Why people do not do it today? That was fun! The all union radio station used to transmit invigorating
sounds at 11 am and people started to stretch and do some physical exercises right at work.
Let's check out how Western photographers saw life of a Soviet child. Yasuhiko Miyajima took photos of everyday life of a Moscow girl Katya in 1987 within the framework of the project "Children of the World". Two years later Americans
republished the Japanese book and added comments concerning the life in the country. The book does not cover any politics: Katya has a lesson, Katya is in a clean spacious trolley-bus, Katya makes dumplings...
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Soviet military vehicles found in many
various places where nobody needs them...
Photos taken by
Eduard Gladkov.
Categories Automotive, Funny, History, Photos, Technology
In the time of the developed socialism many people dreamt about their own cars but couldn't afford them. They
saved money and waited in lines to buy a desired car. Some dreamers even dared to make cars themselves.
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The subterranean nuclear combat boat was probably the
most fabulous secret military project of the USSR.
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In the end of the 1970s - beginning of the 1980s all the world community was under the impact of Hollywood "Star Wars". At the same time under the iron curtain and high secrecy the Soviet "Evil Empire" was transforming the Hollywood
dreams into reality. Soviet cosmonauts flew into space armed with laser guns "blasters", new battle stations and space fighters were being designed and Soviet "laser tanks" were slowly crawling along the Earth...
Soviet Kaliningrad was pretty much different from Russian
Kaliningrad. Let's see some photos of the city how it used to look.
