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This is Russian Federal highway Moscow city - Yakutsk City, named "Lena", nowadays. The road doesn't have asfalt surface, though it is a Federal, vital highway. Everytime it rains the road gets paralized, these shots are made a few days before the traffic jam for 600 cars got stuck there. Hunger and lack of the fuel followed, according to the witnesses. One woman gave a born to a child right in the

public bus she was riding. Construction team afraids to appear on site because during their previous visit it was beaten by people who stuck in the jam for a few days. People breaking the locks on the trucks, in a search of food and warm cloths. Fuel, food, firearms and steel tow-line are the things that are needed most these days on this Federal highway.

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Another piece of

Russian comics:

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This is a photo session from a miner’s village in Russia. These photos are made nowadays though when watching them it might seem that they are made in the previous century. A few days ago in Russian newspapers there was an article that 25% of Russian families sometimes experience lack of the money to

buy simple bread, and I suppose that more than 40% of families live in the similar conditions, especially in countryside, and the same time in major cities there is a class of very rich people, buying Ferraris and soccer players for their teams worth of tens millions dollars.

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In Soviet Russia there were a lot of propaganda posters against USA. Here is a little collection of such Soviet art. I splitted it to three parts, so today is the part 1. This

is a Black Sea and Uncle Sam is looking thru spyglass on USSR with a sign "Provocation" on it, standing on US ships. Uncle Sam was widely used to represent USA.

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These photos are made by netwinds.ru activists in the place where are a lot of Soviet cars ending their days. Most of this cars are very rare nowadays on Russian streets and were a subject to a great desire to a few generations of Soviet people, almost

deprived of the right to have a car. Now they stay there as a silent monument in far away countryside to the Soviet era and it’s style of life. Maybe on some of these cars Stalin or Brezhnev drove across the streets of Moscow.

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Russian space agency started offering commercials placement on the body of space rockets and on the launch facility complex around the rocket, same way as it’s done on the sport matches etc. They

offer to place the ads across all the rocket, barriers across the launch site, big concrete structures across rocket gas vent, you can see places marked with arrows on the picture below.

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We’ve got a letter from a visitor, he lives in Moscow, and now their whole house is experiencing the following situation, according to his words: “A government of Moscow had a debt of $300,000. There

was made a decision to cover the debt giving out a half of a block of the land in the Moscow downtown to a private investor. This land included a house which is depicted in the picture.

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These are photos from a photo contest where people mailed in their Soviet photos from the family albums. Year 1924, here is collectivization depicted, an event in the begining of the Soviet state when all peasants and farmers were

deprived of their private property and were forced to participate in the organized by state collective ventures, where all the property belonged to the state people worked there and didn't get a share, just a salary.

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This is the photo of the first Soviet cellular phone. The development of such devices has started in 1958 as a cooperative project by the group of the Soviet scientists from different cities. It was a fully functional mobile phone that was placed in the car of the

Soviet elite. It had a full duplex link and in order to dial a phone one had just pick up the receiver and dial a number using this big square buttons with letters and digits on them. On the first models there were even old-style round dial.

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Just a crazy short comics

from a Russian author.

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