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• Stalin’s Lost Railway

  Published: August 22, 2007, 6:56 am

  Tags: History, Photos, Technology, Abandoned, Railroad, Soviet Era, Trains

  with any other Russian Federal Railway System and the purpose of it still is not very clear, so as a senseless toy it way abandoned pretty soon and now rusts accessible only with a helicopter.

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• USSR. Living in the Fifties.

  Published: August 21, 2007, 8:39 am

  Tags: Society, Culture, History, Photos, 60s, Sixties, Soviet Era, Soviet People, Soviet Union, Ussr

  More pictures portraying life in the Soviet era, submitted by our visitor Firsak. We’ve already seen life in the USSR in the seventies and sixties and now come the fifties. See also: USSR in the 70-s, part 1 USSR in the 70-s, part 2 USSR in the 70-s, part 3 USSR in the 60-s, part 1 (more…)

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• A Soviet Shelter

  Published: September 3, 2007, 10:16 am

  Tags: Society, History, 70s, 80s, Cold War, Moscow, Soviet Era

  is a shelter back from the Soviet Era and Cold War when every house had a shelter nearby in case of America attacking. Most of the things there are 20-30 years old, including the batteries, lamps etc. The glass retorts with different chemicals were used for testing the air on the surface and determining the type of attack - different chemicals

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• Russian Fashion at 1979

  Published: September 3, 2007, 1:53 pm

  Tags: Funny, Society, History, Photos, 70s, Russian Fashion, Russian Girls, Soviet Era

  These are scans from The Only Soviet Fashion Magazine called “Fashion” back from 1979… (more…)

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• Soviet Lawnmower

  Published: September 11, 2007, 7:05 am

  Tags: Funny, Exclusive, History, Photos, Self Made, Soviet Era

  to imagine, that people of Soviet Union didn’t have access to many simple appliances many Americans or Western Europeans used every day. For example such a simple thing as a lawnmower was totally absent in Soviet Russian homes. First of all because only village citizens had a right to have a private house - citizens didn’t live in

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• Some Monuments of Moscow

  Published: September 11, 2007, 6:39 am

  Tags: Funny, Photos, Russian Art, Monuments, Moscow, Russian Art, Soviet Era

  This is a small review of some monuments in Moscow, Russia. The one above is probably can be called a monument for the Donkey from “The Shrek” movies, the resembles is astonishing. (more…)

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• Abandoned Soviet Trains In Belarus

  Published: September 11, 2007, 3:27 pm

  Tags: History, Photos, Technology, Abandoned, Railroad, Soviet Era, Trains

  We’ve already posted the pictures of abandoned trains of Soviet Era in Abkhazia and Northern Siberian lands of Russia. Here are some new shots of such a place in Brest (Belarus). (more…)

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• Stay Protected: Soviet Way

  Published: September 11, 2007, 6:37 pm

  Tags: Society, Culture, Exclusive, History, Photos, Technology, Russian People, Soviet Era

  is no leisure intercourse in Soviet Russia”, probably it is less known for the rest of the world. It meant that Soviet citizens have made this only for get some kids. But recently it has been known that there was a whole bunch of those little thingies available for some sale in Russia, though they couldn’t be bought freely, just

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• Chernobyl Yesterday and Today: The Video

  Published: September 16, 2007, 1:07 pm

  Tags: Society, Exclusive, Video, Chernobyl, Disaster, Soviet Era, Ukraine

  This is an amateur video of Chernobyl area today and before and during the nuclear disaster 20 years ago. We’ve had a few sets of contemporary Chernobyl like this and this but this is the first video. Also see the strange wild animals at the end of the video - they look like horses but disproportionately big heads, looking like big-sized

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• Soviet Weddings

  Published: September 30, 2007, 12:03 pm

  Tags: Funny, Society, History, Photos, Russian Art, Russian Brides, Russian Girls, Russian Weddings, Soviet Era

  This is a gallery of the paintings depicting Soviet weddings. No much photos left from those times, but there are some drawings left. (more…)

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• The Sputnik Cult

  Published: October 5, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Funny, Society, Photos, Technology, Russian Architecture, Russian Space Program, Soviet Era, Space, Sputnik

  impact on all the areas of Soviet life. For example many architects wanted to commemorate Sputneg in their architecture, so many of the houses built that year carry the simplified Sputnik logo on them. Here is some examples:

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• Secret Brain Lab

  Published: October 26, 2007, 6:02 pm

  Tags: Funny, Science, History, Photos, Fiction, Gorbachev, Human Brain, Russian Army, Russian Science, Soviet Era

  You can see even the last Soviet leader Gorbachev that was left in rush - it was the time of his rule when the lab was closed and sealed from civilians.

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• An Abandoned Horror

  Published: October 30, 2007, 11:44 am

  Tags: Funny, History, Photos, Society, Abandoned Places, Horror, Russian Art, Soviet Era

  Well, I have seen a lot of photos of abandoned places in Russia, but this one is something special. It looks like some unknown lifeforms have invaded the area after people abandoned it, or did they abandon because of the invasion has started? (more…)

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• Soviet Era Victims Museum

  Published: November 4, 2007, 2:44 pm

  Tags: History, Photos, Russian Art, Russian Monuments, Soviet Era, Stalin, Monuments, Russian Art

  different monuments from the Soviet Era stand, collected from different communist party locations and around it there is a stone storage for hundreds of stone heads looking from out of the bars at those communist art examples with despair. The Stalin statue by the way is already without a nose.

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• First McDonalds Rest in Russia, 20 Years Ago

  Published: November 11, 2007, 9:34 am

  Tags: Funny, History, Society, Mcdonalds, Pepsi, Soviet Union, 80s, Soviet Era

  from the Communist Party of Soviet Union to open its first rest in Soviet Russia. It was not only the first McDonalds but generally the first fast food place in Russia ever. People from all over the Russia when visiting Moscow wanted to visit this “pearl of the capitalism” so there were literary a few mile long lines of the visitors

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