"If this is freedom, then what is prison?" Soviet Union 1968

{1990/2023} Swallowed by The End of History

Zoogeographical Educational Map of the USSR by N.M. Buchunov, 1928

(via US Library of Congress)

Iryna Hurvych, {1987} Біла арена (The White Arena)

"Salute to wheat growers!", soviet poster, 1983

"The Soviet space program used completely different controls and instruments from American spacecraft. One of the most interesting navigation instruments onboard Soyuz spacecraft was the Globus, which used a rotating globe to indicate the spacecraft's position above the Earth. This navigation instrument was an electromechanical analog computer that used an elaborate system of gears, cams, and differentials to compute the spacecraft's position. Officially, the unit was called a "space navigation indicator" with the Russian acronym ИНК (INK)"

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What about facts about the Soviet Union?

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (or "CCCP" for short) was a country akin to a political amoeba that ingested numerous countries across eastern Europe from the 1920s to the 1990s, when its leader Gorbachev dissolved the country so that he could get McDonalds. Having Gorbed the country with his sphere of influence or, "Gorb Orb," the country reverted back into a Gorbillion (15) distinct nations. Martin Scorsese later made a movie about Gorbachev, which was immortalized in shoe tags.

The Soviet Union was considered a threat to America because while America was capitalist, the Soviet Union was communist. This means that while America, the land of the free, was ruled with an iron fist by the rich, the Soviet Union, land of the oppressed, was ruled with an iron fist by people pretending to care about the poor. This resulted in the creation of NATO, the National Organization of Theater Owners, and the Eastern Bloc, which was sort of like Tetris, I assume.

The Soviet Union is most famous today for having a pretty cool national anthem that sounds way better than America's, which was based on a drinking song from a strip club. The melody is still used for the Russian National Anthem with new lyrics because it just sounded good.

The Soviet Union had a long history of really horrible leaders including Stalin, who invented Stalinism, Kruschev, who got banned from Disneyland, and Brezhnev, whose eyebrows were considered a first degree global disaster by the International Concern for Grooming. This leadership evolved the intelligence service of the KGB into a rival to the CIA so that we could have spy movies and charlatans who like to imply they were spies but were really just assholes.

With the cold war over and the Soviet Union gone, the region is now a stable and peaceful place with no countries that pose any threats to anyone, with nearly 70% of its former nuclear stockpile more or less accounted for.

1989

Batman (Red Son) commission

Orbital Strike

“No God here!” USSR 1975

{1990/2023} red flags/herrings/threads Swallowed by The End of History

made for DAMzine #19: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/5d4f3ede08.html

Semen Huietskyi, Vyacheslav Levandovskiy & Yevhenii Horbach, {1935} Тук-тук і Жук (Tuk-tuk and Zhuk) [incomplete]

Photographer Frederic Chaubin

"Happy New Year!", soviet postcard, 1971