Photos from the "old days"
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777 (also called Three Axes .. or worse) was the Soviet era fortified wine, essentially a puke worthy mix of the bottom-of-the-barrel grape juice and ethanol. Sold for about a ruble per 750 mL bottle and popular among professional drunks and professional students. It was billed as "port wine" but had nothing to do with the real port.
November, the 7th, 1982. The Great October Socialist Revolution day in the USSR. Leonid Brezhnev ain't feeling too well but he has to make appearances at the annual Red Square parade. This happens to be his last one. He catches a bad cold and dies three days later. Today is the 39th anniversary of his cold.
(to our left is the defense minister Dmitri Ustunov (1908-1984); to our right, the prime minister Nicolai Tikhonov (1905-1997). The Era of Lavish Funerals is well underway.
(to our left is the defense minister Dmitri Ustunov (1908-1984); to our right, the prime minister Nicolai Tikhonov (1905-1997). The Era of Lavish Funerals is well underway.
Sometime in the early 1950s (or late 1940's). Josef Stalin is leading the procession of the top leaders of the USSR. To his left is Vyacheslav Molotov. To his right is Georgy Malenkov and Lavrentiy Beria. Malenkov, an intellectual, was supposed to have been Stalin's successor but decided/was pressured not to take the top post and was content with the triumvirate of leaders (with Khrushchev and Bulganin). By 1957, Malenkov lost the power struggle to Tricky Nicky, was exiled to Kazakhstan to a minor post and subsequently dismissed from the Communist Party ranks altogether in 1961. He returned to Moscow as a retiree and died there in 1988.
NorBro
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By the way, realizing not everyone might know, but someone passed out on the street or road was an everyday occurrence in many countries like that back then.
In my summers in Poland in the 90s, I saw someone passed out drunk on a daily basis. Most people would casually step over you.
Not sure if he's drunk, but just saying - and hopefully he was okay.
In my summers in Poland in the 90s, I saw someone passed out drunk on a daily basis. Most people would casually step over you.
Not sure if he's drunk, but just saying - and hopefully he was okay.
He's drunk. There are so many photos of that type, I pretty much decided not to post them anymore.
OK, fine. One.
Not on topic per se. Well, sort of. Sergei Filimonov was a popular host of a entertainment industry type show "Seen and unseen" on the Belorussian TV for over two decades. He was also a long time boyfriend of a Facebook friend of mine. He died yesterday in Minsk from COVID. She's in shock. We're in shock, having chatted just recently on some very important entertainment topics such as Deep Purple's "Perfect Strangers" album. He was a cool dude.
