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'Courage makes the blows of fate insignificant'
Loyalty, courage, bravery... There are eternal concepts in life that are not subject to the influences of time or the transience of morals.
'Our banner of victory, our Stalin!'
The historical period of time when the sole power in the Country of the Soviets belonged to one person, known as Stalin, is both vivid and tragic at the same time.
'My address is not a house or a street, my address is the Soviet Union'
The generation born in the 60-80s of the last century today remembers with nostalgia the period of its childhood/youth, which fell on the eternal memory of the 'times of stagnation'.
Something about sports, friendship and world peace
'Oh, sport, you are the world' ‒ the members of the Red Sports International thought and decided to show the bourgeoisie that the proletarians are no worse.
The last chervonets of the last Emperor
July marks the 103-year anniversary of the tragic execution of the Romanov royal family in Yekaterinburg. On the bloody altar of the revolution were sacrificed the lives of people whose names a few years ago were pronounced with reverence and sacred awe.
10 rubles of the sample of 1909
Banknotes with a nominal value of 10 rubles first appeared in Russia in 1786 by decree of Empress Catherine II.
'We are ours, we will build a new world'
A lot of postage stamps are devoted to their own history of development. After all, Lenin called the construction of socialism in 1918 an 'empty phrase' if there is no postal and telegraph communication in the country.
When a beard is more expensive than a head
Who would have thought today that a bearded man can cause other associations than the image of masculinity and strength.
Weapons of Victory
Today, the terrible June of the 41st year is far behind us, when 80 years ago, all the speakers sounded 'Get up, the country is huge...'
Crocodile tears
Thinking about the events of world history that took place in the twentieth century, you come to confusion and horror from the number of lives lost by wars. First ‒ the carnage of the First World War, after-the bloody horrors of Nazism...
Irina-means the world
Irina means peace. This is how the name of the goddess of peaceful life (Eiren) is translated from ancient Greek. In fact, this is not always the case.