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Experimental Soviet Photography

These pho­tos are from a pri­vate col­lec­tion of a typ­i­cal Moscow fam­ily. They are dated back to 1936 – 1940 — the years known as the period of Stalin’s most cruel polit­i­cal repres­sions. Sur­pris­ingly enough, peo­ple still man­aged to try and have a few laughs dur­ing those harsh times.

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Aug 05, 2009
Duc Ly said...
Love those old photographs :)
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Aug 25, 2009
Nathan Rein said...
This is great. Reblogged the first one at http://nbr.tumblr.com

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