The Sputnik Cult
Yesterday we mentioned the 50th anniversary of “Sputneg” (or “Sputnik”) the first artificial Earth satellite. The same year it was launched it had a big impact on all the areas of Soviet life. For example many architects wanted to commemorate Sputneg in their architecture, so many of the houses built that year carry the simplified Sputnik logo on them. Here is some examples:
This is how the Sputnik itself looked like:
(via museum.ru)
And these are the architectural examples with a Sputnik logo:
thanks to Yardkeeper
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I don’t know about this post. Seems like a bit of a stretch.
Yes, but Yardkeeper has a good eye for architectural details.
Exactly. honeslty i feel this is bullshit. Its an universal symbol. very basic.
uhh universal symbol for what?
i wish i had a sputnik logo on my house
The future is not what it used to be.
B.S.
its called Sputnik not Sputneg
I would think most of these buildings were build waaaay before Sputnik..
“Sputneg”? Since when ER gone Albanian?
And many of those building clearly predate the launch, so I reckon author is being sarcastic.
What is it with you and Albania? By the amount of times you mentioned it, one could get an impression that you are truly in love with this country. Is that where you were born?
Well, if you don’t know the story behind Albanian (”Olbanian”) meme in Russian Internet lingo (directly relates to “Sputneg” errative), you may want to consider finding out.
most are photoshopped.
even the photo of sputnik itself is photoshopped,
…as indeed is this message..
you’re wrong, it isn’t photoshop.
It’s Copy and Paste
it’s print-screen -paste
Sputnik not built with the recycled china wok!
eh…?? A bit far fetched huh? But that’s also partly what makes this site so charming =)
First.
This is not Sputnik logo… it’s ’spear fishing rod end’ with the 3 spikes. This sensationalism has got tp stop.
Beauty is in the eye of beholder.just imagine something and enjoy.don`t argue for the logical explanations.
tp for my bunghole
I am a gay ! I love gypsy cocks
Учи олбанский, падонак. Английский тебе все равно ниасилить.
…and impostors blow dead bears.
Сдохни уёбок ! I am a gay Texas1 is my wife
Alright, who is the person that keeps accusing me of being gay? I’m getting really tired of it.
Ну я ж говорил: английский ты так и ниасилил патаму чта многа странных букав.
Are you ready for 19 inch monster dick?write your will immediately………….
Soviets re invent their very own symbols of their socialist religion.they pray sickle and hammer,symbol of sputnik and face of the Lenin.after all the instinct of human is demands something to obey and pray.
Hey Zaf, where are you from anyway? I thought you were Russian.
Sputnik was the best thing to happen to the USA.
But would Pros say that baldy fags copy and paste such symbols?
fuck you !!! i fucked your mother in all holes!!!!
пидры ёбаные, америкосы!!!!!!!!!
your mothers sucks like god
see you loosers!
If memory does not fail me, the saying “fuck your mother” (and its variations) was introduced in what now is Russia by Mongol conquerors in 13th century.
So I guess, dear poster, in your genealogical tree we could find a lot of mothers who contributed to making this saying famous.
idiotismus
This is really a really stupid port. A prank, I guess.
These pics have nothing to do with Sputnik, except for the first rather Babylonian piece of art.
Most of the images show buildings in Art Deco style, very popular at the beginning of the 20th century (before Bolshevik coup). Except for the last one, obviously.
Nevertheless, the “Cult of Sputnik” may be said to actually have existed.
The Sputnik was one of the icons of official Soviet visual propaganda, which included actually a rather pre-defined set of object - sputnik, construction cranes, atom symbol, physically well developed worker with square face and a sledge hammer in his hands, etc.
Just like short and meningless slogans, repeated everywhere - “Peace to the world”, “Lenin always alive” (like in horror movies), “Glory to the labour”, “The Party and the people is one” etc.
Well. The first peace actually also does not look very much like sputnik. God only (or Lenin) knows what does that depict…
It’s ontopic. It’s the bas-relief base of the Space Obelisk at the VDNKh exhibition park in Moscow, and is dedicated to the USSR’s early years of space. I’m pretty sure there’s a Sputnik in there somewhere…
“USSR’s early years of space”
That reminds me of this Polish joke:
It is 1961 and a guy shouts out to his neighbor - Hey! Have you heard it? The Russians flew to the outer space!
- Really? All of them?
- No! Just one!
- Just one??? So why the hell are you bothering me?!
Yet another reminder that xenophobia was and still is a part of everyday life in Poland. So sad..
What a hypocritical bastard you are, Boris. So sad..
Me hypocritical? How exactly?
Me and a few other people are the only ones who who have the guts to stand up against xenophobia, anti-Semitism and Racism on this site on the daily basis. So why are calling me a hypocrite? Please support you accusation.
There are many words to name the thing people feel to the occupants, but xenophobia is not one of them.
Nice pictures, but anyone knows where the real sputnik is? Or did it burn up in space?
I remember reading that it did burn up on re-entry, but pieces of it have ironically fallen on the yard or a guy in USA.
Ironically, because thus it demonstrated the principle of delivery of nuclear device from USSR to USA.
Though I do not guarantee that I remember it correctly.
… of a guy …
You can’t see it really clearly in this photo, but in the first picture, there’s a swastika spray painted on Lenin’s forehead. It’s been there for quite a while (was there in 2005). No one really seems to care about these monuments of historical achievement.
This is ornament very popular in secession style (Jugendstil). It has nothing to do with sputnik and is of course 50 years older than it.
But you can see sputnik decoration some times. For example on the roof of Moskau Cafe in Berlin.
In argentina are there buildings of 1850 whit this simbol
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