The Lysenko Brothers: All Ten Served in the Second World War and All Ten Returned Home
This post was originally published on this siteDuring the Great Patriotic War, it was a tragic reality that many Soviet families lost sons, fathers, and […]
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Soviet Style and Speed: Unconventional Racing and Concept Cars from the Soviet Union
This post was originally published on this siteThe history of the Soviet Union’s automotive industry traces its origins back to the late 1920s and persisted […]
Unexpectedly Beautiful Women’s Fashion in the Soviet Union from the 1960s and 1970s
This post was originally published on this siteFashion in the Soviet Union during the 1960s and 1970s was influenced by the socio-political environment of the […]
Soviet Retro Visions: How Soviets Imagined the Year 2017 in 1960
This post was originally published on this siteWhat were the expectations of the Soviet Union’s citizens regarding life in the year 2017? In 1960, the […]
Project 941 Akula: Typhoon Submarines in Rare Photos
This post was originally published on this siteThe Typhoon-class ballistic missile submarines stand as emblematic symbols of Cold War military might, leaving an indelible mark […]
Soviet Fashion: Styles and Colors of the 1980s Soviet Union
This post was originally published on this siteBack in the Cold War era, much like other Americans, we used to think that all Soviet women […]
Color Photos of Stalin-Era Soviet Union Taken by a US Diplomat Who Got Deported for Espionage, 1950s
This post was originally published on this siteDuring the tumultuous years of the Cold War, when political tensions between the United States and the Soviet […]
Witnessing 1930s Moscow Through a Norwegian Journalist’s Account
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1935, Norwegian journalist Eirik Sundvor embarked on a journey to the Soviet Union, capturing striking photographs of […]
Laika: The Soviet Space Dog Sent on a One-Way Trip into Orbit, 1957
This post was originally published on this siteIn the early days of the Space Race, the Soviet Union sought to establish its dominance in space […]
The Siege of Leningrad Through Rare Historical Photos, 1941-1944
This post was originally published on this siteThe Siege of Leningrad was a brutal and devastating military campaign that lasted for 872 days, from September […]
Yuri Gagarin: Everyday photos of the First Man in Space, 1960s
This post was originally published on this siteYuri Gagarin, Hero of the Soviet Union, was a cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into […]
Life in the Soviet Ukraine seen through the eyes of Western photographers, 1988
This post was originally published on this siteThese photographs were taken in 1980 by Bruno Barbie and Carl De Keyser and show the everyday life […]
Vintage advertising posters of Soviet cars from the past, 1970s-1980s
This post was originally published on this siteThis collection presents the most interesting advertising posters which were shown not only in the Soviet Union but […]
The brutal art of early Soviet antireligious propaganda posters, 1920-1940
This post was originally published on this siteThese posters were published in the Soviet anti-religious magazine, Bezbozhnik (“The Godless”) from 1922 to 1941. The main […]
Soviet subcultures through vintage photographs: Hippies, punks, goths, and metalheads, 1980s
This post was originally published on this siteThe subcultures in the Soviet Union, a country cut off from the West by the infamous Iron Curtain, […]
Creative Soviet anti-alcohol posters, 1930-1988
This post was originally published on this siteIn May 1985, as one of the first measures under the new general secretary of the Communist party, […]
The unintentionally homoerotic Chinese-Soviet communist propaganda posters, 1950-1960
This post was originally published on this siteIn October 1949, the Chinese Communist Party led by Mao Zedong claimed victory and formed the People’s Republic […]
Sketches used by the Soviet police to identify suspects based on ethnicity, 1960s
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
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
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) […]
Kyra Petrovskaya: Soviet sniper girl and survivor the Siege of Leningrad, 1940-1980
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 […]
How Stalin’s propaganda machine erased people from photographs, 1922-1953
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 […]
The first McDonald’s in Moscow that drove the city mad, 1990
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 […]
The deadly Soviet women snipers, 1941-1945
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 […]
Chernobyl Disaster in rare pictures, 1986
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 […]