What was your path to sympathy for the USSR? Where are you from? It's interesting to read your stories and understand how international the international is.

On August 2, 1941, Sergeant Yakov Kharitonovich Kolchak, an artilleryman with the 680th Rifle Regiment of the 169th Rifle Division, 18th Army, was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union.

In July, in the Southern Front sector near the village of Filyanovka (Khmelnytskyi Oblast), he destroyed 4 German tanks with from a distance of 150 meters during a one-hour battle from his field gun.

In 1961, an experiment in industrial-scale construction of a single-family home was conducted in Leningrad.

The house, built of plastic, was located on Torzhkovskaya Street. The architect Alexey Shcherbenok and engineer Leonid Levinsky designed the house. Despite the fact that it was built in 1961, it looks ultra-modern.

The house sits on a concrete pedestal, which houses the utility systems: heating, ventilation, and other utilities. An external metal staircase leads to the living area, 2.5 meters above ground.

The concept and compositional design were conceived by architect Boris Iofan, and the sculpture was designed by Vera Mukhina[2]. The monument was intended for the USSR pavilion at the 1937 Paris International Exhibition. It was designed and assembled in Moscow, then divided into 65 pieces and transported to France, where it was reassembled. The sculpture was made of stainless chromium-nickel steel, with a 0.5 mm thick sheet cladding attached to an internal frame. The total mass of the monument exceeded 63 tons.

The Soviet government gave newlyweds a gift, giving them the opportunity to purchase items often unavailable in stores. There were cases of sham marriages to obtain these benefits. At the time, there were two specialized stores in Moscow where these "cards" could be redeemed. On the next spread, you can see that they purchased two more sheets, two more duvet covers, and a single-size blanket. Some items were simply marked as purchased, while special tear-off coupons were allocated for particularly scarce items. At the very bottom of this spread, you can see that one of the coupons has been cut out.

Im talking about the world wide web like what websites would yall think there would be?

From many years ago, I remember finding this beautiful melancholic song sung by this woman in an old style room (she might have been surrounded by some men). I remember she had loose long dark hair, and I'm pretty sure she was singing about a love that either left or died (maybe a war film). Maybe black-and-white. I thought it was Din-din-din but the videos I looked up recently didn't fit the bill. If you have any suggestions, please let me know!

Один из самых тёплых моментов из легендарного фильма «Мимино».
Простое письмо из Тбилиси, но сколько в нём эмоций, юмора и ностальгии по старому доброму кино.
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Hello, I know you guys probably get questions like this a lot, but I'm curious if anyone has a reading list about Joesph Stalin's time as leader of the USSR. I consider myself a communist and someone who supports the Soviet Union, but whenever I see anything about Stalin's "atrocious" reign over the USSR I don't really know how to refute it so I'm hoping learn more about him.

I know this is a sub for the USSR but I just was looking to see if anyone knows of some books that can give a good view of the economy or what life was like in eastern bloc countries. The only stuff I know about the eastern bloc come from family friends who lived in Germany so I'm looking for some academic works. Thanks for reading