#sovietwave

[ziminasacademics]

Soviet dark academia, a sub-branch

[slowianskosci]

Ukryta lokacja w Disco Elysium.

[zvyozdochka]

Polar bear on board a Soviet icebreaker, 1970.

[120daysofsodomm]

loneliness and emptiness

[comrade-onion]

" No god!" - vintage Soviet Poster ☭

[post-punk-author-anthony-day]

“It will blow your mind!” - Antichrist

Post Punk of every era

Deep cuts, b sides, John peel sessions, hits

Classics

Current embers

So get your fuckin grim on!

It’s my mission to spread the evil

[alisonskjeggestad]

❤︎𝙑𝙞𝙠𝙩𝙤𝙧 𝙏𝙨𝙤𝙞❤︎

[gynii]

A survey about interests in soviet aesthetics

I've been pretty curious about how personal proximity to soviet union/era affects whether or not you like these aesthetics/media, based on me and some of my diaspora friends having particular interests in these.

quick disclaimer, i do not fuck with tankies. i wont tolerate any discussion about how the soviet union or modern russian government was/are "actually quite good" this is not the space for that, i will delete/block any comments, asks, other interactions that try to pull that shit here

how i'm defining shit:

i'm using post-soviet states as a catch-all for actual post-soviet states and satellite/eastern bloc states.

"i am from a post-soviet state" means specifically you were born in one and you still live in one. doesn't have to be the same one.

"i am diaspora" means either you were born in or you're 2nd maybe 3rd gen from someone from a post-soviet state, but you now live in/spent majority of your life in a non-post-soviet state.

i leave discretion to individuals to determine how distant they may be to still be considered diaspora, but i would prefer that a parent or grandparent left while soviet union was active, or after it dissolved, and you've like actually met them and stuff.

soviet aesthetics does not include any eastern european thing ever. liking polish folk art, or pre-soviet russian literature, do not count.

art and media include literature, fine art, film, comics, music, shows, video games, fashion, graphic design, your own ocs, and any other medium you can think of

also feel free to reblog/comment with any nuances in your situation/opinion

[vampirevalery]

Old building of the Faculty of Applied Linguistics of the Warsaw University

Szturmowa 4, Warsaw

[wilwheaton]

Screengrabs from a Soviet-era broadcast day sign off.

[zvyozdochka]

Soviet New Year tree lights, 1960s.

[charonsferry]

Might've posted this before but I feel like Appalachia has the most post-Soviet vibes of any American region. Concrete shitbox apartments, decaying industries, I don't even know how to describe the amount of drug usage, median age is 60 and anyone younger than that has little desire beyond leaving. Even as someone in one of its most prosperous areas it's almost pretty how sad it all is

[comrade-onion]

No Mercy ☭

[post-punk-author-anthony-day]

A Playlist built around #Russianpostpunk and #sovietwave

[liketwoswansinbalance]

Slightly niche Modern AU Rafal headcanon (Does anyone agree or have a different take?):

I had a random association and now, I'm almost certain Rafal would enjoy Russian doomer music, even solely for its vibes (assuming he is the fantasy equivalent of a Westerner who only speaks a Germanic language because most fairy tales in SGE are the Germanic ones. Honestly, one thing I wonder about, even if we have evidence of Spanish and other accents' existence, is how the Woods as we've seen them are rather monolingual, probably for plot convenience, but that depiction just strikes me as a little strange, like, too deeply suspect that their world is that unified, all by itself—unless the Storian is to blame as usual—maybe we're not meant to allot it any critical thought...), although I've looked up some English translations of this genre's lyrics and they are rather dark, so that fits him fairly well—unless being silent with his thoughts would be preferable.

Yet, one clarification to make: Even if the music might resonate with him, I think he wouldn't be a fatalist until much later in whatever character progression he'd have. Instead, I see him as a doomsday prepper, in probably a more I-will-live-against-all-odds, Western, literally every-man-for-himself, individualist sense as that might be more in line with his character in canon. He'd be obsessed with survivalism and TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World as We Know It) as a concept.

Here is an example of the music I found—I'm not sure if this is actually representative of the whole and I don't know much about it or the historical context though.

Also, here are some English lyrics from various songs under the cut that I just happened to like:

Again the spring has come, And warming rays of sun Are looking in my cell through window-panes Again the heart will ache The feelings will awake And memory recalls auld days

Those days will come to me And I shall feel and see The girl whom I loved so long ago That girl came and left That girl I can’t forget Her image’s always in my soul.

Vladimir prison-house Сold northern wind My transport came from Tver And all my evil deeds Lie on my heart like heavy weights

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Stab me with that stare as i walk by It's like poison in my blood It trips me up just like a stone I'm just sick of people, and they're sick of everything

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My ship is sailing straight ahead, avoiding the land The captain drunk and stubborn He'll protect it till the end Drowning to the right, drowning to the left Not enough lifeboats, there isn't help for everyone Swimming away, I'm swimming away somewhere straight, somewhere away

[kvetch19]