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ZIL 112, 1951. A Soviet Russian racing car from their the Likhachev plant , which was also responsible for making government limousines. The race car was nick-named  “cyclops” because of its single central headlamp. The car's fibreglass bodywork imitated the GM La Sabre dream car designed by Harley Earl in 1950. It was powered by a ZIL V8 engine modified for racing
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picsfromsiberiangirl · 10 months
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Your Fav Soviet Aesthetics.
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December 24, 2021
CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story (2019)
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kropotkindersurprise · 8 months
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I was just watching a documentary on the US space program, and after the Soviet Union beat the americans to getting the first successful manned space flight, with Yuri Gagarin doing a full orbit of Earth, a year later the US finally managed to get their own first kosmonaut into orbit, John Glenn, who took these photographs of the Earth.
Now is it just me or is there a beautiful Hammer and Sickle cloud floating over the coast of Africa, just to rub in the fact that the USA lost the space race?
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katchwreck · 1 year
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A colorized photo of a Red guard stationed at an armoured train during the Civil Class War in Russia.
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bobbyzombiegg · 10 months
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A funny thing in bloodborne is that Molotov cocktails exist, which means that both WW1 and WW2 happened in the bloodborne timeline. Molotov cocktails are named after Vyacheslav Molotov, a Soviet Minister. During the Winter war between the Soviets and the Finns, Molotov claimed that the bombs they were dropping over Finland were actually humanitarian food deliveries, for their starving neighbors. In response, the Finn's named Molotov cocktails after Molotov to mock him. They said it was "a drink to go with his food parcels". Molotov was also extremely important in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany just before WW2. Thus, these events had to have happened for Molotov Cocktails to be named so in Bloodborne. This is a joke obviously, don't take it seriously.
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THE COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE EASTERN FRONT -- MAN VERSUS NATURE.
PIC INFO: Resolution at 1600x1067 -- Spotlight on a composite photograph titled "Reindeer Yasha beyond the Arctic Circle," World War II, Murmansk Area, USSR, c. 1941. 📸: Yevgeny Khaldei.
MINI OVERVIEW: "World War II planes bomb a hillside while a shellshocked reindeer looks on. The stark interface between the killing machines of man and the natural grandeur and beauty of the reindeer was not "natural."
Yevgeny Khaldei, the famous Soviet photographer who took this photo, frequently staged or manipulated his photos to (as he defended the practice) enhance and strengthen the “truth” of the visual moment."
-- RARE HISTORICAL PHOTOS, "Reindeer in Murmansk," 1941
Source: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/reindeer-murmansk-1941.
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greater-than-the-sword · 10 months
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See this little guy?
Well I have a whole little collection of matroshkyas because when I was 9 I thought they were the cutest thing since hello kitty, and so my grandma got it into her head that because I wanted a matroshkya ONE TIME therefore I was going to get one every year for the rest of time...
Well today I decided to give away one of my... extra... dolls to @littlebluebarista, when she promptly turned it over and found this inscription on the bottom:
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Well that's a new one.
The doll is officially older than me and I have no idea how it got to the US, but @littlebluebarista encouraged me to keep it because it's a historical artifact, I guess
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socialismforall · 2 months
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The great comrade Lenin, master strategist & theorist of the revolutionary Marxist Bolsheviks & co-founder of the USSR, died 100 years ago today.
We honor his contributions by continuing to wage a correct & determined struggle for the abolition of capitalism & the building of socialism & communism.
"Lenin" by Langston Hughes:
Lenin walks around the world. Frontiers cannot bar him. Neither barracks nor barricades impede. Nor does barbed wire scar him.
Lenin walks around the world. Black, brown, and white receive him. Language is no barrier. The strangest tongues believe him.
Lenin walks around the world. The sun sets like a scar. Between the darkness and the dawn There rises a red star.
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soapdispensersalesman · 10 months
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poz-patrol · 6 months
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scifimagpie · 1 year
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Reminder that genocide in Ukraine is ongoing. Contact your representative (especially since the vote's about to happen in the US) and nag them about continuing funding to Ukraine. I know winter is going to put a strain on things financially, but that's not Ukraine's fault.
And if anyone questions the use of the term "genocide", that's what my friend in Kyiv used for terminology, so let's skip the discourse on that one. Or, you can just watch this video on what exactly happened in Bucha, and the mass graves, and then maybe we can argue about niceties of language.
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Please do not stop giving a shit about Ukraine. These are not "blue-eyed blond people problems"; Ukrainians have been under cultural attack and assault from Russia since the days of the Soviet Union's colonialization and invasion. Please give a shit about the world outside North America.
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picsfromsiberiangirl · 7 months
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House From 1944.
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i-merani · 11 months
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Today, May 18th, the anniversary of the mass deportation of the Crimean Tatars (Qirimlar), the indigenous population of the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine, is commemorated. On 18-20 May 1944, the whole nation of around 200,000 Crimean Tatars was forcibly deported to Central Asia, mostly to Uzbekistan by the Soviet regime. Nearly 8,000 of them died during the deportation and tens of thousands perished subsequently in the exile due to harsh conditions.
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dolorygloria · 4 months
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Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (В бой идут одни старики, 1974)
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katchwreck · 5 months
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On January 26, 1924, by resolution of the Second All-Union Congress of Soviets, the city of Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in honor of V.I. Lenin, who died a few days earlier.
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