Breaking Vlad: Street Art Takes On Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin of Russia is a polarizing figure to say the least, as these examples of street art, graffiti and stencils from all over the world illustrate. Considering his position at the ...
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Out Of Limits: 15 Retro-Futuristic Soviet Town Welcome Signs
In Soviet Russia, town welcome you... with retro-futuristic city limits signs that promised more than the blustery, blustering Cold War-era USSR could deliver. The welcome is, er, radiant ...
Staggering Statues: 7 Monumental Wonders of the Former Soviet Union
Nobody could ever accuse the Soviets of being too modest in the scale of their monuments and colossal sculptures, and they left no shortage of absolutely bonkers concrete and stone creations all ...
Unfree Wheeling: Amusingly Surreal Vintage Soviet Auto Ads
The Soviet Union not only manufactured cars, they exported them to buyers charmed (or duped) by some amusingly and bemusingly photographed advertisements. Putin the pedal to the metal ...
Amphibious Folding Motorcycle from Russia Fits in the Trunk of a Car
“How long I’ve wanted this dream to come true,” wails Twisted Sister as a motorcycle zips through a mud pit that’s snatching the boots of its rider in this frankly ridiculous video of the ...
Blood Red: 30 Vintage Soviet Accident Prevention Posters
In Soviet Russia, accident prevent you! That's the message rendered in classic commie-propaganda style via these thirty soviet accident prevention posters. Graphic workplace accident ...
Ghostly Floating Farms: Abandoned Rural Buildings of Russia
The former USSR boasts some of the world’s weirdest and most hauntingly beautiful abandoned structures, from sci-fi monuments to prison camps and military facilities. Many of Russia’s ...
Brutalist but Beautiful: 12 Spacey Sci-Fi Soviet Structures
The single most divisive architectural movement, Brutalism is harsh, jagged and geometric, calling to mind massive concrete spaceships - and nobody did it better (or stranger) than the Soviets. ...
Soviet Bus Stops: Surreal Architectural Roadside Wonders
Standing stark against silent desert backdrops like sculptures made for Burning Man, these leftover Soviet structures are actually bus stops scattered throughout one of the most sparsely ...
Abandoned Ship: Spacecraft Discovered in Huge Derelict Hangar
Remarkably intact and beautifully documented by a Russian urban explorer, this space shuttle prototype rests in a massive above-ground graveyard at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, deserted due to the ...
