40 Pics That Perfectly Sum Up The Soviet And Post Soviet Times, As Shared On This Page

Don’t fur-babies deserve mittens too?

I know, I'm thinking "wow, grandma had a hard life". 🤣

The plan worked tomorrow the dog goes to the butcher to buy meat.

me too!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BszkK40gUvK/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link to be exact, 7th Jan 2017

I am not 100% sure, so please anyone who really knows correct me, but Russia is very large. It encompasses many different cultures. I know there are asian looking people but am not sure about black people. Anyway, I don't think this poster is multi-national, but rather multi-cultural, as all those depicted belong to the same nation. Very inclusive. And it's from 1957.

Well yes, that’s why it’s propaganda

Happy and well fed

They're probably happy their parents weren't executed in one of the many purges.

Yes, it is multinational, or rather, internationalist. The Sixth World Festival of Youth and Students was held in Moscow in 1957. Many students from friendly African countries were already studying in the Soviet Union, and peace was a common theme in public placards and murals (e.g. miru mir - "peace to the world"). While it is true that there were many different ethnicities within the Soviet Union, the figures in the above poster represent Asia, Europe, and Africa.

*multi-cultural

Ditto!

Much intense.

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so bad, it's good!

Mind if I steal that one? I have a friend who likes using very, very painful puns that I'd like to inflict it upon.

Ba dum tsh.

GROAN! Take my upvote and go away.

I think you just won the boss level of the Dad Jokes game! I bow down to you 👊

You won the internet that day

Bwahaha!!! My family has a strong Czech heritage, this cracks me up!!!

I love you and hate you because of this b******t. Who moved first?

Same here 😻😻💖💖

LMGTFY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRyKYmOJwM

I never learned how to use one, i just kinda look at one and put together how it worked lol. At its base its just kinda a memory aid. Basically each wire represents a digit placement. Like say: ones, tenths, hundreds. Ten beads shifted on the ones bar, is one bead on the tenths bar. This would be a very basic abacus. The beauty is in the fact that you yourself can decide what each bar represents. Like each if youre counting dollar bills, you can set each bar to a dollar bill value or really anything you want. This allows for certain tricks to do some more complicated calculations. But basically you break down a complex calculation into a bunch of smaller ones, and use the abacus to remember the result.

I learned to use it in first grade in 1960, Argentina. It had 10 bars with ten beads each. Later, I saw the Chinese one with two vertical segments but never figured it out.

Easy, first line represents ones, second 10's third 100's.

Thank goodness we have just about all of the worlds vast resource of knowledge at our fingertips.

It's not hard to learn. As with anything, a little practice and you'll be good to go

You could make one too with beads and wire

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Have you heard of this thing called "the internet"? You can look things up on it and learn stuff. You can learn how to use an abacus in just a few minutes.

yep

Not at all. Such things were worth smelling when they were made out of wood

Only for the red pioneers in the class.

One before her, Laika. And some monkeys, I believe, but dog-wise there was one before this picture who had gone to space and not returned.

According to one researcher 17 dogs died either in-flight or in space as part of the Russian space program. According to the official Russian records it was 5 dogs. The number of other animals is expected to be in the hundreds and include monkeys, apes, cats, tortoises, mice, rats, rabbits, fish, frogs, spiders, and fruit flies.