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Soviet Era Magazine Covers

by Andy on September 4, 2009

Just a quick post today. I came across this fascinating post of Soviet Magazine Covers that I thought you might find interesting.

soviet magazine covers

Lyndon in particular might notice that they’ve linked back to Scraps of Moscow.

My favourite cover image has to be #4 The Atheist, which brilliantly depicts a Soviet worker dumping a shocked Jesus (halo and all) out of a wheelbarrow.

Tagged as: History, magazines, soviet life, soviet magazines

{ 6 comments }

Mark Thomson September 4, 2009 at 3:33 pm: Hi Guys,

I’m new here. I was surfing for Soviet magazine covers, and stumbled across your blog. Great site! As far as the covers go, they’re all cool, but that one with the glaf being hoisted on the Reichstag…it makes you think they had photoshop back then! Look at it…those silhouettes of the guys on the edge, plus the way the sickle emblem just blazes out there. It’s at least got to have been posed. What do you think? (Wasn’t that photo of all the Americans hoisting the flag on Iwo Jima later admitted to be staged?
Mark Thomson September 4, 2009 at 3:35 pm: “glaf”?? Sheesh, could I have been typing any faster? Let’s try “Flag!”
db September 4, 2009 at 3:55 pm: … It�s at least got to have been posed. What do you think?

http://glavred.info/archive/2006/05/06/171958-2.html
Andy September 4, 2009 at 4:27 pm: Hi Mark, and thanks for visiting. Yep, the photo was staged – I wrote about it here, last year:

http://www.siberianlight.net/hammer-and-sickle-reichsta/

At 10:40am on 30 April 1945 Mikhail Petrovich Minin scrambled to the top of the ruined Reichstag, and raised the Soviet flag. Unfortunately for him, though, the flag came off the next day during a desperate German counter attack.

So, ever mindful of the benefits of a nice bit of propaganda, two days later on 2 May the Soviets sent two different soldiers and a photographer up to the roof to do it properly.
Alex September 24, 2009 at 5:09 pm: I was looking for Russian pics and found this post ! wow ! thanks for information and the pictures
Antonio Garcia September 25, 2009 at 11:50 pm: I’ve read books depicting Old Red Propaganda.