An old cal­en­dar of 1964 pic­tur­ing a set of remark­able cit­i­zens of the world: a Soviet per­son next to its Amer­i­can coun­ter­part. Sadly there is no anno­ta­tion left to fig­ure what the mes­sage was  —  infor­ma­tive, pro­pa­gan­dist or other, so the faces below are torn out of con­text. But it is still nice to have a look […]

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My iPad has really got me read­ing recently. On iBooks almost all of clas­sic lit­er­a­ture is free, so I am read­ing a book by Arthur Conan Doyle   —  The Adven­tures of Sher­lock Holmes: The Man with the Twisted Lip. There was a pas­sage that struck me as remark­able (or, as Conan Doyle would put it, rather sin­gu­lar):
One […]

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As pre­vi­ously stated by George Orwell, war is peace. So when Wal­ter Ulbricht, the Leader of the Ger­man Social­ist Unity Party, on June 15, 1961 said: “No one has the inten­tion of build­ing the wall!”, it took only about two months for the con­struc­tion to begin. The run­down state of the East­ern part was forcing […]

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In about six weeks this remark­able man will cel­e­brate his 80^th Birth­day. Who is he? The most pop­u­lar clown of the Soviet Union, also known as the Sun­shine Clown, Oleg Popov is true icon of its own. Born in 1930, he had on of the tough­est upbring­ings ever  —  yet he man­aged to become one of most […]

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It has been a good while since we decided to broaden our for­mat a lit­tle and intro­duce some new excit­ing series for our blog. So today we are intro­duc­ing our Poetic Tues­day: every Tues­day we will (try to) post a remark­able Soviet poem, most prob­a­bly on a fort­nightly basis.  This par­tic­u­lar poem, Win­ter Night by […]

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On May, 25^th 1945 Joseph Stalin made a cel­e­bra­tory speech devoted to the end of the Russ­ian Great Patri­otic War. The Sec­ond World War was com­ing to an end, but the Soviet Union was done fight­ing. The Russ­ian troops had exited Ger­many and ahead lied a long road of rebuild­ing and reha­bil­i­ta­tion. So in Kremlin, […]

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