#USSr

[zvyozdochka]

Khreshchatyk at night, Kiev (Kyiv), Ukrainian SSR, 1979 (photo by Mykola Kozlovskyi)

#soviet aesthetic #ussr #soviet #soviet union #ukrayna #ukraine

[sovietpostcards]

Kamchatka. Photo postcards by V. Gippenreiter (1961).

#vintage postcards #russia #ussr #nature #horses #60s

[semioticapocalypse]

Antanas Sutkus. Marathon in the Universitets Street. Vilnius. 1959

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#BW #Black and White #Preto e Branco #Noir et Blanc #黒と白 #Schwarzweiß #retro #vintage #Antanas Sutkus #Marathon #Universitets Street #Vilnius #Lithuania #Lietuva #USSR #1959 #1950s #50s

[justacynicalromantic]

THIS.

This guy from Romania put everything down splendidly.

I understand, most "woke" US teens want to push "US bad" narrative nowadays to look cool, but for those of you guys who feel depressed - because your media has been constantly telling you about America's many failures in foreign politics in the last 50 years as if it was all a failure.... But guys. Guys. My guys. Americans.

YOU LITERALLY FREED A DOZEN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.

FREED. Do you understand me?

People here in Eastern Europe CELEBRATED it like they celebrated the end of WWII. People CRIED and hugged and went to the streets when the fucking empire fell.

People created human chains that SPANNED COUNTRIES to tell the world they do not want to be part of USSR (Google "The Baltic Way").

In Ukraine, the all-country vote for leaving USSR got the overwhelming ~90% in favor support throughout all the country (YES, IN RUSSIAN-SPEAKING DONBAS TOO)

The propaganda (fed by Russian spies in the West) has warped your own impression of yourselves, so I am putting it all in perspective so you would know - you did some incredible good too, guys. You helped a dozen of previously military occupied countries free themselves.

And now you are helping the same countries protect their Independence when the same regime that had occupied them previously have now recovered its strength and have started trying to re-collect them all again.

#america #ukraine #eastern europe #baltic states #ussr #soviet union #russian imperialism #russian culture #russian invasion #russia is a terrorist state #україна #укртумбочка #укртамблер #укртумба

[pwlanier]

Children's jumper. 1970s.

Atomic age, space race themes.

Peterburg Auctions

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

[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

[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

[zvyozdochka]

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

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

[sovietpostcards]

Sweet section of a grocery store in Moscow. Photo by I. Vinogradov (1965).

#1960s #shops #working women #russia #ussr

[semioticapocalypse]

Jesper Hom. Nina Petrowna Chruschtschowa with models. Paris. 1961

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#BW #Black and White #Preto e Branco #Noir et Blanc #黒と白 #Schwarzweiß #retro #vintage #Jesper Hom #Nina Chruschtschowa #Paris #1961 #1960s #60's 60's fashion #1960's fashion #vintage fashion #USSR #France #portrait #肖像 #画像 #retrato #Porträt

[mayanhandballcourt]

Photographer Frederic Chaubin

#photography #frederic chaubin #soviet union #ussr #architecture #new topographics

[the-orange-shit-stain-scam]

So called MAGA “Patriot” leaders wrap themselves in our flag while pissing on the legacy of our founding fathers and the constitution. A vote for The False Orange Savior is a vote for tyranny. Putin thanks all of the MAGA politicians via $$$ for their service in the dismantling of the “United” States of America. It is always hard to accept that you have been scammed. However, this is reality. Look up how Putin was trained to take down western governments via creating this form of internal cancer when he was in the KGB.

#the orange shit stain scam #trump 2024 #donald trump #maga #make america great #maga 2024 #2024 elections #2024 presidential election #2024 election #tyranny #stop putin #the lies of donald trump #fuck maga #trump lies #usa #us politics #ussr #trump and russia #trump and putin #founding fathers #us constitution #kgb #traitor trump #putin’s bitch #putin’s puppet #stop russia #election 2024 #maga republicans #Putin and the kgb