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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Swing­ing, crit­i­cal, cocky Russians

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On a pic­nic and out danc­ing, most likely.

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Three weeks in a Russ­ian town

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Young Rus­sians may speak a lit­tle Eng­lish, should you need to talk to them

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Rent an auto­mo­bile in Rus­sia? Why does it not sound believable?

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A land of con­found­ing diversity

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An inde­pen­dent style of learning.

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Forces of the future

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Var­i­ous scenes from ordi­nary lives

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A heart sur­geon and philoso­pher Dr Amosov– who was also an inven­tor, best-selling author, and exer­cise enthu­si­ast, known for his inven­tions of sev­eral sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dures for treat­ing heart defects.

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Art was often syn­ony­mous with nihilism, polit­i­cal repres­sions and defection.

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The dis­si­dent poets, who both defected later to the USA

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Una Dolce Vita

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Fash­ioned in the USSR, pho­tographed in Leningrad

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Russ­ian beauties


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  3. Soviet Union Admin­is­tra­tive Division
  4. Cat­walk Mod­els With No Under­wear On. Haute Cou­ture Soviet Style.
  5. The Beauty of a Soviet Body

  • clut­ter­bells

    Fan­tas­tic. Just when the USA was about to put men on the moon. Looks more west­ern than I would have imag­ined for that period.

  • misha­belet­sky

    Here is the Life arti­cle in full: http://tinyurl.com/y9b86nm

    • Valiant

      Thanks for this very inter­est­ing post. Full of nos­tal­gia though! Salu­dos from Spain