What was the Soviet Union really like?

Oct 26, 2017 3:03 AM

jmlrocks1

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Images of the Soviet Union (see the comment of the post!)

Soviet H A P P Y

Typical apartment complexes

Universam, (USSR equivalent to a supermarket)

Toy World, Soviet Union's biggest toy store.

JFC I finally got through all those just now.

7 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

It's almost like the US lied about the daily lives of USSR citizens. Huh.

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Load 299 more images... not today! +1

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Take me back. God take me back home...

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Dotting this shit for later

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Great collection! Thank you.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"All the building were grey and the everyone wore black and grey clothing"

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

politcal stuff aside this is actually pretty cool, im sure not all of the soviet union looked like this tho

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

In the supposed capitalist paradises, homes or buildings have been built for workers. The answer is that it has never been given.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Wow - the Soviet Union has electric lights - who knew!

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 15

In U.S.A. there are 140 million poor people, and 66 million living in extreme poverty, something that never existed in the USSR.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The CCCP actually eliminated poverty, homelessness, and unemployment near completely

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That one guy that didn't turn his lights on likely died soon after. =X

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 9

The only thing that has died is your brain to not be able to refute the facts with arguments since they do not possess it.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Therefore, they lived better in socialist countries than in capitalist countries.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

You mean how Moscow looked like https://i.imgflip.com/1ya3b0.jpg

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 14

I have pictures from azerbaijan, bulgaria and hungary in here, it's hardly limited to moscow. (and housing was pretty similar everywhere)

9 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 1

This is nuts where'd you find these?

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Pastvu, in particular, this guy's uploads were helpful: https://pastvu.com/u/alexba/photo

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

The picture you've used here: http://chrisniedenthal.com/en/works/chleb-sofia-1985 is actually from Bulgaria

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Bulgaria was an Eastern Bloc Socialist country aligned with the USSR before the undermining of the USSR.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There's pictures from various soviet republics I think. I believe I recognize Armenia and some turkmen country in a couple

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Which was a satellite state of the soviet union... It's not like it's something completely unrelated.

7 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

The US has almost all countries in Europe and Latin America as satellite states.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Remember what they stole from you.

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Stupid funny shit aside, These are fascinating! Thank you!

9 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 2

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 11

Some of the best propaganda I have seen this week!

9 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 20

The US has 2.5 million children in the street.

6 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

66 million Americans live in poverty, misery, hunger, these people are abandoned to their fate.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

The US has 4.9% unemployment.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

140 million Americans live on hunger wages and are in poverty.

6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

The US has 5 million students indebted for education.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

The United States has the largest prison population in the world: 2.2 million people.

6 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

The US has 1600 femicides a year.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

The US generates 45 thousand deaths due to lack of medical attention.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

I don't get this as propaganda-ish in any way.

9 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 1

Anything pro soviet is propoganda apparantly

9 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 2

USA: the rich country with the highest infant mortality.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Which is great and everything, but I’m not American but thanks for chiming in

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It doesn't look like an evil empire to me

9 years ago | Likes 75 Dislikes 4

cause only show elite capital district (notice kosmonaut shit) & photos are all staged (notice perfectly stacked boxes) just lik north korea

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 16

Elite? That is what exists in a decadent imperialist exploiting country, thief, looter like the US.

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

North Korea and the USSR are a paradise for workers but it is a "hell" or an "empire" 4 the rich bourgeois thieves and corrupt capitalists.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

And I'm sure there are similar hand picked photos from Pyongyang and people will think that all North Korea lives that way...

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 24

It was reference to a Ronald Reagan quote

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

You live better in North Korea and in the USSR than in the US and Europe.

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

There are people who live that way, unfortunately US imperialist propaganda. You can't cover that reality.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nice post. But truth was far from these pictures.

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 20

You know what is socialism, communism, reformism, revisionism, opportunism, social democracy, neoliberalism, capitalism and imperialism are.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In the supposed capitalist paradises, homes or buildings have been built for workers. The truth has never been given that.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Tell me in which capitalist country where the bourgeois state builds free buildings and homes for its workers. Answer: None.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The truth is that life in the Soviet Union was superior in every way to the countries of Western Europe and the US itself.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Are you sure? Did you had luck to live there?

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I have talked with a Soviet citizen who lived 22 years in the USSR and currently lives in Spain and speaks Spanish.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I know because I have known a Soviet citizen more than a year ago by twitter, I do not understand Russian, but this man could speak Spanish.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Even what Ronald Reagan's anti-communist said about the Soviets in the 1980s was false and is an insult to intelligence.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Everything the media said in the West about the USSR is totally false.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Live a year in a country in Latin America, and then you come to talk if it is good to live under capitalism.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You can come to any country in Latin America, you will know how to live under wild capitalism or neoliberalism.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A friend of the twitter interviewed this man who lived in the USSR, unfortunately his account was closed because twitter is censoring.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well, I'm ex CCCP citizen, live in Lithuania. And just wondering, what aspects of life there were mentioned as better?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I speak with adults over 50 years, 60 years, 70 years, 80 years, 90 years who have lived in the socialist USSR and the revisionist USSR.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I should know that I will never take into account post-truth, gossip, rumors, myths, false news, anti-communist propaganda...

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If you want me to speak, you will first have to tell me that you know about the USSR without saying any manipulation of the bourgeois media.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

... and false documentaries full of anti-communist propaganda, dissidents paid by intelligence agencies, anti-communist media sources.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0