Images from the USSR

**Your Old Comrade** · 08-20-2023, 12:22 PM

1980s Western documentaries about the USSR:

This film follows the family of Jerry Schecter, Former Moscow bureau chief for Time magazine, as they return to the Soviet Union after twenty years. Talking to their Russian friends and acquaintances, they discover what the Russian people are thinking about the changes brought by Perestroika and Glasnost.

Produced by WGBH Educational Foundation.

#sovietunion #1980s #history

1984 documentary on the USSR.

Produced by Film Australia.

#Soviet_Union
#history
#1980s

An American documentary about the Soviet police in Leningrad in 1989

**Voskos** · 08-20-2023, 01:11 PM

**Etelfrido** · 08-20-2023, 03:52 PM

It's a pity what they did to the Königsberg Castle.

**medvedev92** · 08-27-2023, 03:50 PM

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**medvedev92** · 08-27-2023, 03:52 PM

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**Your Old Comrade** · 10-19-2023, 09:04 PM

Video uploaded on 8 April 2021.

Eduard Artemyev - Theme from Siberiade

60 years ago today, April 8th, Yuri Gagarin was chosen as the crewman for the Vostok 1 mission, with Gherman Titov as his backup. 4 days later he would become the first man in space, completing a single orbit over the course of just over an hour.

"As his close friend and cosmonaut colleague Alexei Leonov tells it, then-premier Nikita Khrushchev cornered Gagarin "So tell me, Yuri," he asked, "did you see God up there?" After a moment's pause Gagarin answered, "Yes sir, I did." Khrushchev frowned. "Don't tell any one.""

**Your Old Comrade** · 01-14-2024, 03:05 AM

1966 Volga GAZ-21. It's got three on the tree, a very good heater and an "agricultural" engine note. Is the brawny Volga the reason Communism failed? Take a ride with Jay to find out!