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Not so long ago, in the times of the USSR, doctors used to apply various methods of treatment. Some of them seem to be rather bizarre today.

People often preferred ethnoscience to modern medicine. Well, this is the selection of Soviet photos from LIFE magazine of 1970.

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These barracks had been used for their intended purpose but in 1996 the army left this place forever. Since then it's been a mess there. The barracks are located in Belgorod-Dnestrovsky, 80 km (49 miles) from Odessa. They are

called "Alexandrovskiye" after the emperor Alexander. But today everything is abandoned and plundered. Below are photos of the plundered Soviet barracks that had been the splendid imperial buildings once.

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In the USSR even fabrics were used for propaganda. People ate on communist tablecloths, slept on communist sheets and hung communist curtains in their rooms.

It seems crazy today, but such method of brainwashing effectively contributed to the huge propagandistic system of revolutionary communists.

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Howard Sochurek was a photographer for Life magazine. He joined Life in 1950 and worked in many

countries including the Soviet Union. His photos of Soviet airplanes taken in 1958 are shown below.

Categories Culture, Economics, History, Other, Photos, Russian Nature, Russian People, Society

Kholmsk is a city in the Far East of Russia located on the south-western coast of Sakhalin island. It contains two sea ports that are never

frozen and was founded in 1870. The place is inhabited by followers of different confessions such as orthodoxy, catholicism, Buddhism, etc.

Categories History, Photos, russian army, Russian Nature, Russian People, Society

Contemporary news agencies are often blamed for photo manipulations. It started long ago in fact. Back in the times of WWII graphic artists learnt to distor reality and show what they wanted to show but not what really had happened. Thus, they often added excessive Nazi atrocities, terrible ruins and looting to fill papers with horrifying images. However we do not have to exclude that such atrocities and other terrific events could

really happen, it was just difficult to catch them with a camera due to their spontaneity. Photographers were rarely in a right time and in a right place. It's today when everyone has a cameraphone we can shoot everything we see. Photo manipulations as an instrument of propaganda is claimed to be natural. Below you will see some photos taken during WWII that underwent montage for the purpose of propaganda.

Categories Culture, Economics, History, Photos, Russian Art, Russian People, Science, Technology

Bobruisk is a city in Belarus. The place had been inhabited by people since the fifth-sixth centuries. The city was first mentioned in 1387 as part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In 1792 it became part of the Russian

Empire and was included into the borders of Belarus in 1795. Today it is actually the largest city in the country. The photos made in the Soviet epoch show what the life in the city at those times was like.

Categories Culture, History, Photos, Russian People, Society

Soviet censorship did not permit nude bodies on TV screens as a rule of a thumb. Most of these shots are exactly from the movies of the 1960-70s (and even earlier

periods). At that time western movies were not shown at all. That's why students came back to movie theaters for several times to see those scenes again and again..

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The Soviet era was full of scientific achivements that became foundation for further Russian science and technology for many years ahead. Some of the experiments might seem to be almost shocking

today. The most notable faces from the Soviet world of science and technology of 1959, research institutes, interesting scientific objects and experiments are inside the post.

Categories Automotive, Business, Culture, History, Photos, Technology

We thought that the first SUV was invented in the USSR. But now we are sure it really was! In far 1955! This unusual project of an all-terrain vehicle was made in the Soviet Union, as we mentioned - in 1955. This

car was designed for needs of a countryside, it could considerably help mechanics in their work. GAZ-M73 (1955) - a prototype of a small four-wheel drive machine developed for soviet farm chiefs.

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