Do you want to know what it felt like to live in the USSR? Look through the pictures below then (The XXVII Communist Party Congress). Some of them you must have seen on ER, here they are collected only for nostalgic feelings!
At school.
In the forest.
The Communistic Labor Will Win In The End!
At home.
The XXV Congress will be marked by new success in labor!
PAMIR cigarettes.
Some other packs of cigarettes.
The colourer on the left and the weaver on the right are discussing their big future plans.
Russian film ‘Little Vera’
‘RUSSIA’
Arbat Square, Frunze Str., Dzerzhinsky Str., Gorky Str.
‘Bread Juice’
Demonstration.
Electric goods.
Milk.
People waiting in lines to buy products.
Moscow State University.
Knitted goods for men.
Let there always be the sky! Let there always be the Sun!
Don’t touch!
Read periodicals issued by Socialistic countries!
Lemonade.
School 650.
Atelier.
Farm commodities.
Cleaners, workers and sellers wanted.
Yesli tolʹko nastoyashchyee neftyanoe bogat·stvo Rossii uspeshno bylo partnerom s ekonomicheskoĭ i sotsialʹnoĭ stabilʹnostʹyu , prinesennoĭ kommunizmom. Slishkom plohoĭ Yelʹtsin dolzhen byl priĭti s yego shokovoĭ terapiyeĭ.
Nice pix.
kvac… oh my god, how i hated that
You hated kvas? whats wrong with you.
Hate kvass? Are you a robot?
Socialist paradise ! ! ! !everyone was enjoying pleasure of good life.no credit cards no bank loan and no evil of “capitalism”! !!!!
evil of capitalism like being able to buy quality products which you can choose yourself instead of standing in a line to buy some inferior food because nothing else is available.
The real capitalist evil is losing your job and then getting ill…
@D. Dad: …No job and ill? You die. Only in America, baby!
Not gone, changed to neo-liberalism & market diktatorship. Now you can buy everything and do what you want, if you have the money that is. Prosperity and decadence for the few and poverty for the many, Russia is “westernised”.
well put, and so for all ex-CCCP countries.
Apart from the economic hardships they were more romantic times, not so much different from my youth in the Netherlands during the late 60′s, early 70′s…
Cvasul este o bautura populara ruseasca foarte buna.
In otografii, vad oameni increzatori,zimbitori.
Vad o tara mare socialista.
L-am vazut pe Marele Lenin. D-l presedinte Ion Iliescu ne-a spus ca,Lenin nu trebuia sa fragmenteze Internationala.
Not all of it was so bad, was it.
In any case, current times are even worse.
Interesting pictures…pictures of a different world. I’m mighty glad I grew up in the USA. The blonde in the bikini is pretty hot-looking.
Man, I wouldn’t trade my childhood in USSR for nothing. On the other hand, I’d rather be a teenager in the USA. Oh, well, it still was fun as it was.
Comrade Marx: Your ideas will never die as long as rational, scientific people are alive somewhere. As many mistakes as Comrade Lenin made, at least some of your ideas were tried (universal education, gender equality, wage leveling, land redistribution, worker’s rights, scientific advancement). Better to have a society approaching classlessness than one approaching gross inequity (many rich, small middle, many poor).
universal education, gender equality, wage leveling, worker’s rights, scientific advancement: this is what we have in Western Europe as well, onlyh we achieved it without terror, without dioctatorship and without creating a class of overprivileged appartsjiks.
And now Europe is broke, just like the Soviet Union. Of course the USA isn’t exactly better either these days, with the people still responsible still doing their thing. –welcome to the world.
Careful. Loonie Tea Party Americans will kill you (and accuse you of Stalinism).
Any social programs Europe has, it achieved through workers’ struggle from below. What the USSR initially achieved, it also did so by overthrowing its masters. There has been plenty of terror directed at all workers; the task is to fight capitalism in all countries, not defend its liberal or conservative variants.
thanks for sharing. What an interesting time
Excellent there was time. I was proud that I live in USSR, was proud of the country…. In a photo with bread not a correct translation – “Don’t touch!”. All inscription wasn’t located in a photo – “HANDS NOT to TOUCH” because people tried to check up fresh bread, hand pressing, and it isn’t hygienic
Russia has already gone through and grown out of this phase in their country’s history now it will be Europe and America’s turn to experience the workers paradise ,especially America with it’s current government traveling full speed ahead toward disaster.
I think you don’t have a single idea of what is a social liberal country such as France or Sweden. (It’s nearly the perfect system IMO).
“I think you don’t have a single idea of what is a social liberal country such as France or Sweden. (It’s nearly the perfect system IMO).”
Obviously you haven’t been to the suburbs of Paris or some of the Swedish villages where foreigners are murdered. It’s not a perfect system if you’re not the majority ethnic group.
As if life was so good in Eastern Europe for ethnic minorities… and as if foreigners are constantly being murdered in Swedish villages…
They are arrested in Arizona (if they look “brown” only).
No, one is arrested in Arizona if they’ve committed a crime.
Ending soviet union was a very big mistake from economic, social and cultural point of view. Look at the world today in these countries. The wall should have never been removed.
Obviously, you do not know what you are talking about. USSR included occupied countries which are today standard EU democracies (Baltic States). I will not bother writing about the Wall – the German above summarized the feelings of the former Ostblock sufficiently.
Cold War was a disaster for many innocent countries torn apart by both sides. For many, it was a blesssing that the USSR collapsed, and a short relief now that the US will be paralyzed in debts for many years. It’s a truly new era.
The photographer obviously missed the bread lines and gulags.
my homeland was ЭССР! =)
good memories
Thanks for sharing these photos.
Anyway, I heard that soviet people were pool and suffering. but now, I confirm that was lie.
A whole lot of lines…
We flock to the US to eat, something really hard to do with our US backed, undemocratic puppet government.
Yes…those damned long lines for food and consumer products.. those which broke the camel’s back. The entire country fell apart becouse of that.