Uploads from roomman, tagged sssr

Good morning Warsaw!

nobody@flickr.com (roomman) — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:06:52 -0700

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View from my room in the 26th floor, with the Cultural Palace in the foreground.

Ludwig and Haris in Warsaw

nobody@flickr.com (roomman) — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:06:49 -0700

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Russian Beauty

nobody@flickr.com (roomman) — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:46:50 -0700

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Instruments

nobody@flickr.com (roomman) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:10:24 -0700

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The engine panel in this classic airliner.

All-Russian Exhibition

nobody@flickr.com (roomman) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:05:36 -0700

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There's a lot to see at the All-Russian Exhibition Centre (Всероссийский выставочный центр).

Rocket launch

nobody@flickr.com (roomman) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:00:36 -0700

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Ready for take-of? The old rocket which was used by Yuri Gagarin for the first manned flight in space!

Flightdeck of a JAK-42 jet

nobody@flickr.com (roomman) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:57:51 -0700

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Nice old flightdeck, without any LCDs. This once was the prototype testbed aircraft and was shown at Paris Le-Bourget airshow as well. However it never managed to get the success and therefore, only few aircraft are still flying worldwide, mainly in Russia.

Economic achievements

nobody@flickr.com (roomman) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:46:02 -0700

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Once an exhibition of the economic achievements of the Soviet Union, the area still wearing this name now hosts as a mixture of fake-Disneyland and marketplace for cheap rubbish from China. There's an excellent article about this, however in German: www.oei.fu-berlin.de/media/publikationen/boi/boi_11/30_mo...

Relaxing at the weekend

nobody@flickr.com (roomman) — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:28:57 -0800

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That's how it should be on a weekend like this: spending the weekend abroad, exploring, enjoying. And then checking the souvenirs and papers, like the old CCCP/SSSR-atlas, or the latest Sueddeutsche-Magazin. Now good night! :-)

A classic

nobody@flickr.com (roomman) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:14:23 -0700

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The entrance-option

nobody@flickr.com (roomman) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:18:56 -0700

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It's worth to learn at least some words in Russian... ;-)

The downfall

nobody@flickr.com (roomman) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:41:22 -0700

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What has been once a proud exhibition, now converts slowly into a debauched fun-fair. Most pavilions of the Exhibition of the economic achievements of the Soviet Union are now closed and deserted...

CCCP

nobody@flickr.com (roomman) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:35:38 -0700

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Sign from the past...

Unknown communist

nobody@flickr.com (roomman) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:54:25 -0700

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It was once a fashion in communist Russia to create communist-style monuments.

However in the beginning 1990s, it became yet another fashion to demolish those monuments again.

The third (and so far final) step was then to store those fallen monuments into a special outside park: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Monument_Park and www.muzeon.ru/museum.htm (in Russian only)

Communist Egypt?

nobody@flickr.com (roomman) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:15:16 -0800

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This mural painting seems to date back to times when Russia tried to establish some communistic power outside their core countries by supporting other countries.