Never-Seen-Before Pics Of Stalin-Era USSR By US “Spy” Who Got Deported

It is much higher for women than for men. At least some of these girls are probably alive.

Yeah,they were all in prisons,left on weekend once for making photos.

Yeah,they were all in prisons,and left once during weekend for making photos.

It is the gate of the Red Square.

I really hope you aren't comparing bread lines in USSR with iPhone lines in the west...

How not? iPhones had become a necessity in this world. A human being only has 4 needs: food, shelter, good health, and a strong sense of belonging Everything else, is just corporations trying to sell you things. And that’s what we have more of: the capitalist world is full of TRASH. Also, don’t listen to these people. If the lines really were 948363929495747272729483626 miles long as Reagan and Nixon made us believe, don’t you think the photographer would have shown it? This line is a very small price to pay for free products and high quality products, because Soviet products were made to last, not to sell.

Those people were waiting in line for food, just basic food - not any delicacies nor rarities. The signs read "canned fish, cheese, eggs, butter, tea, coffee" - imagine waiting in a line for such basics! If the food ran out before these people got into store, they'd go home hungry, to hungry families. And they could not go to another store, because most stores were empty, too, and if they were not, they also had lines...

You have no idea what you're talking about do you? Do you understand what those people were waiting in line for? Jeez.

Even in hyper-capitalistic Seoul (okay, exaggerating, but on purpose) you have not poor people waiting in long queues to eat in famous places.

These queues anyway we're typical in the Communist countries well in the 80's. I remember Poland specially.

Stalin did not want the west to know that Russians had to queue for bread and that the shelves were bare. When people like Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo visited Moscow, they created movie-like scenes of abundance. I know very well how people lived after the war--the rationing went on in the UK until the 50s.

This is what Reagan didn’t want us to see: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5.pdf

Also it was free food, high quality food, and SAFE food... you had to work, as in the west, but at the end of the day you could go to sleep relaxed because the state would take care of you. Not like in the west, where everyone kills and competes with each other, products are made to sell, not to last... and even if you work 25 hours a day, you are always on the brink of your company going broke or being fired and not having food for your children.....

You are super right, dude... yeah it’s so clear...also if the line really were 8382948282829292929 miles long as Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon made us believe... don’t you think the photographer would have shown it? .... I have to make longer queues at the supermarket

Maybe you will clarify to the world these words: "reactionary kulaks got dealt with"

A serial killer kills people one by one; a parallel killer kills people simultaneously. It's a kind of a joke about the "series and parallel circuits", in physics (electronics).

In fact, the historical truth is a bit different: the first place and the gold medal, comrade Mao Tse Dun (with 45 to 75 millions kills)! The second place and the silver medal, comrade Stalin (40 to 62 millions). The bronze medal goes to Adolf Hitler (about 20 millions).

stalin did it to his own people , so that's even worse