Humanizing Photos USSR 1958: "Men, Prams and The News"

Trying something new by taking a look at humanizing photography and seeing what I can pull from it. this was just with one single photograph, but I'm thinking that in the future I might do some broader categories or themes and show a couple specific ones. anyways I'm eager for your feedback, there's just many photos I really wish to share with you all!
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[@kristinat298]

Something else that sticks out to me is that one of the strollers is unattended. My dad told me when he visited USSR that people would leave strollers with babies outside when they went into the grocery store or something. Not out of negligence, but instead out of security. People did not feel like their babies were in any harms way in the public.

[@LadyIzdihar]

That's a really nice addition! I didn't think about this

[@sheleavitt06]

Not just in the USSR but in the US and other European countries that was normal. You left the kids outside in the stroller so baby got more sunshine to prevent jaundice and just more fresh air. If you want to see this in a historical drama just watch the BBC Call the Midwife and you’ll see unattended babies in prams all over the place. I’ve seen photos of 1950s New York with strollers and babies left outside the grocery store while their mother did the shopping. It was just normal and no one thought anything about it. Kinda like how in the past no one batted an eye if a mom whipped out her breast to feed her baby in public and now everyone freaks out if she is breastfeeding without a blanket covering the baby. It’s just silly 🙃

[@missdarque]

This still occurs in the Nordic and Scandinavian countries.

[@user-pp7ud6oe1u]

What immediately stood out for me was that the biggest group of those men, by a sizeable margin, is standing in front of the stand that says "Soviet Sports" :-)

[@LadyIzdihar]

I was actually frustrated when editing that I forgot to translate the signs 🥲

[@alf3155]

After talking with my girlfriends grandmother about the СССР, she lived in Kazakhstan, these photos seem more and more familiar. She told me about the normal lives of people and her experiences contradict popular tellings of western media. I appreciate your portrayal of the СССР, because we see another wave of russophobic hatred, especially here in Germany. Salute to you comrade ✊🚩

[@therat1117]

Honestly this reminds me of what used to be usual practice in my own country - fathers and grandfathers used to be very proud to wear a carrying shawl and carry their children and grandchildren out for a walk on weekend mornings. Unfortunately, the dominant culture has turned that into 'women's work', like so many other eroded traditional practices.

[@joshuacovel]

Brilliant! Workers are workers are workers!

[@MrEmbryonicjones]

incredible stroller design is the first thing that pops out; those bad boys don't look like they ever broke and if they did it appears to be a simple and straightforward fix. incredible! compare it to our plastic strollers that must be entirely replaced in some cases

[@iamjoeysteel]

Women in engineering positions were very high, especially compared to the US and some photos of women at work would be nice.

[@BogdanBogdanovichBogdanov]

I like how no ones really watching the babies, implying how safe it is that they’re not worried about anyone running off with their child or anything.

[@avigailpekelman8239]

I really appreciate this kind of content, you usually don't see anything positive about the Soviet Union in mainstream media.

[@MJ_Convey]

I love the photos of Stalin wearing traditional Uzbek clothing. It completely shatters the image of him as a despot with no empathy for the people of the Soviet Union.

[@kylecommunist]

I’m sorry it took me so long to come over from IG ❤️🌹 Thanks for being my entertainment during lunch ☺️

[@LadyIzdihar]

Welcome!! 💖💖💖

[@comrademax57]

Beautiful! Are there any online sites with collections of USSR photos?

[@LadyIzdihar]

Linked in the bio it's the archive the holds the photo I referenced in the video. It's the main site I use for sourcing photography but you have to know Russian

[@imc0000]

Love from Turkey, great channel

[@lars1588]

Pictures like these are always refreshing to see. At least here in the U.S., the USSR is/was depicted the way we depict fictional villians, with the "evil Soviets" going aainst all things that are good and hating everything "American." They aren't depicted in a humanizing or respectful way. Most Americans genuinely believe the lies they've been told about the USSR for decades. Maybe we're just so inundated with fiction that we [Americans] can't perceive history or its people in a realistic, human way. It always has to be fantastcial stories of good guys and bad guys, backwards culture vs. perfect culture, etc. The normal lives of 95% of the people are never depicted, except in that of the "good nation," because only _they_ lived normal, human lives. (sarcasm)

[@therat1117]

Off topic, but maps! The map in the background says 'political map of the world' in Russian, but is interesting as it can be almost exactly dated to between 2011 to 2013, because South Sudan is depicted as a country (in green below Sudan) but Crimea is still shown as part of Ukraine (hard to see but it's still in yellow), whereas most Russian-language made after 2014 show Crimea as part of the Russian Federation. The projection on it is also interesting, as it uses an azimuthal projection rather than the typical pseudocylindrical or Mercator projections seen in most English-language maps.

[@chulafferty6695]

thank you for pointing out that propaganda emanates from every country in the world So do not immediately believe what you are told about another culture or peoples as to who they are, how.they live and what they believe. 🌎👁️💌💜✌️

[@geoffreyparker926]

A lot of what you say is true of our countries as well. Times change.

[@imc0000]

can you share a reading list

[@nicoletazuniga884]

Wow! Do you have a source for the quote?

[@TheDoubleBee]

What, humanizing USSR? That's impossible. Everyone knows USSR was a bleak place devoid of humanity. /sarcasm

[@pawanjeetchoudhary1361]

I never believe on muslims, history taught me😅😅😅