«The proposal for the construction of houses from multi-story monolithic elements using a walking house-building combine differs significantly from everything that is being done in this area in our country and abroad. A prefabricated unit, which is a compact mobile house-building plant, is delivered to the construction site. With its help, multi-story monolithic elements of a residential building, up to four stories high, are manufactured and installed. Having manufactured and installed the element, the combine, using walking devices, moves to a new working position.»

«The volumetric-spatial elements have a total useful area equal to two two-room apartments. The harvester's productivity is up to 33 thousand m2 of living space per year. The harvester is serviced by approximately 33 people. The cost of 1 m2 of living space in a 32-apartment experimental residential building made of multi-story elements is 30-40% lower than in buildings built according to current standard designs.»

I have been interested in this historical figure for a year (!!!), I have found many photos, several videos with him, but no matter how hard I searched I never found recordings with his voice, which is very disappointing.

Unfortunately, I did not have the opportunity to search in any large archives, or anything like that, simply because I do not know any such archives and do not know how to use them (except that I know one, there I read all the documents that I could find, but there were no voice recordings there either).

In general, I want to ask: does anyone know anything about his voice? I simply have no one to ask, besides, Yagoda is now forgotten and the chances of finding at least something are pretty small.

Yagoda was the People's Commissar of the NKVD, this is an important position, I do not believe that there is not a single recording of his voice that has not survived. Maybe the recordings were destroyed or classified, but I want to believe that there is at least something.

Most of these books were published by Progress Publishers in Moscow and in various languages.

I was helping a friend clean out her closet and she said that this was an old gift from her grandpa who was a Senior Chief in the USN. We were both wondering if it was authentic or not. If anyone could help answer this, it would be greatly appreciated! :)

I think Lenin, Stalin and Breznev are my favorites for specific things

In your honest and unbiased opinion, was the Soviet Union doomed to fail?

Westerners love to claim that the Soviet Union’s victory in WW2 was only possible thanks to American Lend-Lease aid. But here’s what serious historians actually say:

David Glantz (U.S. Army historian, leading expert on the Eastern Front): “The Soviet Union would have defeated Germany without Lend-Lease. It might have taken longer, and been bloodier, but the outcome would have been the same.” (When Titans Clashed, 1995).

Richard Overy (British historian): “The Red Army had already turned the tide before most of Lend-Lease arrived.” (Russia’s War, 1997).

Mark Harrison (economic historian): The USSR produced 125,000 aircraft, 100,000 tanks, and 825,000 artillery pieces during the war. By comparison, Lend-Lease provided only 11,000 aircraft and 7,000 tanks. (Accounting for War, 1996).

U.S. Army official history (1952): Only about 7% of total aid arrived in 1941-42, when the USSR was in the most danger. The bulk came after Stalingrad and Kursk, when the Red Army was already on the offensive.

THE TRUTH

Lend-Lease helped with logistical issues mainly (trucks, jeeps, locomotives, canned food), but not with winning the decisive battles.

Over 90% of tanks, planes, and guns used by the USSR were domestically produced.

Stalingrad, Moscow, and Kursk the true turning points - were won without any significant western aid present.

Roosevelt in 1942 called the USSR the “main battlefield.”

Churchill told Parliament in 1944: “It is the Russian (Soviet) Army that tore the guts out of the German military machine.” (Hansard, 2 August 1944). -rich coming from one of Britains biggest anti communists.

U.S. War Department reports consistently recognized that 80% of German losses were on the Eastern Front.

So let’s be clear and put an end to this old popular myth: Lend-Lease was useful, but not decisive, as a matter of fact id argue it’s hardly relevant and overblown by people who think they know everything, to me it seems like American Exceptionalism.

The Soviet people broke the back of fascism. They would have done it with, or without aid.

Nazis and fascists will never win.

Bonus fact: I was banned on the main ww2 sub for trying to state this.

In 1953, When Stalin was on his death bed, he called in Nikita Khrushchev - at the time head of the Party's Moscow branch, and one of his likely successors - for a tete-a-tete. Stalin first explained how difficult it had been to be at the top; how difficult it was to balance the interests of different power groups; how difficult it was to move ahead on longer-term gaols while handling day-to-day issues; how difficult it was to stay on-course when all his opponents did was criticise, criticise and criticise; and how lonely and misunderstood he had often felt.

Stalin then gave Khrushchev two sealed letters: 'Nikita, my friend, my successor, my political heir; here are two very important letters. When you face your first major crisis, open the letter marked 'ONE'; and when you face your second major crisis, open the letter market 'TWO'. Stalin died and Khrushchev took over.

In 1956, beleaguered by a series of domestic and foreign problems, Khrushchev found it difficult to cope. He decided he needed help and advice, and opened the first of Stalin's letter. It contained these words: 'Blame everything on me.'

That's what Khrushchev did. At the 20th Party Conference he made a speech denouncing Stalin - for his reign of terror, for mismanaging the Second World War, for his foreign policies, for his purges and for creating a 'cult of personality'.

For the next years things went well for Khrushchev with victories at home and abroad; but then in the 1960s things again started going wrong. Hostilities along the Chinese border and the humiliating Cuban missile crisis led to increasing calls for his resignation. As the net closed around him, he recalled Stalin's second letter and opened it hoping it would once again contain a formula for success. The letter contained only these words: 'Prepare two letters.

I think some serious discussion has to happen regarding clarity of intentions in here folks.

Jokes and memes aside, the political ideology we all are routing for advocates the view of the world as differentiated through class, the acceptance of that fundamental truth as the cause of the world's woes and the destruction of that world differentiation (facilitated by the destruction of two other classes) as the remedy.

That's it.

Certainly, this means that certain groups and interests will suffer as they need to be destroyed (the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy)

That doesn't mean that things like the Ukranian holocaust didn't happen or that the mass rapes of Berlin were justified.

Like, give your head a wobble.

This sort of stuff, memes aside, repulses, differentiates and alienates our fellow proletariat, Serving the capitalists, right into their hands.

A recent theorist who touches on a similar thing is Murray Bookchin in his rejection of the fashionisation of anarchism.

We have the moral highground already.

Let not our cause be marred by Barbarism.

No War but class War Victory to the Proletariat.

Because apparently he led the effort for famine relief in 1921? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Famine_Relief_Act

Comrades, i would like to know how comrade Stalin and other soviet government officials living conditions were like. Is it archived somewhere?

second picture. Soviet allies be like after it returns:

Hi all,

I am currently solo traveling and got these pins in Bulgaria. I’m afraid that I got swindled and these pins are actually fake but would like anyone to help validate these.

Furthermore, please provide some tips on what to look out for in buying authentic USSR souvenirs. I will be in Lviv Ukraine and Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and possibly Kyrgyzstan) looking for Soviet souvenirs such as tank helmets, ushankas, pins and medals. If you guys have any spots / flea markets / shops I should look out for and would like to share, please feel free to do so as well.

Many thanks !!