Those of you who just read the title of this post, were probably expecting to see Yuri Gagarin, well this post isn’t about him. Not many may know this, but in the 1950s, way before USSR had put it’s first man into space, they were actively using domestic animals while developing their space program. As you can see here they are using a piggy, It doesn’t really look like this piggy went as high up as “space”, it was most likely a test flight of a certain components. Later on the Soviets had used dogs which they flew all the way into space…
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When it comes to fashion, USSR was nowhere near it’s European “rivals”, mostly because it wasn’t really trying to compete. People in the USSR dressed up simple and often similar to eachother since there wasn’t much stuff to choose from, but the designers were still doing their job at trying to project some of the future fashion trends…
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Just few pictures of Russian stars & what they looked like when they were younger…
Kseniya Sobchak, famous for being famous…
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So what is it that prevents Russian cops, from being an effective and good police force? Apparently it’s their old and insufficient equipment, as a result they were recently given some new stuff, because that will supposedly fix all their problems…
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We already did a story about one unstoppable Russian truck before, and you might even remember this picture, now here is another one…
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Мужик приходит в страховую компанию:
- Застрахерьте меня, пожалуйста.
- Мужчина вы что обалдели матом тут ругаться?
- Как будто застрахуйте звучит лучше!!!
Сидят две бабульки на лавочке. Одна другую спрашивает:
- Ты помнишь, как меня зовут?
Другая задумалась и говорит:
- Тебе срочно?
There were a lot of different sodas that you could buy back in the USSR days. Surprisingly there even was a variety of different flavors; orange, pear, cranberry, apricot, apple, and of course the good old lemonade…
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Almost every worker/official in the USSR had a special assigned cap that they were supposed to wear for their job. Here is what those caps had looked like…
- Aeroflot First Pilot (Captain)...
As you can see, this guy carries a piece of wood in a very special and “secure” way by holding it outside the car, unfortunately this whole method of carrying stuff outside your car is quite popular in Russia…
It’s not uncommon for small Russian villages to have ridiculous names, we already showed you one village that calls itself Paris. Now take a look at more villages with hilarious name. There would be no point trying to translate these into English so just skip this post if you don’t speak Russian…
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Here is our fan number 4, Michael from Ottawa, Canada who as you can see has a very clever license plate!!!
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Here is our fan number 3, Jeffery from Texas who is a cinematographer, videographer, as well as the editor!!!
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We already did a big gallery about the Bad Parking in Russia, and recently we have shown you a new example of selfish parking. This story comes to us from Ukraine, where a beginner female driver had parked her car right in the middle of the streetcar tracks…
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We try to cover most of the KVN Season, so here are some of the latest best clips from the annual competition that they had in Jurmala…
