Moscow Decorated For Soviet Holidays, 1932
During Soviet holidays many Russian cities were decorated with different Soviet propaganda stuff.
Here are photos from the Moscow city back from 1932.
As years passed this tradition only srengthened, at the end of Soviet era cities were drowning in red flags and slogans on each holiday.
“Our life is much better now! Our life is a great fun today!”
Statues of lenin, red flags everywhere.
Red stars Red Flags. All this almost 100 years ago.
Even cars are decorated.
Every structure tried to be decorated.
“We are invincible!”
“1st of May!”
“Comrade Stalin love kids!”
For every holiday new monuments were opened.
“We devote this to the Heroes of Soviet Union”
Look how people walking around just don’t correlate with fantastic monuments and decorations.
An USSR balloon.
What is this? Soviet Robot?
Flat contour figures were constructed everywhere.
Again thouse flat figures on the bridge.
“We are not afraid of the menaces! We are ready to answer to any who will hit us!”
“Bycicle factory joins Soviet Socialistic Industry march”
“Go Ahead!”
Again, look at the people and at the structures. It seems that structures come here from some fantastic movie, and people just look trivial people how they were 100 years ago.
And once again some unreal Soviet creature and common people.
It’s pity but you can’t see any of these nowadays why travelling to Moscow or to Russia. Maybe just in Chernobyl where the city stays practically untouched from 1986, the year when Soviet union started to collapse.
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Please excude me for be crude, but…
“Comrade Stalin loves kids.”
BAHAHAHAHA!
Well, after his apparent conduct on the train that time it might just be true. Then again, she was more of a young lady. Sorry I can’t give more information as to when, where or who… but I hope someone knows what I mean.
I’m always interested in Propaganda, a glimpse inside ‘then’ in Russia… it’s the bit that almost nobody in the West has ever seen.
Oh question…
This is 1932, who are the ‘menaces’ mentioned? Britain and the US maybe? They were anti Comintern, how about the Nazi Party brewing up, the Guomindang in China?
Or just anyone who wasn’t Sovjet?
Robert, you mean Stalin’s young wife or how he “loved” his son Yakov so much that he had to die in German imprisonment during WW2?
Anyhow, this whole mentality isn’t lost yet unfortunately, this reminds strongly of North Korea right now.
Stalin’s young wife.
Didn’t know about Jakov to be honest.
Kind of reminds me of the flag-waving, Founding fathers and all of the other patriotic bullshit that is going on in United States.
In answer to your other questions, Robert, officially anyone who wasn’t working class was considered an “enemy of the people”, bolsheviks basically obliterated the upper and middle class in a relatively short time. And those who didn’t agree found themselves either in GULAG imprisonment/labour camps in Siberia, or in the grave. The whole system was based on fear and bloodshed. This also means that all of the non-communist regimes/states became an enemy.
The rethorics used then are frighteningly similar to those used now by many people in modern Russia, even here, on englishrussiadotcom, meaning that all capitalist state regimes were considered anti-human and anti-Soviet (”russophobic” is the modern term used); constant “witch-hunt” on spies and enemies, which led to many “anonymous hints” on neighbours, for example. Fear was the key, many millions (historians’ evaluations vary from 10 to 120) of *own* civilians were killed during Stalin’s reign under accusation of being a spy, “kulak” (basically a farmer who worked maybe a bit more land than usual and sometimes used help from other people; direct translation means “fist”), traitor etc. Not to mention half of Ukraine was literally starved to death (the term for that: Golodomor). The tragedy of Ukraine’s starvation lies in the fact that it was INTENTIONAL.
To give you an idea, what the society looked like back then, read Orwell’s 1984 or see the movie starring John Hurt. Not exactly the same, but similar. Only option was to adore the party and its’ leaders and the resistance was practically useless, as one could secretly report to NKVD (which later became KGB). The so-called “elections” magically had 90-100% of the votes, and often, if not mostly, there was only one candidate to vote for anyway.
Very good and very accurate post. Sounds like you know your history…
The last one is “Krokodil”(means crocodile), symbol of most popular Humoristic magazine in USSR.
Steroid: You just described the present situation in the United States. Well, to out it in your words, “not exactly the same, but similar”.
If my memory serves me right, these photos where taken at the same time as the Ukrainian famine that was going on several hundred miles to the south. Didn’t that famine happen in 1932?
dRE: blah blah blah blah America blah blah blah sucks blah blah blah. The subject was Russia, by the way. And whatever happens in US, doesn’t justify what was done in USSR anyway.
Doug: you’re right, the famine was 1932-33.
Steroid: blah blah blah blah USSR bad blah blah blah dictatorship blah blah blah no democracy.
The only one who’s doing “blah blah” is you. You seem to be talking like someone who went through Gulag and lived through the Soviet times. I doubt that. Since you probably read about it in american history books (or even worse, read only “1984″), you can fuck off! Don’t talk like you know something about life in a different country, dork.
steroid ты еблан и пидарас
another ideological battle?
FACT!!!
“Я не меняю солдата на генерала” - сказал Сталин,когда ему предложили обменять захваченного в немецкий плен сына Якова на фельдмаршала Паулюса.
Sorry 4 my English, i try to translate it.
“I will not exchange simple soldier on general” - Sad Stalin, when germans proposed to exchange his son Yakov
on feldmarchal Paulus in soviet captivity.
> …who are the ‘menaces’ mentioned? Britain and the US maybe?
> Or just anyone who wasn’t Sovjet?
Exactly.
Flat contour figures were constructed everywhere.
and the one in the picture is a russian soldier drinking vodka.
I belive that stalin really loved kids, at least lenin did, in school i had to learn poems like that (translate it from my memory)
Oh great Lenin, he was so noble, smart and good.
Us, children, he would kindly take to his lap and tenderly fondle our head.
He would kindly look into our eyes and ask:”How is it going?”
“We have the best life in the world, your wishes have become true.
The government takes care of as and gives us palaces,
gives us camps and parks, gives us wellness and happiness
Yes it’s really better than in any poem!