Day of Inter­na­tional Sol­i­dar­ity of the Work­ing Class, or Labour Day  —  was cel­e­brated in Rus­sia on May, 1^st  from 1919 to 1990. A pub­lic hol­i­day for each every city, every town­ship or vil­lage had a parade organ­ised: flags were car­ried, posters and ban­ners were up, kids had red bal­lons and por­traits of the gov­ern­ing men were on […]

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Please wel­come our new author Vadim Costyrin with his first but seri­ous post on the present days of those born in the USSR, brought up by the Yeltsin’s coup and now left to seek their national and cul­tural iden­tity all by them­selves.
Once the USSR inspired us with fear, now this coun­try does not exist. We […]

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No doubt pho­tog­ra­phy was a pop­u­lar art in the USSR. Here and below are pic­tures taken by the peo­ple all over the Soviet state of Mol­davia. Today’s set based on the book called “Mol­da­vian Art of pho­tog­ra­phy”, Kishinev (recently renamed to Chisinau), 1985.
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This time we are trav­el­ing to Kiev, the cap­i­tal of one of the most sig­nif­i­cant Soviet states  —  the Ukraine. Below you will find pic­tures from a book called “Ama­teur Pho­tog­ra­phers”, pub­lished in Kiev in 1986.
If you would like to clar­ify what is on the pho­tos   —   do not hes­i­tate to ask.  Click on the mag­ni­fy­ing glass icon for a […]

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