Remember one of the most remarkable masterpieces of Soviet engineering? Despite only having made one flight, it is still continue to fascinate people across the globe — and She still intends to continue doing so…
The beauty of the beast
Hard work and no play
A good-sized Soviet factory usually consisted of up to a hundred industrial divisions, with 200 – 800 workers in each. They had to be accommodated, fed, and often educated, and typically to the Soviet way of doing things, that often wasn’t handled very well. So if you ever wondered what it would be like to be a young engineer at a large factory in the Soviet Russia — please read on.
Leonid Brezhnev meets Leader of the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Muammar al-Gaddafi in Vnukovo airport, late 1970s.
Photo TASS / Vasily Yegorov; Valentin Kuzmin
And one more..
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi ©, leader of the Libyan Jamahiriya,with Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (3rd-L) smile while members of delegations of both countries sign agreements. Brezhnev and Gaddafi are surrounded by (from left) Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign minister, Nikolay Podgorny, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, and Aleksey Kosygin. (AFP/Getty Images).
1976
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I have come across a very neat collection of the old Soviet fashion magazines from the forties, and I thought I’d share them with you. Very elegant, stylish images — and a little surprise from the insides of one of these magazines. Please read on.
Summer 1936
Mid 1980s. Image courtesy of Life magazine.
Whenever there is a heated argument whether things were better during the USSR times, this statement invariably pops up as a mighty ace: At least they had free medical care in the Soviet Union! This is supposed to bring the opponent to the knees and make them beg mercy and forgiveness for betraying the Great October achievements.
Well well well. Let’s have a close look at what really was free then.
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An old 1950s postcard
The Team at RealUSSR.