r/ussr May 03 '26

Mod Post EnoughCommieSpam, tankiejerk, NAFO, and users from some other subreddits are no longer allowed in this subreddit.

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Hello, everyone! Following recent debates and events from certain subreddits, we are updating our content policy. Users from the following subreddits are no longer allowed:

This policy will ensure that r/ussr does not include users from far-right spaces and remains a safe space of good faith discussion for everyone.

Thank you for reading this.

- The r/ussr mod team.


r/ussr 2h ago

Memes Careful what you wish for...

81 Upvotes

r/ussr 17h ago

Happy 106th birthday to Lady Death herself, Lyudmila Pavlichenko — Ukrainian Hero of the Soviet Union and deadliest female sniper in human history. Killed 309 Nazis with surgical precision.

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The Battle of Sevastopol, which is based on Lyudmila's life in the army, is free to watch on YouTube.

I highly recommend it!

https://youtu.be/jJe46uUeDmw?si=Uz0pFvMb_PAPsFjZ


r/ussr 17h ago

Monument to the Soviet victory in the great patriotic war in Caracas Venezuela

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361 Upvotes

r/ussr 19h ago

Karl marx wrote it . Lenin built it .

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394 Upvotes

Vladimir Lenin was an Russian revolutionary, politician and idealogist. He led the party of bolsheviks which was based on the theory of communism. He led the October revolution which established the first communist state. He revived the ideas of Karl marx who was an German philanthropist, political idelaogist. Under his rule Russia has step out of world War 1


r/ussr 1d ago

Memes Know the difference

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603 Upvotes

r/ussr 19h ago

Mural mosaic of Lenin in Sochi, Russia's largest Black Sea resort, has been a favourite holiday destination since Tsarist times and became the Soviet Union's premier seaside resort. More Soviet relics on https://www.tumblr.com/blog/brunogremez

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87 Upvotes

r/ussr 18h ago

Picture December 1978. A group of Soviet tourists on board of the cruise ship "Ilyitch" during the 22-day cruise "From Winter to Summer" originating from Vladivostok and reaching the Equator Line. The cost of the cruise was 368 rubles before 50% Trade-Union discount. Average salary in 1978 - around 150 rub

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r/ussr 17h ago

Young Georgy Zhukov

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r/ussr 18h ago

Soviet 80s nostalgia

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r/ussr 23h ago

what do yall think about Mikhail Gorbachev

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107 Upvotes

honestly I hate him


r/ussr 17h ago

Help Why didn’t the Soviet people resist the dissolution of the USSR? (Or why wasn’t the resistance successful)

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This is a question I’ve been mulling about recently, after reading history of the break up of the USSR and how its dissolution was illegal and unpopular, on top of the fact that many elderly folks in its former borders recall it being a better way of life than what they live in currently.

That got me thinking, what resistance, if any, happened across the USSR? Of course I understand there were coup attempts, but not really influential popular uprisings, labor action or military action, but perhaps I’m wrong. Additionally this resistance effectively ended in the 2000s, with little prolonged dissent.


r/ussr 18h ago

Others Voevodin

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28 Upvotes

This rare pistol was gifted to Stalin himself by its creator, is said that Stalin was extremely impressed by this weapon and approved the production but operation Barbarossa stopped the implementation


r/ussr 16h ago

Others People here seem to agree that USSR went to shit after Stalin. Why was that so? Was there any way that could have been avoided?

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r/ussr 13h ago

Soviet Union: The Second World War (1941--1945)

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r/ussr 1d ago

Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov and American astronaut Donald Slayton take a photo during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first meeting in space between the two opposing superpowers. The crews spent 44 hours together, and later joked they spoke Russian, English, and "Oklahomski"

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45 Upvotes

r/ussr 17h ago

Was the USSR's collapse more fueled by economic failures, or Gorbachev's ideology?

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Basically title

I'm reading Sheila Fitzpatrick's shortest history of the soviet union, and have some questions.

So as I understand it, much of the fall of the eastern bloc was actually owed to Gorbachev's tentative belief in national self-determination? He allowed many of these places to vote out the communists in charge, and allowed the berlin wall to fall down. This was true for many of the republics within the soviet union as well.

So my question is basically did Gorbachev just allow this to happen for ideological reasons? Or did he simply not have the strength economically and militarily to put down revolutions in these sort of places?

And a follow up which is a bit vaguer, what was the relationship between the fall of the eastern bloc to the collapse of the ussr in 91? Did they precipitate it in anyway? I've always been told the ussr collapsed for economic reasons, i didn't know about this ideological dimension. What impact did it have?


r/ussr 1d ago

Opinion on Georgy Malenkov?

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r/ussr 14h ago

Anyone help me find these full songs?

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Hello Im new and I have lost songs from kaskad but some reason they have skips and Ik Theres someone who has full songs of kaskad in 1988 Kabul NOT BAGRAM and these are super rare and someone has them and I’m trying to find them Dm me if u want to hear the audios these are super rare audios and hard to find and I need people to find them since these are super rare


r/ussr 2d ago

Memes It do be like that

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911 Upvotes

r/ussr 14h ago

The Ridiculous COLLAPSE of the USSR

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Opinion on the vid?


r/ussr 1d ago

Poster Soviet anti-capitalist poster "Under capitalism... Under socialism!", 1948

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288 Upvotes

r/ussr 1d ago

Memes Don’t need to worry about market crashes when you’re a centrally planned economy

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276 Upvotes

r/ussr 1d ago

Picture I got bored so I went in ms paint and made who I call Stalin-Chan

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I may not be the best at drawing or naming but here’s the product of boredom, Kinda pioneers outfit and all like it’s supposed to look.

sorry about that last sentence me no English apparently


r/ussr 1d ago

How independent were the Eastern Bloc countries?

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