NEW EPISODE - Growing up in #Soviet #Ukraine in the 1960s and 70s
Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode447/
#Lviv #coldwar #childhood #Sovietunion
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NEW EPISODE - Growing up in #Soviet #Ukraine in the 1960s and 70s
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#Lviv #coldwar #childhood #Sovietunion
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The #Antonov #An225 #Mriya is one of the most extraordinary #aircraft ever built. Developed by #AntonovDesignBureau in the 1980s, this massive, six-engine #TransportAircraft was created to support the #Soviet space programme and transport #Buran #spacecraft.
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NEW EPISODE - Growing up in #Soviet #Ukraine in the 1960s and 70s
Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode447/
#Lviv #coldwar #childhood #Sovietunion
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In this black-and-white photograph, strong contrasts between shadow and bright light draw the viewer into the triangular passage at the center of the frame. The geometric metal structure creates a clear perspective that leads the eye forward. Once part of a closed industrial complex, this space is now an open walkway connecting different areas. The worn brick walls reflect the site’s industrial past, while the modern lighting highlights its transformation. The image captures a quiet moment of transition, where old architecture and contemporary urban space meet.
Walkway
📷 Telliskivi
#tallinn #soviet #industrial #urbanlandscape #architecture #photography
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NEW EPISODE - Growing up in #Soviet #Ukraine in the 1960s and 70s
Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode447/
#Lviv #coldwar #childhood #Sovietunion
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I started on the second set of 15mm WWII Soviet Cossack riflemen.
#MiniaturePainting #Miniatures #Wargaming #Tabletop #TabletopWargaming #15mm #15mmWargaming #WWII #EasternFront #FlamesOfWar #BattlefrontMiniatures #Battlegroup #Stalingrad #Soviet #RedArmy #Cossack
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Did the #RoyalNavy tap #Soviet undersea comms cables during the #coldwar?
Listen to an officer on HMS Valiant allude to this. It's here around the 32 min mark. coldwarconversations.com/episode388/
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NEW EPISODE - Growing up in #Soviet #Ukraine in the 1960s and 70s
Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode447/
#Lviv #coldwar #childhood #Sovietunion
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#vss365 #Epstein #Corner #Fireside
Looks like old #propaganda from Korea & Vietnam to #Soviet Operation Trust fed into a #machine: hit #random temp & see what comes out, like #microwaved ingredients instead of old-fashioned slow baked rehash we knew. #Amtrak food never was very good.
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“#soviet #russia #dj” / “Soviet Funk Mix / Советский фанк-микс Russia | DJ Akira Yamanaka @Upstairs Records & Bar” (2 users) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EKDEjZqd0&t=2117s
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NEW EPISODE - Growing up in #Soviet #Ukraine in the 1960s and 70s
Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode447/
#Lviv #coldwar #childhood #Sovietunion
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Not your typical horror story, but horrific enough: TO THE SUCCESS OF OUR HOPELESS CAUSE won the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction in 2025, and it’s well-deserved. If we pay attention, there are lessons to learn. #soviet #history #freedom #nonfiction #booksky
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Soviet partisans in the struggle to liberate the Crimea from Nazi occupation. 1944
#Soviet #Partisans #Crimea #USSR #SovietUnion #Victory #Liberation
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Warsaw street filled with protesters.
Today in #LaborHistory 3/13/1968: Student demonstrations & #strike in Warsaw against communist regime led to #riots after #Soviet withdrawal of diplomatic relations with #Israel in protest of 1967 war led to antisemitic purges.
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The #WinterWar, i.e., the #Soviet invasion of #Finland, ended on #ThisDayInHistory in 1940 with the signing of the #MoscowPeaceTreaty. This cost Finland half of #WestKarelia (#EastKarelia was already in Russia). It was in #Karelia that most folk tales in the #Kalevala were found.
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An abandoned Soviet-era hotel courtyard, featuring an overgrown fountain, palm trees, and decaying columns.
A grand, abandoned sanatorium foyer in Tskaltubo, Georgia, features ornate columns and a large arched entrance. Peeling paint highlights its decay.
An abandoned room features peeling yellow walls and a geometric floor. Multiple arched doorways open to other spaces.
A long, abandoned corridor with peeling paint, tall columns, broken doors, and overgrown vegetation outside.
Sanatorium Tbilisi is one of the large Soviet-era resort buildings in the spa town of Tskaltubo in western Georgia.
Stepping through the grand entrance leads to the plaza, an enclosed courtyard with a central fountain that is surrounded by palm trees. An oasis […]
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May Day celebrations in Tashkent, capital of the Uzbekistan Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR. 1978
#Tashkent #Uzbek #Uzbekistan #Soviet #Socialist #Republic #USSR #SovietUnion #MayDay
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#MikhailGorbachev — the last #Soviet leader and the only one born in the #USSR — was elected to the General Secretary position on #ThisDayInHistory in 1985. His slow move towards #SocialDemocracy, and reform projects #glasnost & #perestroika, accidentally undermined the state.
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Photograph of a young Mollie Steimer, not smiling, with short, dark hair.
Today in #LaborHistory 3/11/1919: Ukrainian Jewish anarchist Mollie Steimer arrested in NYC for #riot & #sedition. Deported to #Soviet #Russia, where she fought for rights of anarchist political prisoners. Deported again, this time to western Europe. Had to flee #Nazis.
#anarchism #ukraine #prison
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The Last Gasp of William Schwarzfeller: Soviet Espionage and the Cruelties of Stalin's Gulags by Peter Buck Feller
Get your copy: https://bit.ly/4k333VG #Soviet #Espionage #Gulag
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Soviet and Russian theatre and film actress Zinaida Mikhailovna Kiriyenko (1933-2022). Also, singer, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR.
#ZinaidaKiriyenko #Soviet #Russian #Actress #Theatre #Film #USSR #SovietUnion #Russia
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This photograph captures the meeting of two eras within the same urban space. In the foreground, massive Soviet-era district heating pipes stand as weathered remnants of industrial infrastructure. Behind them rises a modern residential building with clean lines and a contemporary façade. The contrast between the rough, aging pipes and the ordered geometry of the new building highlights the layered history of the city. What was once purely functional infrastructure becomes almost sculptural in the frame. Presented in black and white, the image emphasizes texture, form, and the quiet tension between past and present in the evolving urban landscape.
A Dialogue of Urban Layers
📷 Lilleküla
#tallinn #modern #architecture #soviet #urbanlandscape #photography
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Carlo Tresca (1879-1943), side profile, in suit and tie, with goatee and mustache. He was an Italian-born American anarchist, newspaper editor, and labor agitator. By Bellino Photo Studios - http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/TrescaCarlo.htm / http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/TrescaCarlo/tresca-1910.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12636517
Today in #LaborHistory 3/9/1879: #IWW organizer Carlo Tresca was born. Opposed #fascism, #mafia & #Soviet #Communism. Helped organize Patterson Silk #Strike. Assassinated 1943 by mafia.
#workingclass #union #anarchism
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How was International Women's Day Created by Communists? #history #soviet #internationalwomensday
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These three photographs show the main electrical room of an old manufacturing factory — the technical heart of the building that has remained largely unchanged for decades. The equipment and interior likely date back to the 1960s–1970s, reflecting the industrial aesthetic of the era: large metal cabinets, simple warning signs, exposed cabling, and robust mechanical switches. Natural light entering through tall windows creates strong patterns of light and shadow, highlighting the geometry of the machinery and the worn surfaces of metal, plaster, and tile. The nearly monochrome environment emphasizes the purely functional nature of the space, where every element was designed for reliability and safety. Though rarely seen, rooms like this are an important part of industrial heritage — quiet spaces that have powered factory life for generations.
These three photographs show the main electrical room of an old manufacturing factory — the technical heart of the building that has remained largely unchanged for decades. The equipment and interior likely date back to the 1960s–1970s, reflecting the industrial aesthetic of the era: large metal cabinets, simple warning signs, exposed cabling, and robust mechanical switches. Natural light entering through tall windows creates strong patterns of light and shadow, highlighting the geometry of the machinery and the worn surfaces of metal, plaster, and tile. The nearly monochrome environment emphasizes the purely functional nature of the space, where every element was designed for reliability and safety. Though rarely seen, rooms like this are an important part of industrial heritage — quiet spaces that have powered factory life for generations.
These three photographs show the main electrical room of an old manufacturing factory — the technical heart of the building that has remained largely unchanged for decades. The equipment and interior likely date back to the 1960s–1970s, reflecting the industrial aesthetic of the era: large metal cabinets, simple warning signs, exposed cabling, and robust mechanical switches. Natural light entering through tall windows creates strong patterns of light and shadow, highlighting the geometry of the machinery and the worn surfaces of metal, plaster, and tile. The nearly monochrome environment emphasizes the purely functional nature of the space, where every element was designed for reliability and safety. Though rarely seen, rooms like this are an important part of industrial heritage — quiet spaces that have powered factory life for generations.
Time Machine
📷 Marja
#tallinn #soviet ##industrialheritage #conseptual #architecture #photography
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boxd.it/dqBrst @letterboxd.social #filmsky #amirkulov #kazakh #soviet #otrar #khan #scorsese #worldcinemaproject #criterion
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I’m honored to be featured in The Hague Online
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#TheHague #Netherlands #ExpatLife #InternationalCommunity #MigrationStories #LifeInTheNetherlands #CulturalIntegration #SovietHistory #Soviet #LifeBehindTheIronCurtain #LoveInCommunism #ExpatsAbroad #InternationalLife
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The 'Friendship of Nations' fountain in October Revolution Square (now Independence Square), Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, 1980s
#Kiev #Ukraine #Ukrainian #Soviet #Socialist #Republic #Maidan #Independence #Square #USSR #SovietUnion #October #Revolution
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"Glory to the valiant Navy—faithful guardian of the maritime borders of our Motherland!" Soviet poster featuring Kirov class cruisers. 1951
#Soviet #Navy #SovietNavy #USSR #SovietUnion #Defense #Defence #Kirov #Cruisers
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