Old Photos: May Day
Another May Day is here and there is still plenty of time to celebrate by walking around with red flags, playing marching music and shouting the approved slogans:
Long live the unity and close ties of the peoples of the nations of the socialist community! Let strengthen the indissoluble fighting union of the Communist parties of the socialist nations on the basis of the tested principles of Marxism- Leninism and proletarian internationalism!
Fraternal greeting to the working class of the capitalist nations–a selfless fighter against exploitation and the domination of monopolies and for the rights of all workers, for peace, democracy and socialism!
Warm greeting to the people of Latin America, carrying on a courageous struggle against the oppression of imperialist monopolies, against reaction and fascism, for free and independent development, for peace, democracy, and social progress!
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Continue reading →Behind The Iron Curtain: Cosmonautics Day (Multimedia Edition)
April 12th is the Cosmonautics Day celebrating the first manned space flight accomplished on that day in 1961 by the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. I mentioned it last year so today I will just post some pictures and a video clip.
This is the Monument To The Conquerors of Space in Moscow.
Space theme in the Soviet Greeting Cards. Notice that the Soviet postcards didn’t include any text so a person had to actually write something, not just sign their name under some sappy Hallmark verse.
Lastly, this song “Do you know what a guy he was” about Gagarin became the Song of The Year in 1971. Gagarin would have been 75 this year.
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Continue reading →Old Photos: Kansas City Between The Hind Legs
On October 25,1954 Life magazine wrote about the installation of the Hereford Sculpture in Kansas City.
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Old Photos: Neosho,MO
There are too many photos to post,so I am concentrating on the ones with old cars.
The rest of the set by Wallas Kirkland.
Continue reading →Bad Apples
Another foray into the faux Japanese poetry since I can’t count the syllables:
Bad apples,
On the ground
They rot.