#USSR

[sovietpostcards]

The Space Conquerors monument in Moscow. Photo by Anatoly Sergeyev-Vasilyev (1964).

#moscow #russia #ussr #1960s

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

1930s reporting on Stalin's Holodomor genocide in Ukraine. 1 2

#ukrainian history #ukraine #communism #soviet union #genocide #ussr #stalin #communists #20th century #russia #eastern europe #1930s

[yodaprod]

Pripyat in the 90s

#pripyat #При́пять #chernobyl #ukraine #ussr #1990s #90s #90's

[folklorespring]

Today, April 26, is the International Day of Remembrance of the Chornobyl Disaster.

#ukraine #chornobyl #ussr #art #chernobyl

[supplyside]

Soviet submarine K-322 Kashalot - Akula Class

#Soviet Union #USSR #CCCP #Akula #submarine #Kashalot #K322 #military #navy

[betomad]

“Gymnasts of the USSR” (1964/65), by Russian painter Dmitry Zhilinsky, (b.1927-2015)

#painting #paint #male gymnast #ussr #dmitry zhilinsky #arts #painting arts #oil #canvas

[semioticapocalypse]

Leonid Lazarev. Thrown out flowers. 1958

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

#BW #Black and White #Preto e Branco #Noir et Blanc #黒と白 #Schwarzweiß #retro #vintage #Leonid Lazarev #Thrown out flowers #USSR #URSS #1958 #1950s #50s #street photography #Photographie de rue #Strassenfotografie #fotografia de rua #ストリートフォトグラフィー #cities #cidades #villes #都市 #Stadtbild #paysage urbain #paisagem urbana #シティスケープ

[pwlanier]

Children's jumper. 1970s.

Atomic age, space race themes.

Peterburg Auctions

#ussr #space race #atomic age #satellites #cold War

[zvyozdochka]

Waiting for spring. Photo by Igor Gnevashev, USSR, 1980s.

#russia #russian #soviet aesthetic #ussr #sovietwave #soviet union #soviet #catlover #black cats

[antiwaradvocates]

New Year's Eve in the dormitory, Leningrad, 1983 (photo by Yuri Belinsky)

#ussr #soviet union

[vintagegeekculture]

"Viy" (1967), the only horror movie ever made in the Soviet Union.

#ussr #russia #horror movies

[sovietpostcards]

Soviet children's mini-books (1960s-80s)

#children's books #book covers #books #ussr #soviet #russia

[jedivoodoochile]

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.

#soviet #ussr

[hummingbird-hunter]

The thing is, I have nothing against socialism or communism as a political ideology; trust me, I'm as anti-capitalist as they come. The leftism is really not the problem here.

The problem is when in their leftism, people – Americans, really, and western Europeans – use the ussr as this sort of goal, this complete antithesis to the modern capitalist society, this almost-utopian place to live. They use hammer and sickle symbol, the ussr anthem; sometimes, as a joke, sometimes, not so much.

Not only that clearly shows that they know absolutely nothing about the ussr – it's also spreading russian propaganda, whether it's on purpose or not, which is especially insidious now, when russia is literally committing a genocide.

The ussr wasn't a socialist utopia where everyone is equal. It was a totalitarian dictatorship, responsible for colonisation and genocide of multiple people and cultures. Just like the russian Empire before it. Just like modern russia continues to do now.

For many Eastern European and Central Asian people, hammer and sickle is not just a symbol of a political ideology. It's the symbol, under which people were starved to death, imprisoned or executed for daring to write in their own language; in which cultures were erased, people – forcefully assimilated, stripped of their own national identity.

It's the propaganda of being "the same people, the same nation" that russians love to use; that westerners love to believe, for the sole reason of the oppressed daring to look similar to the oppressor; for the sole reason of Americans being unable to look past their own history and realize oppression comes in many shapes and forms.

By using the ussr symbols in your political movement, you're denying the atrocities commited under that symbol and spreading russian propaganda, whether it's on purpose or not.

It's not "progressive" to wave around a hate symbol.

Do your research.

#leftism #communism #socialism #ussr #russian invasion of ukraine #russia is a terrorist state #ukraine

[nemfrog]

As the great armies of the US and the USSR converge on Germanay, page 1 of a pamphlet educating American soldiers about their new comrades, soldiers of the Red Army.

Our Red Army Ally. April 23, 1945.

Internet Archive

#ww ii #ussr #united states #red army #indoctrination #1945 #1940s #war

[opendirectories]

#open directories #comrade kitty #cat #books #kgb #russia #ussr #soviet union #espionage