An amateur radio operator, student of the Moscow Aviation Institute, V. Popryanin at the radio receiver of his own design. Photo by Filimonov (Moscow, April 1951).
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The site of an accident, Latvia 1979
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Waiting for spring. Photo by Igor Gnevashev, USSR, 1980s.
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TES-3 Soviet transportable nuclear power plant mounted on self-propelled tracked vehicle. It was designed for use in hard-to-reach areas of the Far North and Siberia, 1950s.
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1926 Jewish gravestone with hammer and sickle, in Ukraine. From myshtetl.org
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"I don't see any god up here. But from here the Earth is beautiful, without borders or divisions."
The first words of a human in space.
Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961.
Thanks to Clara Statello
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Gimme shelter, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg
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Buildings grow in Warsaw, Poland, June 2023
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In love. Photo by Dmitry Donskoy (Moscow, May 1, 1966).
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Selling ice cream, January 1958
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Soviet New Year tree lights, 1960s.
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Soviet porcelain plate, 1921.
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The Promise
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I lived in a narrowly pre-apocalyptic America that existed in a state of Cold War-type political tension, and Roman Catholic nuns were held in general suspicion of involvement with Soviet conspiracies.
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