#russia IS the ussr

[prussianmemes]

It is with heavy heart that the insanity has finally reached Leonid Brezhnev's hometown, Kamianske, will be dismantling their memorial to him tomorrow morning, 9:00 AM, July 27th 2023.

His entire life before coming to power was spent working in, and in the service of, the Ukrainian SSR. He rebuilt, renovated, and expanded the quality of life in Ukraine throughout most of his life.

It was he who built up the great city of Dnipro, kept Kyiv supplied and fed during the Second World War, who shielded his peers during the Great Purge, the only one who succeeded in relieving suffering during the 1946 famine, who restored Zaprozhie to prewar levels in incredible time and without terror. He never engaged in terror, he was one of the few who wholly and completely was engaged in his work with purpose and a cool head.

Like many others, his true identity was complicated. Sometimes calling himself a Ukrainian, sometimes Russian. Yet, he was a man loyal to his home above all.

Yet the iconoclastic fervor in the last year, this complete and total insanity, this call to completely revise and deny history, has come for Leonid in his home town.

There is no justification for this. No well reasoned, academic argument for this kind of collective denial, for anything other than immediate political gain and vanity.

[zvyozdochka]

Polar bear on board a Soviet icebreaker, 1970.

[sovietpostcards]

“Strawberries” by Igor Kornilov (linocut, 1958)

[soviet-amateurs]

Dancing in front of Matisse in the Hermitage

Photo by Sergei Podgorkov, 1970

[vintagegeekculture]

"Viy" (1967), the only horror movie ever made in the Soviet Union.

[picsfromsiberiangirl]

Megalophobia.

[opendirectories]

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

1930s/40s cartoon of Ukraine/russia/England/US that describes Ukraine's same situation in 2024.

[vintage-russia]

Glory to the Soviet troops who hoisted the banner of victory over Berlin!

Brandenburg Gate,Berlin (1945)

[humanoidhistory]

Cafeteria at the Institute of High Energy Physics in Protvino, USSR, 1970.

[ezicorifl]

[folklorespring]

May 18 is the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Crimean Tatars from the territory of Crimea in 1944 by the Soviet authorities. It is also a remembrance day for the victims of this genocide.

Thread on deportation of Crimean Tatars

[zvyozdochka]

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

[sovietpostcards]

"Zoological Lotto", vintage board game designed by V. Vatagin (Soviet Russia, 1939)

[soviet-amateurs]

Winter tea, 1974 Moscow

[universal-casey]

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