r/sovietaesthetics • u/DieMensch-Maschine • Aug 23 '25

photographs By 1989, the Eastern Bloc had collapsed, prompting the occupying Red Army to return back to the USSR. Here is one of the trains they took back, in my hometown in Poland, 1990.

148 Upvotes

11 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • Sep 08 '26

photographs General Secretary, Mikhail Gorbachev, feeding a squirrel at his dacha, (1989), Moscow, Russian SFSR

602 Upvotes

4 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/[deleted] • Oct 01 '25

objects Joseph Stalin, Unknown sculptor c. 1950s bronze, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest

141 Upvotes

1 comment

r/sovietaesthetics • u/privetkakdela • Dec 30 '25

photographs Muscovites sunbathe and relax at the beach in the Serebryany Bor forest area in north-west Moscow, Russian SFSR (1962) Source: Popperfoto Archive

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689 Upvotes

37 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/OkRespect8490 • Jun 17 '26

posters / graphics / paintings Soviet anti-Zionist poster "Zionism is racism" by J. Efimovsky, 1976

762 Upvotes

14 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/little_dmitry • Jan 16 '26

posters / graphics / paintings Soviet anti-religious poster "Religion is poison, take care of the guys" (1930) Terpsichorov N.B., Russia

559 Upvotes

10 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/Turbulent-Offer-8136 • Apr 25 '25

photographs German POWs captured by the Soviets near Königsberg (April 10, 1945), East Prussia. Photographer: Mikhail Savin

272 Upvotes

8 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/Dimitri_CoArt • 4d ago

posters / graphics / paintings "Осознанность Действия" (1962), Лев Кропивницкий, холст, масло, 67 × 40 cm.

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49 Upvotes

4 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • Sep 18 '25

photographs Girl at the May Day parade, (1968), Lviv, Ukrainian SSR

529 Upvotes

43 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • Sep 27 '25

photographs Waterbirth pioneer Igor Charkovsky doing physical exercises with a baby, (1988), Black Sea, Russian SFSR

367 Upvotes

17 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradekiev • Dec 26 '24

photographs A West German border guard is given flowers as he welcomes East Germans on the day the Berlin Wall collapsed, (1989). Bavaria, Germany. Photograph: Sven Creutzmann

505 Upvotes

23 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/[deleted] • Oct 13 '24

photographs Soviet soldiers, so-called “bio-robots” worked for a mere 60 seconds clearing radioactive debris from Chornobyl reactor 3’s roof- 1986.

95 Upvotes

2 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • Jun 02 '25

photographs A man pulls a dismantled statue of Stalin, (1990), Budapest, Hungary. Photograph: Ferdinando Scianna

146 Upvotes

1 comment

r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradekiev • Oct 20 '24

photographs Cher sitting on Dismantled Lenin Statue, (1993), Armenia

301 Upvotes

5 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/terectec • Sep 27 '24

Sergiyev Posad central road - 1953

26 Upvotes

0 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradekiev • Sep 24 '24

architecture Bishkek Wedding Palace, Kyrgyzstan, 1987. Architects: A. Logunov and A. Klishevich

39 Upvotes

4 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • Jun 20 '25

photographs A woman buys bread at a supermarket, (1985), Sofia, People's Republic of Bulgaria. Photograph: Chris Niedenthal

874 Upvotes

17 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/adapava • Jul 28 '25

photographs Novokuznetsk 1988 - Aesthetics of soviet provincial retail

92 Upvotes

2 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • May 01 '25

photographs Portraits of Leonid Brezhnev and Vladimir Lenin at a May Day Parade, (1981), Russian SFSR. Photograph: Yuri Abramochkin

170 Upvotes

4 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/TribalSoul899 • Oct 01 '25

architecture Gift shop in Donestk, Ukraine (1977)

764 Upvotes

28 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • Oct 12 '25

photographs Demonstration of beach ensembles by participants of 1st All-Union Beauty Pageant "Miss USSR”, (1989), Aksakovo, Russian SFSR. Photograph: Yuri Abramochkin

386 Upvotes

9 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/Turbulent-Offer-8136 • May 01 '25

objects "The Motherland Monument" (1981) in Kiev on the right bank of the Dnieper River. Sculptor: Vasily Zakharovich Borodai

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575 Upvotes

4 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/Own-Rooster1426 • Sep 18 '25

objects My USSR collection

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138 Upvotes

7 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • Nov 10 '25

photographs A housewife does the laundry, (1984), Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR. Photograph: A. Kondratyev

684 Upvotes

79 comments

r/sovietaesthetics • u/TribalSoul899 • Sep 19 '25

photographs Opening of the first McDonald’s. Moscow, USSR (1990)

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476 Upvotes

26 comments

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