#eastern bloc

[easternblocrelics]

Somewhere in Czechoslovakia Color slide 1970s

[ohsalome]

(stolen from twitter)

[szollibisz]

blue hour mission break time

this took way too long but i'm very happy with it <3

[picsfromsiberiangirl]

Coming Home.

[irondeterrent]

Soviet MiG-23M in flight in 1989

[opendirectories]

[officialromaniantranslatiuni]

[songs-of-the-east]

Tajik Girls Dancing

[pawelhryniewicz]

Szczecin, ul. świętego Jana Bosko  

[ubetterburnwitch]

I keep thinking what the ethel cain lore would look like if she lived in soviet europe instead

[easternblocrelics]

Somewhere in the Romanian mountains Color negative 1970s

[ohsalome]

[szollibisz]

So much romanticization of commie blocks, and yet we neglect their rural sister: the humble kádár cube

[picsfromsiberiangirl]

Forgotten In Snow.

- 20 C.

[palominocorn]

Y'all, if you wouldn't reblog from someone with a swastika icon (and why would you do that), then don't reblog from someone with a hammer and sickle icon. It's really that simple.

I know it's tempting, as people who have never lived under the USSR, to assume that everything you learned about the horrors that happened behind the Iron Curtain was just capitalist propaganda, but as someone whose family lived it? It was worse than what high school social studies taught you.

The hammer and sickle is a symbol of state terror. Of genocide. Of bigotry. Of too many abuses to list. It's a symbol drenched in fear and blood and pain.

And it's not a symbol that you can reclaim. We, the survivors and descendants of the communist bloc, are the ones who decide whether we can turn it into a symbol of resistance, and we have decided: no. The wounds are too raw and the fear is too deep.

To the people actually affected by the hammer and sickle, it is still a symbol of violence. Put it down. Leave it be. Let us recover.

[wintvies]

can you guys guess where i’m sitting

ps: ignore the cracks near the heater thx