2011
Watchmen (2009) - Trivia
by bouilloire
"Early in the movie, as US-USSR tensions escalate, the 1983 song "99 Luftballons" plays. This song by German singer Nena originates from one of her concerts in Berlin, when her guitarist noticed a mass of balloons being released. He wondered if the balloons drifted over the Berlin Wall to the Soviet (East German) side, whether something so innocent could trigger nuclear war. "
Marrant j'ai étudié cette ignoble chanson en cours d'Allemand en Seconde et à aucun moment la prof n'a mentionné cette anecdote. C'est pourtant ce qui me parait le plus intéressant.
2010
polis: Variations on Urban Housing
In an earlier post on public space in Russia, I briefly mentioned wooden houses with elaborate carvings in smaller cities like Vladimir. Although most are in need of repair, they offer a striking counterpoint to the uniformity of housing blocks from the Soviet era. I've included examples of Vladimir's wooden houses below, along with a few examples of housing blocks for comparison.
An escape into the realm of imagination - but does it float
by gregg
lexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin are the best known of a loosely organized group of Soviet artists known as Paper Architects, who designed much but built little in the early days of Glasnost in the late 1980s.”
2009
Computer Programming - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
by marco
"In Soviet Russia, computers program YOU!" ~ Russian reversal on computer programming
2008
In Soviet Russia, Lake Contaminates You
by jeanruaud
The Mayak Chemical Combine is now credited by the Worldwatch Institute as the creator of the "most polluted spot" in history, a mess whose true magnitude is yet to be known.
Russia | Access to Life
by Spone
Russia, by Alex Majoli
After the fall of the Soviet Union, a wave of drug use swept over Russia, addicting hundreds of thousands of young people. With heroin injection came the spread of HIV, rapidly infecting more than 1 million Russians. Russia’s is among the world’s most rapidly expanding AIDS epidemics, and frequently, those infected are diagnosed too late to be saved.
How the Web Was Won: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com
by jeanruaud & 1 other
Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook, of the Drudg
Vintage Soviet Posters & Soviet Propaganda Posters | International Poster Gallery
Lenin created the first truly modern propaganda machine, and its most colorful, dramatic and original form was the poster.
2007
Boing Boing: CIA secret documents just declassified
by lukeslytalker
The Central Intelligence Agency has just declassified 700 pages of documents about such creepy, strange, and titillating subjects as "cranks, nuts, and screwballs," "Soviet Tactical Laser Weapons," and "USSR-UFO Sightings."
Gagarin in Earth orbit
by kenzie
The Vostok programme (translated as “East”) was a Soviet spaceflight project that succeeded in putting a human - cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin - into Earth orbit for the first time, this day, 1961. During his Vostok 1 flight, Gagarin famously whi...
