“Happy New Year, Comrades!” - vintage Soviet poster featuring Moscow landmarks (1950s)
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“Happy New Year, comrades!” - Soviet poster
“Happy New Year 1949” Sokolniki park in Moscow
“Happy New Year! (The Second Year of the Seven-Year Plan).” Vintage Soviet bookmark, 1959 (via)
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Soviet Union in the early 1950s (Yalta, Moscow) (via)
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.
Soviet Union State Library in Moscow. Banners announce the International Philatelic Exhibition - July 1957 ()
Children with candy boxes (traditional New Year gifts in the USSR)
Tea packaging labels from the Soviet Union (1950s)
Teas were named after their locations: Tseylon tea, Indian tea, Georgian tea, Krasnodar tea (a city in the South of Russia), Azerbaijanian tea, Chinese tea. There was also the name of the tea packaging factory on the back of the pack.
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Illustration by Kirill Ovchinnikov