Holiday decorated shop in Soviet Union
This blog is about old postcards, book illustration, history and culture of Russia and the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 10 years old.
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Happy New Year! (Soviet poster)
“Happy New Year, Comrades!” - vintage Soviet poster featuring Moscow landmarks (1950s)
Happy New Year! Back cover of the Jolly Pictures, a Soviet children’s magazine (1965)
“Happy New Year, comrades!” - Soviet poster
“Happy New Year! (The Second Year of the Seven-Year Plan).” Vintage Soviet bookmark, 1959 (via)
“Happy New Year 1949” Sokolniki park in Moscow
“Soviet Childhood” exhibition in Moscow in January 2015. Love those tins and party invitations from the 1950s - they’re quite hard to find today.
Moscow, February 4, 1990. The most massive protest in the history of the Soviet Union. 300 thousand people marched from the Crimean Bridge along the Garden Ring and Gorky Street (now Tverskaya) to the 50th Anniversary of October Square (Manezhnaya). The main demand of the protesters was to abolish Article 6 of the USSR Constitution that declared the leading role of the Communist Party.
Selling New Year tree decorations in the 1980s
Illustration by Kirill Ovchinnikov