This collection of photos features last 30 years of the USSR’s existence; cheerfulness and confidence in the future of 60’s along with grimness and foulness of 90’s. Looking at the shots you can see the spirit of the USSR, very bright and vivid in the beginning and so gloomy and almost unseeable in the end.
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Fourth. (Forth for IT people.)
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Seventh.
Eighth.
Ninth.
Wait…
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Thirteenth!
DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT!
Me first
PRVI!!!
isn’t so hard, my first reply
That pic of Nixon and Brezhnev is interesting and I dont think I have seen it before.
Fifteenth
amidoinitrite?
PS Image 55.jpg: She looks like she is having a good time, eh?
I’m grateful I lived in the USA during that time, except for the years stationed overseas.
Great set of photographs.
Yeah, those were the days alright – political prisons, no freedom of religion, a brutal secret police, ruinous spending on asinine military adventurism, sending your sons to murder Hungarians and Czechs, and the threat of nuclear annihilation. What a great time that was!
Only the Magyar and Czech were murdered? The YOUSSR is famous for eating their own too. Congrats to all guilty parties for grand celebration of 30 wonderful years of dis-functionality.
indeed
Agreed on the political prisons, no freedom of religion, a brutal secret police. Let’s also remember America’s ruinous spending on asinine military adventurism, sending its sons to murder Koreans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Iraqis, Afghans and its threat of nuclear annihilation.
It goes both ways.
may this be a lesson to the EU
Those were the days where people were innocent and don’t have too many thing to worry about compare to now days.
Sure. Nothing to worry about… like, being falsely informed to KGB by neighbor, “missing” family members, little to eat, only read books, or see TV that the State deems appropriate, etc… People were not “innocent,” (as you say) – they were innocent victims of a thug regime that is now, very thankfully, a past history.
Sure. Nothing to worry about… like, being falsely informed to KayGayBey by neighbor, “missing” family members, little to eat, only read books, or see TV that the State deems appropriate, etc… People were not “innocent,” (as you say) – they were innocent victims of a thug regime that is now, very thankfully, a past history.
Was amazing days..
Why only Moskau???
Not from Moscow only. Nrs 38 and 39 (with trolleybus and 12-storied houses) are definitely from Vilnius, Lithuania.
People may realize eventually living under rule of financial oligarchs is no better.
Yes its 100% that is a nuclear briefcase.
In the one with Brejnev and Nixon, I noticed a briefcase in the left of the pic, leaning on the stool. Would that be the “football”, Nixon’s nuclear briefcase? ’cause if so, I’d like to see Brejnev’s mug when he saw Nixon coming with it.
…and the translator is where? doubt any of ‘em spoke others language…
30th!
I think it is amazing. The photos show alot of life and depth, even the more militaristic ones from the 90s. Being born in the US, and in the military, it saddens me that the propaganda within both Russia and the US keeps most people from ever being able to visit one another without fear of pointless prejudice. I would very much like to visit Russia and other Eastern EU countries one day when I get out of the military.
Dude, there’s a lot of Russians in the US. It’s only in the last 10 years or so that Russians have realized that the US really did mean Russia harm and that it truly was an enemy.
its great to see old photos…nostalgia..!
They shpuld have been ordered by time. This way it’s not as easy to know what are the dates.
As for the politics, at least on the USSR there was no poverty or hunger on those times. And there are still repression, and on the Tsarit times there was even more repression, wide hunger and 90% didn’t even know how to read or write. It was a feudal society ruled by a germanic dynasty.
Great photographs.
obviously not last 30 years, but last 60 years as there are some photos from 1950-s
olga (or sameone in her famyl) has got noble girl baby.she sent her rasputins relatives in the wine basket (under the botles) They were take her bulgaria and they were give her a turkish family(bektashi religions((she did not make,join rutiels all her lifelong).the turkish family grove her.one day she maried and her husband and their 6 sun,2 douther migration in turkey1953 and she died in turkey. she reaplayed again and again “I am gallers princes”all her lifelong