When Finland had to surrender the Karelian isthmus after the end of the Winter War to the USSR, 12% of the total population of Finland lived there, ~500,000 people. They were offered Soviet citizenship.
They all declined.
Chemical Warfare drill in the USSR, 1928 [640×466]
Source: https://reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/dnh2gl/chemical_warfare_drill_in_the_ussr_1928_640x466/
Red Army captive balloon, photographed by Alexander Rodchenko
After I had visited Chernobyl, I came to the conclusion that the accident was the inevitable apotheosis of the economic system which had been developed in the USSR over many decades. Neglect by the scientific management and the designers was everywhere with no attention being paid to the condition of instruments or of equipment… When one considers the chain of events leading up to the Chernobyl accident, why one person behaved in such a way and why another person behaved in another, it is impossible to find a single culprit, a single initiator of events, because it was like a closed circle.
Valery Legasov, on who is to blame for the Chernobyl disaster. Published in Pravda after his suicide. No one would publish this while he was alive.
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One of the most original gifts to I.V. Stalin from Polish workers is a phone shaped like a globe. The tube is made like a hammer, the lever like a sickle.
Hello?
One of the most original gifts to I.V. Stalin from Polish workers is a phone shaped like a globe. The tube is made like a hammer, the lever like a sickle.
Hello?
Young Pioneers uniform design, USSR, 1925
