This myth­i­cal crea­ture of the Soviet kids’ child­hood, some­thing between a Cen­taur and a bicycle, has come into being within a Soviet man­u­fac­tur­ing indus­try dri­ven by an over­pow­er­ing desire to “give all the best” to chil­dren. Most bril­liant minds of the Soviet sci­en­tists were work­ing on the cre­ation of the ideal cross-breed. The mutant was offi­cially labeled a “Pedal Horse” […]

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The young Soviet coun­try could not grow and flour­ish with­out the sup­port and patri­o­tism of its peo­ple. From the early days of the Soviet Union, the ide­ol­ogy organ­i­sa­tions aimed to tar­get cit­i­zens of all ages, oblig­ing them to belong in order to do well in life. So the pes­ter­ing had to start early: when […]

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Apart from the Soviet writ­ers’ pro­lific input into the chil­dren lit­er­a­ture, a great deal of sto­ries was trans­lated into Russ­ian, so the kids of the USSR grew up on the sto­ries by Hans Ander­sen, Charles Pier­rot and the Grimm broth­ers. Often the trans­la­tors took the lib­erty of chang­ing the plot of the sto­ry­line: this is […]

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The cul­ture of wine mak­ing had a long and rich his­tory in the Soviet Union, and its high prof­itabil­ity always ensured an incred­i­ble deal of gov­ern­men­tal sup­port. Due to the cli­mate restric­tions grapes suit­able for wine-making grew in the South­ern areas of the coun­try: Crimea in the Ukraine, the val­ley of Ararat in Arme­nia, as […]

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Here’s our lit­tle some­thing for your Mon­day  —  a com­pi­la­tion of Time mag­a­zine cov­ers with a USSR focus, 1925  —  1991. The promi­nent Soviet and Russ­ian politi­cians, gov­ern­ment lead­ers, poets, com­posers, writ­ers, philoso­phers, sci­en­tists, astro­nauts, dis­si­dents, admi­rals and a few dic­ta­tors  —  the list of 110 remark­able cit­i­zens of the Soviet Union; those who made the West cringe  —  or laugh for […]

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Joseph Stalin was prob­a­bly one of the most mul­ti­fac­eted, con­tro­ver­sial and yet unknown per­sons in the course of the world his­tory. In Jan­u­ary 1943 Time mag­a­zine fea­tured Stalin as the Per­son of the Year, say­ing:
The year 1942 was a year of blood and strength. The man whose name means steel in Russ­ian, whose few […]

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