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Lilli East German/Polish tme (cis)

[lilkakow]

Prague at night during socialist times

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"Blossom, Buryatia!" Soviet poster about the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution

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Alexander Grigorievich Lukashenko as a soldier of the KGB border troops of the USSR (1975)

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"Build as if for yourself", Soviet poster from the perestroika era

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Soviet gymnast and three-time Olympic champion Olga Korbut and her cat Murashka in Grodno, Byelorussian SSR, 1972

[lilkakow]

Soldiers rubbing themselves with snow during morning exercises, 1969. Photo: A. Kogan

[nobrashfestivity]

Andrey Avinoff Icon, Anti Communist Subject [Apocalyptic scene with hammer and sickle], 1940

[lilkakow]

Sometimes I forget Letterboxd is a largely american dominated website

This made me remember

[zitongzi]

Is beknf qieer even illegal on east germany or are the whites just making shit up again

[lucifer-usurping-sun-of-dawn]

no it was rlly good abt it, not that I know much, but I've heard the rights were better than even many western countries in the modern day, the annexation stripped a lotta rights from queers

[stalinist-small-business-owner]

It is especially egregious because a lot of the queer people in east germany lost the protections after the fall of the Berlin Wall and faced mass prosecution.

[flowerlygirls]

gay and bisexual people*

not only is it crazy disrespectful to call them a slur, i can also promise you sodomy laws and similar did not affect any self identified genderqueers or aromantics or nonbinaries or whatever

[clytemnestradidnothingwrong]

Posts that very blatantly reveal the privilege and ignorance of Westerners.

[lilkakow]

Almost no one in this thread is a westerner btw

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Swimming pool in East Berlin, 1976.

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Red Army soldiers kiss after the victory over Nazi Germany is declared, 1945

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"Blossom, Buryatia!" Soviet poster about the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution

[lilkakow]

Alexander Grigorievich Lukashenko as a soldier of the KGB border troops of the USSR (1975)

[lilkakow]

"Get stronger, Soviet-Arab friendship!", Soviet Poster, 1970

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Air ambulance doctors rush to a call in a mountain village. Uzbek SSR. 1970s. Photo by: A. Vanshtein

[lilkakow]

"Build as if for yourself", Soviet poster from the perestroika era

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Do not get distracted (Soviet Poster, 1986)

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A soldier of the limited contingent of the Soviet Army on his native land after the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Uzbek SSR, Termez, August 1988