Don’t know why but this was shared in a Middle East politics forum today. I looked at the pictures and I don’t know why but it was really interesting. For folks who were alive back then, did you imagine Soviet Union like this or no? https://www.vintag.es/2016/01/wonderful-color-photographs-capture.html
Very interesting. Some of those male bathing suits were atrocious! Not all that much different compared to the US during those times.
Most of what we saw of Russia, the entire Soviet Union for that matter, for the latter half of the last century was carried over from the days of the cold war. It seems that very little color photography escaped and we saw the USSR as only shades of gray as that entire nation had nothing colorful or joyful within.. There were no children playing or people smiling. Life magazine was always on the forefront of in depth photojournalism and I'm not surprised to see this now. We saw Khrushchev at a world's fair somewhere mocking Nixon as he showed him through a model house interior claiming average Americans did not live like that because Russians certainly did not. There certainly was darkness in Eastern Europe but our vision was skewed by the manufactured fear of the "Red Threat." A satirical Wendy's commercial from the eighties was so stereotypical of how we viewed the Soviets that I'm sure some older people thought it was real:
Apparently many people think that the Soviet Union was kinda like today's North Korea. The Stalin era was kinda close, but afterwards it was totally different.
WARNING! Nose-picker in a print dress in photo #13! WARNING! Children swimming in a pool of toxic waste in picture #24!
Will finally visit Moscow soon. Russia and Turkey will cancel Visa requirements soon.Either this summer or next I will visit Russian strip clubs. Lol.
I’d be more impressed if they weren’t grilling on what’s left of a shopping cart like a homeless person
Kind of reminds me of what we used to call walking the plank after a Jets game at Shea Stadium. The wooden planks from the stadium all the way to the parking lot and there was always some homeless guy with a King Kullen shopping cart hawking pretzels over charcoal. My Daddy always bought me one win or lose. Those pretzels were half burned and half soggy at the same time and tasted like lighter fluid. Don't ask me ask me how this culinary mastery was achieved. Sometimes I got a knish to mix it up a little.
Most tri-state area strip clubs are full of Russian strippers... you really don't have to go that far
Well Petro, I have Turkish friends who have both been to New Jersey strip clubs and Moscow strip clubs and they say there is no comparison. I frequent Shakers close to Metlife stadium and I have had my fair share of Russian/Ukranian chicks but I am told the clubs in Moscow is like heaven compared to beauty. Of course they are much pricey as well. Well I will be able to make a fair assessment in a year or two once visit Moscow but for now take my friends word for it. What does our resident strip club expert @Rollo Tomassi think I wonder.
In color it looks exactly like Brooklyn. The Soviet era of my child hood was in black and white. It looked more like Jersey.
