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Russian Postcards from the U.S.S.R. of Monuments and Building Structures

  • Web Diva
    Leader
    August 27, 2023 9:44 AM CDT
    You have probably never seen the buildings and structures seen in the display of postcards that were made during the Soviet Union years of Russian buildings and monuments. If you are interested in history or architecture, this article may be interesting. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/postcards-from-big-brother-the-curious-propaganda-of-a-brutal-soviet-era?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

    Compared with the sophisticated technology Russia employed to meddle in the 2016 U.S. election, the Soviet propaganda in “Brutal Bloc Postcards,” published by FUEL Design and Publishing, seems downright quaint. Many of these postcards, published by governments of the U.S.S.R. between the 1960s and 1980s, depict the bland, 1960s five-story concrete-paneled apartments known as “khrushchyovka” as if to say, “Look at the modern wonder of collective worker housing!” To Westerners, the boxy buildings telegraph the bleak authority of so-called poured-concrete “Brutalist” architecture, which was somehow popular with both democratic and totalitarian governments during the postwar years.