[CondoleezzaProtege]

View of the Tallinn Service House. 1975. Source: National Archives EFA.

Screenshot of an Instagram post. Source: @eastern_european_nostalgic.

[dfwgator]

Soviet Wave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-nh3Tzzsps

[butlerweave]

What about the Stainless Steel Teeth ? LOl

[dfwgator]

One of my favorite movies of all time is “Goodbye, Lenin!” and how in order to convince their mother that East Germany still existed they had to find her favorite brand of pickles from the GDR, all they could do is find an old jar in the trash and replace the label on the new jar with it.

[Paladin2]

I miss the shoe banging at the UN.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"The Americans" Netflix series was a trip down Soviet Memory Lane.

[2nd Amendment]

Democratic Party to build a memorial

[Jeff Vader]

UC Berkeley has one of the student dorms done in the soviet era “Brutalist” style architecture

[Krosan]

Young people are stupid and what has made them stupid is easy life. We’ve finally broken through to the first world and now have first world problems.

t. an Estonian

[allendale]

The Russian people suffered horribly under ninety years of evil communism. Yet will always wonder how many current Americans would have not come to exist if the Russians, who suffered horrendous casualties, had not fought the Germans so well and had not destroyed the best of the German war machine. If America had to attack Europe against a relatively intact German army,wonder how many of our grandfathers and fathers would have never returned to procreate.

[Gen.Blather]

I knew a man who grew up in an apartment building in the Soviet Union. All the apartments on his floor had one bathroom similar to the small one in my mobile homes. One small sink, a toilet and a shower. He said that naked people would walk down the main corridor with a towel over their shoulder at all hours.

In the US he was a successful engineer working for the American division of an Israeli defense company. He hated the Soviet Union so much that when his wife wanted to go back to visit family in the Russian Republic, he refused to go. He told me, “I had nightmares that something would happen and I’d be stuck there.” His wife described it as creepy. “Everything requires a bribe.” They delayed and delayed stamping her passport and finally complained about the low pay, so she realized she had bribe them.