In the year 1953, US major Martin Manhoff would shoot color photographs throughought the Soviet Union, including a 10 minute film of Stalin's funeral. None of the photographs were made available to the public until early this year. The film itself was made available only yesterday.
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Manhoff's archives provide a never-before seen unfiltered and uncensored documentation of early 1950's Soviet Union, during the last year of Stalin's reign.
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Also general colorized historical photos thread if anyone feels like it.
>13 Mokhovaya ulitsa, which served as the site of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow until 1953.
>18 Novinsky bulvar, Moscow, opposite the new U.S. Embassy. In 1995 a man fired an RPG into the embassy from this archway.
>The Hotel Ukraina under construction, as seen from the roof of the new U.S. Embassy on Novinsky bulvar. In the foreground stands the Church of the Nine Martyrs of Cyzicus.
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>The grandiose Hotel Moskva, on the Soviet capital's Manezhnaya ploshchad.
>Red Square, Moscow.
>Approaching the intersection of Moscow's Okhotny ryad and Tverskaya ulitsa, traveling northwest on Tverskaya.
>Shopping at Moscow's Petrovsky Passazh department store.
>Unknown location (probably Novinsky bulvar, Moscow).
>View of the Kremlin from the entrance to 13 Mokhovaya ulitsa, then the location of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
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>Celebration on Manezhnaya ploshchad, Moscow.
>ditto
>Moscow State University's newly constructed main building glowing on the horizon. Shot from the roof of the new U.S. Embassy on Novinsky bulvar.
Aesthetic.
>Central Telegraph Building, 7 Tverskaya ulitsa, Moscow.
Sign says "300 Years since the reunification of Ukraine with Russia".
>The Stalinist skyscraper on Moscow's Kudrinskaya ploshchad looms over a lane near near the new U.S. Embassy.
>Moscow's Teatralnaya ploshchad, with the Hotel Metropol in the background.
>Pushkinskaya ploshchad, Moscow.
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>Celebration on Manezhnaya ploshchad, Moscow.
>The state cinema on Moscow's Arbatskaya ploshchad, screening the 1953 film Lights On The River.
>A scene from Moscow's Pushkinskaya ploshchad, looking down Tverskaya ulitsa toward the Kremlin.
This is fucking awesome OP. Looks better than today's capitalism to be honest. Maybe the commies are the good guys after all.
>The corner of Bolshoi Devyatinsky pereulok and Novinsky bulvar, near the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
>Novodevichy Convent, Moscow.
>View of Novodevichy Convent (center) and three of Moscow's Seven Sisters from Sparrow Hills.
>Novospassky Monastery, Moscow.
>ditto
It doesn't look really communist either. Yes, there are posters, flags and military parades, but also stores and small vendors.
>Swimming lineup, unknown location.
>Yalta, Crimea.
>Promenade on the Black Sea, Yalta, Crimea.
>Yalta, Crimea
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>View from a train window, unknown location.
>View from a train window, unknown location
Is there a link to this collection? I started the save them but there is too much?
>Park Zhertv Interventsy, Murmansk.
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>Park Zhertv Interventsy, Murmansk.
Mixed this one up, that's supposed to be St. Peterburg.
>Looking southwest down Leningradskaya ulitsa from site of today's Azimut Hotel, Murmansk.
thanks
>Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, located in Sergiyev Posad, 70 kilometers northeast of Moscow.
How did this came to this?
>18 Novinsky bulvar, Moscow, opposite the new U.S. Embassy.
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Bump for interest
>A shop window on Moscow's Teatralnaya ploshchad, just steps east of the Bolshoi Theater.
>The Moscow Zoo.
>Flooded streets in Kyiv, Soviet Ukraine.
>Park Kultury metro station, seen from Zubovsky bulvar.
And these are all for now, though apparently there's some more to be made available in the coming days.
Source (provided earlier): rferl.org
Echoes of Stalin's mismanagement in addition to oil prices plummeting hard.
Did these get censored?
Where are the gulags, starving peasants, mass executions, and aliens?
>tfw unironically Stalin has been the best ruler of Russia in history
>1953 Moscow was cleaner than today's Moscow
What happened?
The combination of more centralized global trade with crippling economic sanctions
nice, thank you for sharing
The fuck is up with that writing on the left?
>Where are the gulags, starving peasants, mass executions, and aliens?
not in the fucking capital of the country?
>aliens in the countryside
Damn that's spooky
Where else would they be?
Latinized Cyrillic
Probably Russian
>Latinized
Chinafied you mean.
It says "A brotherly greeting to the Chinese People's Republic!".
My closet
Fuck I thought it may have been Chinese
Couldn't see clear enough though.
>tfw Kruschev fucked up USSR-Sino relations
Doesn't look too bad desu.
the annexation of crimea, invasion of ukraine and all the international sanctions which followed
Western Europe had shortages and food stamps well into the 50's
And the 2008 crisis before that, and the second Chechen campaign before that, and the 1998 financial crisis before that, and the first Chechen campaign before that, and the 1993 constitutional crisis before that, and the 1992 privatization campaign before that, and the 1991 crisis before that, and the late 80's food shortages before that, and the Afghan campaign before that, and etc. etc.
Sounds like we need a /rus/ board
ayy that's not a pobeda or some other 1930's boxy car
Russia 1998 was snowy Ethiopia.
Saved them all, thanks for the dump, OP.
did you also notice how there are zero ( 0%) non-white people?
i know, it awesome
i hate communism, but these pictures make it look like the conservative white ethno-state that i've always wanted
The secret is to be poor as fuck so nobody wants to move to your country.
It's why Poland and Portugal are still extremely homogeneous.
It's not Chinese, it's just an exaggeratedly Oriental-style font. The text is Cyrillic and the words are written in Russian.
Its 100% non white. Slave are not white.
The Soviet Union is pretty much responsible for the homogenization of Poland. Before Communism Poland still had a huge minority of Jews and Ukrainians who perished as a result of deportation and emigration, those who remained were encouraged to hide their ethnicity.
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Awesome, thank you OP. Feels surreal to see this in such high quality.
>comfy wooden tzarist houses were replaced by commie bricks
Communism was a mistake after all.
Market socialisms poor implementation and to a larger extent the mismanagement since the early 70s
This was a primo spot, shame we had to lose it.
48 more years of communism.
where are all the people? Seems like there are more military personal then civilians
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Sent to Gulag((((((
did you have a stroke?
More like 26 years of capitalism...
Stalinist bump
Very cool. Thanks for posting.
Fuck off kike.
Wow that's a cool picture
Gorbatchev's economic reforms
There's little reason to be out on the street in soviet times. There's work, the store, and the home, and little more inbetween. The place was kinda boring.
This looks a lot more comfy than I thought
Triggered sub human slav?
(1) misallocation on the enterprise level beginning in the 1960s-1970s. this is a polite way to say people figured out how to abuse the resource system not based on prices
(2) capture of the state budget by the military
(3) USSR wasting their money propping up dumb bullshit in other parts of the world (DPRK, Afghanistan, Cuba, etc)
thank you OP
Back to the oven.