These fascinating nostalgic photographs show everyday life in the Soviet Union. Despite the threat of nuclear annihilation, political issues, looming cold war, and other difficulties of life, these photos capture happiness, peace, moments in time so fleeting that they’re gone as quickly as they arrive.
Semyon Osipovich Friedland captured these photographs in the 1950s. He was a soviet photographer from Kyiv. Friedland began his career as a journalist but then left the profession because of the censorship. In 1932 he graduated from the photography department of the State Institute of Cinematography. In 1950 Friedland worked as an editor-in-chief for the photography department of the famous “Ogonyok” (Russian: Огонёк, lit. “little flame”), which is one of the oldest weekly illustrated magazines in USSR and is published even today in Russia.
Here is something to cheer you up on a bad day
Take care, comrade. I hope your day gets better
Thank you, friend, it means a lot
People there missed the old Soviet times when there was no unemployment when people were happy when they had what they needed when they owned the means of production instead of fat-rich men when there was virtually no crime when the state kept building when the people were united and accessible when there was health care and welfare available to everyone.
My parents would prefer the USSR to now-days Russia
These excellent, powerful, working women are in stark contrast to the countless USA photos that show them shopping or at home.
When I tell people that many former Soviet citizens miss the Soviet Union, they believe me. Even those who think it is all the result of “brainwashing”.