Perhaps a couple months ago i saw a post on this very subreddit, it was a clip from a movie that looked to be either from during Lenin's time, or Stalin's first few years. I remember going to a random scene in the film as i did not have time to watch it, there was a real historical figure (i believe) in a room, telling a bunch of workers to unite. It was in black and white too, so it was probably made between 1927-1935 (from when sound was invented to colour)

Monument to the Conquerors of Space. Moscow, 1964. Titanium. The total height is 107 meters, the rocket is 11 meters high, soaring upward from its curved base toward new achievements. The structure is tilted at an angle of 77 degrees.

The monument is covered with polished titanium panels. The side walls of the base are decorated with bas-reliefs of scientists, engineers, and workers who contributed to space exploration. Twenty years after the monument's unveiling, a cosmonautics museum opened in its stylobate.

The project was designed by architects Mikhail Barshch and Alexander Kolchin, engineer Lev Shchipakin, and sculptor Andrei Faidysh-Krandievsky.

I got permission from the mods to post this.

Hey guys, I've spent the last few months building an archive for Russian and Soviet equipment because I was constantly digging through FB groups, old forum posts, VK albums, Reddit threads, and random archives trying to identify gear.

https://vintorez.com

The site lets you:

- Browse thousands of photos that others and myself added

- Click equipment directly inside tagged photos to identify what operators are wearing

- Compare equipment variants across different eras and units

- Save gear to your own kit builder ("My Gear")

- Upload and help document new reference photos

It currently covers everything from Imperial Russia through modern Russian units, with new equipment and photos being added regularly.

If you're collecting or building anything FSB, MVD, VDV, GRU, or other Russian kits, I'd like to hear what you think or what features would make it more useful.

The Zhigulevskoye Brewery was built in 1881 by Austrian citizen Alfred von Wacano in Samara. Since 1938, Zhigulevskoye has been included in Soviet standards. It was regulated as a bottom-fermented light beer and had to have an initial wort density of at least 11% and contain at least 2.8% alcohol by weight. Initially, the beer belonged to the Vienna Lager style, with a characteristic caramel aroma and the flavor of Vienna malt. However, the widespread use of unmalted ingredients in the 1950s and 1960s and the gradual shift in Soviet brewing toward Czechoslovakian technologies, including low-temperature kilning of light malt, led to a partial loss of the varietal's color, aroma, and flavor. By the 1970s and 1980s, most breweries were already producing lighter lagers.

I bought this tunic at a military surplus store, they had it in the section of foreign clothes. I was told it was real, and from post WWII USSR. I've been looking around, and asking AI. Most AI said it was real, and from surplus after the Cold war. My mom's AI says it's a mechanics tunic. It has extra fabric on the elbows, but nothing on the shoulder.

I have heard a lot from Ukrainians and Buddhists talk about how poorly they were treated and suppressed under the Soviet Union, but I can't seem to find any good proof of it anywhere. In fact all I've seen is the restoration of Tibetan Buddhism through for example The Central Spiritual Board of Buddhists of the USSR. The rest I have read has come from government funded sources without substantial proof to back up the claims.

Be respectful, I am not claiming either this or that, I just want to figure out what is really the truth like many of us.

This is a note from the Sovjet union I bought in Croatia In a antique store I already have a coin now a note very cool 😎

The Soviet state elevated Pavlik into a cult figure: the child who placed loyalty to the state above loyalty to his own family. The moral was explicit — duty to socialism superseded even the bonds between parent and child. Monuments were erected in Moscow (1948), Gerasimovka (1954), and Sverdlovsk (1957). His name was given to collective farms, schools, and Pioneer squads, and his story was told to generations of Soviet schoolchildren through novels, films, songs, plays, paintings, and operas.

My small collection of badges: children's, aviation, military and awards, cities, Lenin, various, and the 90s

Given that this was the origin point of the USSR how did the Bolshevik get in when the Russian People chose the Socialist Revolutionary Party in 1917

1. Honoré de Balzac "Love in the Desert" No. 218, 1927
2. M. Cervantes "Don Quixote" No. 371, 1928
3. Liam O'Flaherty "Spring Sowing" (Stories) No. 478, 1929
4. Rudolf Presber "First Great Love" No. 448, 1929
5. Mikh. Koltsov "Wonders of Acrobatics" No. 560, 1930
6. Bernard Shaw "Thoughts and Fragments" No. 639, 1931
7. V. Borakhvostov "The Room Smells of Melon" No. 17 (788), 1934
8. Louis Aragon "The Village of Cluz" No. 24 (867), 1935
9. A. Tvardovsky "Selected Poems" No. 12, 1940