Someone posted the link to this album in the comments a while ago but I made a post to make it more visible because everyone should see this. Now we can get nostalgic together and unironically say that we were born in the wrong generation. Listen to sovietwave while browsing for the full experience.
Those apartment complexes have so much green space! damn you capitalists fvuks. Everything is just the same american-capitalist commodified trash now, McDonalds and Pizza Hut, available in every country near you.
The USSR was a great stabilizing force for international politics. Can you imagine what postwar Amerikkka would've done if it weren't counterbalanced by a socialist superpower?
Look at what they already did. It was already worse than what they do now because they were more threatened. But probably the Gulf War and the Iraq War on repeat every couple of years. And basically what we have now where half the world is governed by western puppets and people can't even attempt to do something better because they know it will be shut down by the US. It's similar to "Pax Romana" in that sense. The violence is just permeated through everything so it's less visible to people in the imperial core.
It irritates me to no end that even media that's sympathetic to socialism always presents it with decaying concrete and rusty corrugated metal. There's never any representation of the absolutely beautiful public spaces and unique architecture.
For some reason the USSR has become locked in the minds of people as a corpse. Impossible to imagine alive because that living being is too much of a threat to those in power.
Feel like pure shit just want her back x
Capitalists will call this picture grim and depressing while calling this vibrant and full of life.
The weather in the USSR must have been shit though. All images from there used in western media is taken during rain, snow or overcast weather.
The weather in Eastern Europe really is pretty shit, but then again I've been spoiled by living on tropical islands / california my whole life.
Ywn cast a ballot for your local worker's council while having comrade Lenin staring daggers into you ensuring you pick the correct candidate.
spoiler
Just kidding, all the candidates are dedicated Marxists so it's a tough choice between equally good candidates
I don't know what you're trying to pull, but this is clearly not communism
This was beautiful, thanks for sharing, comrade.
Damn what film were they using in the CCCP? The colors in these photos are amazing, those reds are eye-popping
Hey I'm a camera guy here. It also has to do with their lenses they make a difference too :). I have a few Soviet cameras and I love them.
Film does things when you do long exposures that digital can't without heavy use of photoshop. To get photos like that, all you have to do is setup a tripod and a shutter cable, and do a several second exposure. (There is math involved to determine how long). Most of those pics the exposure looked like just a few seconds, but I saw some that had to be a few minutes.
Also, Soviet cameras are quite cheap. On the order of $30-100 for most 35mm models on ebay right now. Look up Zorki 4k. They are Leica clones, basically.
Main manufacturer was called Svema. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svema
The comments in the Imgur album “it’s all staged! It’s just the capital!”
"Look at all the perfectly stacked boxes. It's obviously staged." Lmao
What time period where these taken? I'm gessing 70s-80s, but it'd be interesting to know which photos were taken pre-and post-perestroika
Is there a way to easily download all this, especially at a good quality?
