USSR
Do you remember? Icecream and drinks in the USSR
Though now the shops are full with dozens of kinds of icecream, lemonade and even kvass, but we still miss the products from the past. We still recall the memories from our summers and...
5 the most terrible secrets of the Soviet Union, which was concealed from us all
Communist Russia was an exemplar of openness and accountability in government. That’s not a sentence you’ll read these days—at least not outside of North Korea. (Although I suppose you’re reading it now, which makes my statement a little void. Unless you’re actually in North Korea, in which case...
A young Joseph Stalin before the USSR
Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin (1879 — 1953), taken from a police file. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Stalin was not his name. Born in Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire, in 1878, Ioseb Jughashvili was the son of a failing cobbler and a housemaid. His father Besarion was an alcoholic, and,...