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Poster created by the Soviet publisher Khudozhnik RSFSR in 1975. The poster headline reads "Pop Music." The poster criticizes the trend of Protestant churches luring people into church by using popular music.
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Support Bunker, marked ”52” in the white circular design and also designated as “21” on an old – no doubt original – white, metal sign. The white circular numbering might be an inventory marking from after the base was decommissioned.
A symbol of a siren, a great relic from the Cold War era. East Germany 1960. Screen print on vinyl -
Here on streetview you can see the workers are actually fleeing a giant Lenin!
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The Soviet space program comprised the rocketry and space exploration programs conducted by the former Soviet Union (USSR) from the 1930s until its dissolution in 1991. Over its sixty-year history, this primarily classified military program was responsible for a number of pioneering accomplishments in space flight.
The Soviet era transformed the city into a modern industrial metropolis of over a million people, developed according to the prominent Armenian architect Alexander Tamanian's designs.
Tamanian incorporated national traditions with contemporary urban construction. His design presented a radial-circular arrangement that overlaid the existing city.
The Opera House, built between 1926 and 1953, is in the centre of this photo.
The national flag of the former Soviet Union consists of a golden star above a crossed hammer and sickle, in the upper hoist canton. The star represents the Communist party, and the hammer and sickle represent the workers. The flag was officially abandoned on Christmas Day 1991, but can still be seen at various historic locations.
The Battle of Berlin was one of the bloodiest operations in history, with an estimated 360,000 Soviet and 320,000 German military casualties.Civilian casualties are unknown and occasionally remains are still uncovered by construction. The Third Reich, meant to last 1000 years and bring glory to the Germanic Race, only lasted a dozen years and ended with appropriate Wagnerian destruction: 7-9 million dead, all major German cities destroyed by fighting or bombing. This memorial was built in the Tiergarten immediately after WWII using stone from the Riech Chancellery. Though the land was in Allied territory after the Yalta Agreement, the Soviets were given this memorial to commemorate their sacrifice, a noble gesture even as the Cold War heated up.
Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
The Soviet space program comprised the rocketry and space exploration programs conducted by the former Soviet Union (USSR) from the 1930s until its dissolution in 1991. Over its sixty-year history, this primarily classified military program was responsible for a number of pioneering accomplishments in space flight.
Tetris. We've all played it. We've all had that addiction at one point, and it's still ready to re-get hold of you any time you give it the chance.
Obviously a lot of the credit to Tetris being the phenomenon it is the fact it came bundled with Game Boy's, or actually...a lot of the credit for Game Boy's success is thanks to Tetris, had Nintendo not managed to convince the license holders in Soviet Russia to allow them to use Tetris then things could have been a lot different for the Game Boy, and perhaps Tetris would not of had a platform to kick start it into super stardom.
Such a simple yet captivating puzzle game, that really needs no further explanation.
You'll find it hard to find a single video game platform that "Tetris" hasn't been on, and I continue to keep ending up with more and more versions of it as time goes on with no regrets.
...and who can forget the original "Tetris - Type A" theme on Game Boy, a constant song that comes up when my minds on shuffle and I need something random to hum.
College Humour "Tetris God" --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alw5hs0chj0
Mega 64 "Tetris" --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0R9QtAEiQ4
G4TV Icons "Tetris" --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WJ4jfr56Io
Soviet signs are very simple. It's unremarkable, but that's the point.
Also, I ask you, what kind of society needs flowers 24 hours a day?
Nobody dared to depict Com Lenin like this during the Sovit era, but things have changed in the post Soviet Russia and CIS countries. The statues of Communist stalwarts now finds place in museums..they are portrayed in bad taste in T-shirts and other souvenirs sold through Internet and shops in the Russia and other CIS countries.
I found this in a souvinir shop in front of Moscow University.
The Soviet space program comprised the rocketry and space exploration programs conducted by the former Soviet Union (USSR) from the 1930s until its dissolution in 1991. Over its sixty-year history, this primarily classified military program was responsible for a number of pioneering accomplishments in space flight.
The bronze soldier on top of the Sowjetisches Ehrenmal in Berlin.
The Soviet War Memorial (Sowjetisches Ehrenmal) in Berlin's Tiergarten was built following the Second World War to commemorate the lives of more than 300,000 Soviet soldiers killed in the conflict, 20,00 of whom died in the Battle of Berlin.
The column was designed by Nicolai Sergiejev and was unveiled on November 7, 1945 - the anniversary of the start of the October Revolution in Russia - and is made from marble taken from the headquarters of the Chancellor of the Third Reich.
Atop the column stands a bronze sculpture of a Soviet soldier by Lew Kerbel, while around the memorial stand two Soviet tanks, supposed to be the first to reach the city. The monument also serves as a cemetery for around 2,500 soldiers killed in the war.
The monument was in West Berlin while the city was divided by Soviet soldier were allowed access.
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A New Soviet Hero
On April 14, 1961, the headline of Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party newspaper, shouted out the news
Moscow Welcomes a Hero
His Heroic Achievement will be Remembered for Centuries Ahead!
A Remarkable Victory of Our Motherland Russia Inspires All Soviet People to New Heights in Labor Productivity
In Red Square, the largest crowd to gather since celebrations marking the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945 gathered to cheer Yuri Gagarin. The 27 year-old first cosmonaut arrived by plane. As his plane circled to approach the airport, he looked out the window and gasped - the streets of Moscow were filled with people streaming toward the Kremlin.
At Vnukovo Airport, the cheering began. It followed Gagarin's motorcade across the drab city to Red Square and the top of Lenin's Tomb, customary site of major ceremonies. There Khrushchev presented Gagarin with a new award - Pilot Cosmonaut of the Soviet Union. As Gagarin waved to the roaring crowd, the Soviet leader stood beaming at the propaganda victory his country had achieved over the U.S.
Faceless in the vast crowd stood Korolev, the man whose dream, genius, and hard work had made Gagarin's flight possible. Khrushchev had ordered that Korolev ride well back in the motorcade, far from himself and Gagarin, and that he not wear his many medals. The world was to be kept ignorant of Korolev's achievements. This was to be a victory of Khrushchev's leadership and the superior Soviet system, not of one man.
Meanwhile, in America
"We are behind...the news will get worse before it gets better, and it will be some time before we catch up."
-President John F. Kennedy, April 12, 1961
At 4 a.m. on April 12, 1961, John "Shorty" Powers, Public Affairs Officer for NASA's Space Task Group, groped for his ringing phone. The voice at the other end of the line demanded NASA's reaction to the latest Soviet space achievement. The groggy Powers told the reporter, "We're all asleep down here." His unfortunate choice of words was widely quoted. NASA and the new Kennedy Administration had been asleep, so the Soviet Union had again beat the U.S. to a major milestone in space.
President Kennedy's newly appointed NASA Administrator, James Webb, went on national television a few hours later to congratulate the Soviets. Meanwhile, many in Congress began to clamor for President Kennedy to do something dramatic. At the time, Congress debated funding for Project Apollo, a proposed program of Earth-orbital missions meant to follow Project Mercury. Some demanded that Apollo be diverted to a more ambitious goal - an American on the Moon.
I got this in the mail today. No idea what it is, what it does, or how it works (nor do I intend to). I'm thinking it's morphine and some antibiotics, but in Metro the most logical explanation for the effects would be a blood-loss stopper and a pain-reliever. Give you opinions on what it may be, and tell me what it is IRL if you know.
Russian samovar "Ivan Drago".
In the beginning it was a samovar (a national water-boiling device) presented to our friend's grandma by a trade minister of Chekhoslovakia in 1968...
(all the handles are actually black - by some reason we haven't taken a picture of it when it was finished, so lots of masking tape could be seen here)