoshop, but that didn’t keep him from wiping the traces of his enemies from the […]

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The first McDonald’s in Moscow that drove the city mad, 1990

October 27, 2019 Rare Historical Photos 0

This post was originally published on this siteNowadays it’s hard to believe that thousands of people would be willing to stand out in the cold […]

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The deadly Soviet women snipers, 1941-1945

October 16, 2019 Rare Historical Photos 0

This post was originally published on this siteDuring the Second World War, the Soviet Union used more women in combat than any other country. Hundreds […]

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Chernobyl Disaster in rare pictures, 1986

June 3, 2019 Rare Historical Photos 0

This post was originally published on this siteOn April 26, 1986, a series of explosions destroyed Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4, and several hundred staff and […]

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Dior models in the streets of Soviet Moscow, 1959

June 2, 2019 Rare Historical Photos 0

This post was originally published on this siteAt the end of 1950s a real sensation happened in Moscow: Christian Dior models came to visit the […]

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Germans at Stalingrad, 1942-1943

March 14, 2018 Rare Historical Photos 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn June 1941 Hitler ordered a surprise invasion of the Soviet Union, and for most of the next […]

The Haunting Mystery Of The USSR’s Lost Cosmonauts

January 28, 2018 All That Is Interesting 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn 1961, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. However, some conspiracy theorists speculate that the […]

How Vladimir Demikhov Actually Made A Two-Headed Dog

January 15, 2018 All That Is Interesting 0

This post was originally published on this siteThough it’s hard to believe that Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov actually made a two-headed dog, these surreal photos […]

4 Real Frankenstein Experiments And The Mad Scientists Behind Them

January 10, 2018 All That Is Interesting 0

This post was originally published on this siteFor decades before and after Mary Shelly’s book, several prominent scientists were putting serious brainpower into real Frankenstein […]

Meet The Lykov Family That Survived Alone In The Siberian Wilderness For 42 Years

January 6, 2018 All That Is Interesting 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn 1936, the Lykov family left civilization and went to live deep in the Siberian forest, where they […]

Inside Stalin’s “Cannibal Island” – The Ultimate Hunger Games

January 5, 2018 All That Is Interesting 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn the 1930s, Joseph Stalin deported thousands of opponents and prisoners to a barren, isolated location that would […]

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The bloody battles of The Eastern Front, 1942-1943

January 4, 2018 Rare Historical Photos 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe battles on the Eastern Front constituted the largest military confrontation in history. They were characterized by unprecedented […]

The Disturbing Story Of The Only People To Ever Die In Outer Space

December 14, 2017 All That Is Interesting 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe full story behind the hotly-debated deaths of the men aboard Soyuz 11. Sovfoto/UIG via Getty ImagesThe crew […]

How The C.I.A.’s Project Azorian Attempted To Steal The Soviet K-129 Nuclear Submarine

November 30, 2017 All That Is Interesting 0

This post was originally published on this siteDiscover the unbelievable story of Project Azorian, the CIA’s Cold War effort to steal the K-129 nuclear submarine […]

Meet The 6 Deadliest Soviet Snipers Of World War II

September 28, 2017 All That Is Interesting 0

This post was originally published on this siteThese six legendary male and female Soviet snipers not only aided the Soviet’s army but also changed the […]

Forgotten Victims: 30 Harrowing Photos Of Prisoners Of War Throughout History

September 24, 2017 All That Is Interesting 0

This post was originally published on this site 1 of 31 Japanese prisoner of war sits dejectedly behind barbed wire after he and some 306 […]

Lenin Died In 1924, But His Corpse Has Been Perfectly Preserved Ever Since

September 20, 2017 All That Is Interesting 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe top-secret procedure that’s keeping this body so well preserved remains shrouded in mystery to this day. AFP […]

How The Winter War’s “Ghost Soldiers” Helped Secure World War II For The Allies

September 19, 2017 All That Is Interesting 0

This post was originally published on this siteThis widely overlooked conflict changed world history forever. 1 of 31 Finnish troops wear gas while on skis. […]

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