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Declassified: the Great and Powerful Stalin.

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Joseph Stalin is always with you.

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 words of Eng­lish include the Amer­i­can expres­sion “tough guy” was the man of 1942. Only Joseph Stalin fully knew how close Rus­sia stood to defeat in 1942, and only Joseph Stalin fully knew how he brought Rus­sia through.

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Experimental Soviet Homemade Photography

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From now on each Wednes­day Real USSR will try to bring you enter­tain­ing rather than infor­ma­tive posts – let us know how you like it.

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Sur­real NKVD: Catch me if you can

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 are said to be affected: sen­tenced, shot or sent off to labour camps.

There is a Russ­ian movie about those times – “Burnt By The Sun” (Utom­len­nye Sol­ncem), which in 1994 won the Acad­emy Awards as the best for­eign lan­guage film (imdb rat­ing 7.9÷10). The story is about love in the times of polit­i­cal tur­moil, the love that sur­vives all fears of purges and uncer­tainty. Sur­pris­ingly enough, peo­ple still man­aged to try and have a few laughs dur­ing those harsh times.

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USSR, the Birthplace of Feminism

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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 mar­riage mar­ket — it had a few more severe impli­ca­tions to the can­vas of the Soviet life altogether.

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Love is in the air.

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