#soviet-union

[ink-the-artist]

Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an  adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol 

[scrollwriter]

History of the Cold War. II.

The consolidation of Soviet controls in eastern Europe continued, which culminated in the coup in Czechoslovakia in February 1948 under the auspices of Soviet Union, and thereby eliminating the last non-fully communist government in eastern Europe. Non-communist leaders in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania had been eliminated by terrorism, faked trials and political…

[zvyozdochka]

Waiting for spring. Photo by Igor Gnevashev, USSR, 1980s.

[antiwaradvocates]

New Year's Eve in the dormitory, Leningrad, 1983 (photo by Yuri Belinsky)

[dulioon]

playing

[opendirectories]

[thoughtportal]

Happy Lunar New Year!

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[degeneratedworker]

"Cellar with supplies" Soviet Union c. 1970s

[lionofchaeronea]

Dusk, Mikhail Guzhavin, 1927

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

1994: Crimean Tatars mark the 50th anniversary of russia deporting their entire population from their homeland. From the 18th-20th of May 1944 the Tatars were loaded onto cattle trains and removed from their native land.

2024 is the 80th anniversary of Stalin's Crimean genocide.

Since 2014 Crimea has again been occupied by russia.

[scrollwriter]

History of the Cold War. I.

The end of the Second World War left Great Britain as no longer being a great power while it was practically bankrupt at the end of the war, and then increasingly less powerful during the process of decolonization that followed. The Soviet Union suffered heavier losses than any other country in the war, as they had been engaged in most of the fighting for the Allied cause. The industrial centres…

[mayanhandballcourt]

Photographer Frederic Chaubin

[zvyozdochka]

Soviet New Year tree lights, 1960s.

[ink-the-artist]

id like for there to be a brutalist cathedral with little brutalist gargoyles :)

[reactor-four-official]

Stained glass windows in the administrative building of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was one of the largest in the Soviet Union and the poster child of the Soviet nuclear power industry. As such, little expense was spared on details like these windows.

The Soviet Union often used motifs in abstract art to promote Communism and laude their successes.

For more info, check out my reblog of this post.