From now on each Wednes­day Real USSR will try to bring you enter­tain­ing rather than infor­ma­tive posts  –  let us know how you like it.
These pho­tos are from a pri­vate col­lec­tion of a typ­i­cal Moscow fam­ily. They are dated back to 1936  –  1940 -  the years known as the  period of Stalin’s most cruel polit­i­cal repres­sions.  Sev­eral mil­lion people […]

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In the late 1950s, when the Cold War between the USSR and the USA was at its peak, the next step of flex­ing the power mus­cle was the space explo­ration. Since both coun­tries were try­ing really hard to outdo each other, it was only a mat­ter of time before one would take over.
The way it happened, […]

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The very though of women com­pet­ing for the title of the most beau­ti­ful was a fairly adver­sar­ial con­cept for the Soviet ide­ol­ogy. A woman, first and fore­most, was a worker, an achiever, a mother and a wife, and nobody would con­sider judg­ing one on the phys­i­cal attrac­tive­ness  —  let alone allow women spend the valu­able time and […]

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While the chil­dren from Europe and USA used to play with Mickey Mouse and Don­ald Duck, their Soviet coun­ter­parts enjoyed the char­ac­ters of Souzmultfilm’s car­toons  –  the ana­logues of the Amer­i­can Tom and Jerry  –  the Hare and the Wolf. The Soviet slot machines were an inte­gral part of enter­tain­ment in the USSR. For an ordi­nary Soviet cit­i­zen these […]

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After the Sec­ond World War in Italy the car­mak­ers realised that it would be a long time before every­one who needed a car would be able to afford one. So the smart Ital­ians switched to design­ing and pro­duc­ing motor scoot­ers: these light, afford­able, ergonomic Ves­pas, a low cost prod­uct avail­able to every­body.
Need­less to say, Vespa […]

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From the very dawn of Soviet power and devel­op­ment,  due to a series of tragic events, women sig­nif­i­cantly out­num­bered men by about 20 mln. The Rev­o­lu­tion of 1917, first World War, Stalin’s polit­i­cal repres­sions, sec­ond World War, tough recov­ery peri­ods  —  all of this con­tributed to the num­ber of men steadily decreas­ing. Not only it affected the […]

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