The Soviet Union through the eyes of foreigners

In 1953, Stalin died. At this end of an era. Began an endless race for power and each tried to become the face of the country. Political prisoners were released and there was some freedom. Today I would like to show you some interesting photos inhabitants of the USSR during the thaw. While in the American Journal «LIFE», a series of very optimistic and positive pictures "Soviet youth» («Soviet Youth») photographer Bill Eppridge.







Musical number on youth wedding.



Morning procedure.



Concert amateur.



Festive evening.



Dance number.



Relax on the beach. Group shot of a smiling young American photographer for.



Popular whereas chess.



Happy children in a makeshift swimming pool.



Happy hard worker.



Start the Khrushchev thaw. Trahman M. World Festival of Youth and Students. Moscow. 1957



A few years before the visit of American photographer in the Soviet Union in 1959, the Muscovites met representatives and models of Parisian fashion house Christian Dior, and in these pictures Soviet citizens look "a little" in a different way, a more realistic light.



Muscovites in 1959.



Walk through the city center in the company of the locals.



The aesthetic shock suffered by citizens of the Soviet Union, looking at the Parisian beauties in "overseas" clothes, does not require comments - shocked faces the camera lens captures impartial Sochureka Howard (Howard Sochurek) ...



In GUM





Winter is the same in 1959. Young Moscow hard worker.



1959, filling pipes pitch.



Asfaltoukladchitsy in Leningrad in 1961.



Peasant, 1960.



1960



Working Plant, 1961.



Bathers, 1958.



Pioneer camp near Bratsk, 1963.



Akhlomov B. "Lenin". Just arrived in Moscow on Red Square girl.



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