The Soviet Lookbok

This is the example of what Soviet Russian citizens could order by mail from their state - the only vendor in the country. It’s no surprise that literary EVERY house in the country had something from those items.

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Soviet High-Tech Workers

In Soviet Russia high-tech workers were highly praised. They spent a lot of time resting by the sea, eating in the places where food really tasted good and worked on different space stuff or something.

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Russian Woodcutters Celebrate

Thirty eight years ago, in 1970 there was a hundred year anniversary of Vladimir Lenin, the guy who inspired Russian people to overthrow the previous Tsar government in Russia in 1917. He was a real icon for many Russians and so in one Siberian town some woodcutters decided to celebrate this anniversary by cutting all the trees on a big field leaving only those that would form a really huge message “100 Years to Lenin”. There were no Google Earth back there, no satellite photos on Internet, no Internet itself, so they didn’t do it for some Internet trick, like “See what we have down pointing your sat pictures browser to …..”. The real reasons are not clear and forgotten now, maybe they got an order from Moscow to make such a big message for American spy satellites, maybe it was their own wish to create something that cannot be observed from the Earth by a regular person. Anyways now, 30 years later we can see it. You can see it from Google yourself following this link.

You can see it on google earth yourself.

Unique Shots

These two photos are pretty unique. The first shows the tradition of Russian astronauts, according to it just before taking their seats inside of the space ship they have to take a leak upon the wheel of the bus which takes them to the launching site. I don’t know who started this tradition but they say all of them do, including these two from the latest Russian space program launch. This is the first time it has been caught on film for already 40 years of space launches.

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USSR Again

Another set of photos from the Soviet Russia…

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