Photos from the "old days"

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What have you been doing with yourself? - Army training, sir!



https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/3714/141128800.2f4/0_10b560_e3e5af34_orig.jpg

 

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A file sharpening. 1939, Aleksandr Shajkhet.

 

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Movie theater "Mir" (World), Minsk, mid-1960's. My old movie theater.



https://pastvu.com/_p/a/5/w/z/5wzr3kcg0lllj6v2we.jpg

 

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Drilling a hole in a kitchen wall, 1973, Lithuania. Photo by Xenon Bulgakov.



https://cdn.fishki.net/upload/post/2021/05/20/3761807/4-23.jpg

 

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A "wild" (impromptu) auto resort somewhere warm. Judging from cars, mid-70's.

 

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A liquor kiosk line, sometime in the late 80's.

 

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A pirozhki stand in the winter.

 

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And one could buy port straight out of tank. BYOJ. This guy repurposed a jar of pickles. Presumably, washed. Mid-late 1980's.



https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/maxim_nm/51556845/2271132/2271132_original.jpg

 

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Sneakers sold by a requisite. One needed an ID and a certificate from the city administration. 1990. Minsk.

 

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When Mr. Goodwrench is nowhere to be found

 

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Cousin Nicky and Cousin George, 1909



http://www.victoriana.com/antiques/images/Tsar_Nicholas.JPG

AKA, Czar Nicholas II and (soon to be) King George V.

 

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June, 2 , 1962. The Soviet military opens fire on the crowd in the city of Novocherkask. The crowd is protesting the hike in food prices (and its absence). 26 people are killed, 70 more wounded, 9 more tried and executed.



Khrushchev lasts two more years as the top dog but the head of KGB Vladimir Semychastny saves his life. Khrushchev's successor and a coup plotter Leonid Brezhnev would have preferred him gone for good.

 

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A beets saleslady. Moscow open air (private) market. Photo by Dean Conger, National Geographic. (a Nikon guy)



https://cameralabs.org/media/lab18/04/10/puteshestvie-po-sssr-foto-din-konger2_51.jpg

 

[Gord.T]

Cousin Nicky and Cousin George, 1909

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http://www.victoriana.com/antiques/images/Tsar_Nicholas.JPG

AKA, Czar Nicholas II and (soon to be) King George V.

I wouldn't ask but only because I've had a few AND it wouldn't surprise me but I have to ask-> Your cousins? Again, it wouldn't surprise me partly because it is a small world AND I have been known to be an idiot sometimes after few haha.

 

[DLD]

It's Czar Nicholas II (1868-1918) on the left and the soon to be King George V (1865-1936) on the right.

Here's another of their cousins, Kaiser Wilhelm, II (1969-1941)

Willhelm and Nicholas kept correspondence for over 40 years, calling each other Cousin Willy and Cousin Nicky. In English.

 

[Gord.T]

Okay. Got it. Thank-you.

 

[NorBro]

Gord, those are his cousins, he's just joshing with you.

 

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An immigrant from the Soviet Union just landed at the Ben Gurion Airport in 1991 when the direct flights were allowed. He's still wearing his WWII medals.

http://www.jewishlens.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/honorable-discharge.jpg

 

[Gord.T]

I had a 403 error on the image so I'm sharing another link to the image.

 

[DLD]

The photo is by Zion Ozeri.

https://www.zionozeri.com/content.html?page=1

He says it's from 1992 but the USSR ceased to exist at the end of 1991 and, from the clothing, this was taken in the summer.