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The Patriotic Education in USSR. Part 2 — Pioneers, Soviet Boy Scouts

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pioner1 The Patriotic Education in USSR. Part 2 Pioneers, Soviet Boy Scouts

We are the pio­neers, sons of work­ing class (a pop­u­lar song)

As you remem­ber from the pre­vi­ous post, at the age of 9 the Soviet Kids grew out of their Octo­ber Kids affil­i­a­tion. The next ide­o­log­i­cal rite of pas­sage was pio­neer­ing which the Soviet coun­try placed a huge impor­tance on. Loosely based on the Amer­i­can Boy Scout’s move­ment, pio­neer­ing cov­ered all kids till the age of four­teen and worked in close rela­tion with schools. Just like any­thing else Soviet style, it had its idiosyncrasies.

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From Admirals to Dictators: Prominent Soviets on the Cover of Time Magazine.

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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 that matter.

The faces are cer­tainly repet­i­tive, yet some cov­ers are a piece of art –this col­lage is worth a good look, so click on the flash bit below, zoom in and explore.

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The 50th Anniversary of the Soviet Union in Old American Mags

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Life and Look on the 50th Anniver­sary of the USSR, 1967.

In 1967, when the USSR turned 5o, it was a big day for both the coun­try and the world. The Soviet Union had made it through, despite every­thing — and the world now had to take it seri­ously. The Cold War, which was at its high­est at the time, kept the USSR in the spot­light, too, so the media were more than inter­ested in the young Russ­ian coun­try.  It really is a shame that the writ­ing can­not be deci­phered due to the low res­o­lu­tion of these scans. How­ever, these images  con­vey the atmos­phere of the times quite well — a wild yet sophis­ti­cated coun­try in the eyes of the civilised world.

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The Swan Song of Mikhail Baryshnikov

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It doesn’t mat­ter how high you lift your leg. The tech­nique is about trans­parency, sim­plic­ity and mak­ing an earnest attempt

Says Mikhail Barysh­nikov, the famous dancer, actor, pro­ducer and pho­tog­ra­pher — a tal­ent for whom the USSR was not big enough.

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Mikhail Barysh­nikov

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Sexy Soviet Underwear. Not!

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Late 1960s. Actress Svet­lana Svetlich­naja is doing a wee strip dance for a movie. This was prob­a­bly the most R-rated scene of the Soviet cinematography.

Due to a series of not so for­tu­itous events ( the Great Octo­ber Social­ist Rev­o­lu­tion of 1917, the First World War, the over­all run­down of the young Soviet coun­try) women never had their needs attended to prop­erly. Under­wear was made, first and fore­most, for the work­ing class with no pref­er­en­tial treat­ment for the females so women had no choice other than to wear those sex­less gar­ments.  This is prob­a­bly the sad­dest part of the Soviet history.

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Catwalk Models With No Underwear On. Haute Couture Soviet Style.

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model 428x500 Catwalk Models With No Underwear On. Haute Couture Soviet Style.

A cat­walk model, circa 1947 – 1957.

Haute Cou­ture, just like in any other other coun­try in the world, did have a place in the USSR. How­ever, it was a dif­fer­ent, iso­lated, strange and suf­fer­ing ele­ment, full of its own pecu­liar­i­ties and cat­fights. Two cat­walk mod­els, Leka Mironova and Tatiana Mikhalkova, rem­i­nis­cent about their jobs at the only Fash­ion House back in the USSR. Those were the days, my friend..!

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