Color is a coating applied later on to the original truth of the black-and-white photograph — an artifice, a cosmetic. Like the kind used to paint corpses.

Pack de stickers «Lenin». ¡Solo tienes que hacer clic en «Añadir» y puedes empezar a usarlos en Telegram!

Needless to say, these were not Ilyich’s idea. One can only guess how horrified he would have been if he had lived to see them.

We at Bored Panda love to see history come alive, which is why we think you'll also like this series of colorized photos by Russian Flickr user klimbims. Historical life in Russia reads like a novel--which may be why it has been the subject of so many novels--and these vintage photos bring that forgotten way of life into the modern age.

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Набор стикеров «Ленин» — 40 штук, 351453 установок. Добавьте набор в Telegram нажатием одной кнопки.

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Почти 100 лет назад в России началась Февральская революция — событие, резко изменившее ход истории страны. За считаные дни в феврале 1917 года (по юлианскому календарю; по новому стилю эти события происходили в марте) в России пала монархия и установился переходный режим, который через несколько месяцев прекратил существование в результате новой революции. На протяжении десятилетий советской и постсоветской истории именно вторая — Октябрьская — революция считалась основополагающим событием в судьбе России, а Февральской зачастую отводилась менее значимая роль. Чтобы помочь разобраться в значении этих событий, «Медуза» отвечает на стыдные вопросы о первой революции 1917 года.

Ecard text: 'comrade lenin wishes you happy birthday '. About this card: This is the first Wrongcard I created, back in March 2008. I think some part of me was hoping it would annoy both staunch capitalists AND devout communists. But sadly, most of the complaints I receive concern the Easter card collection. Which goes to show how people who enjoy being offended by things can be a little unpredictable.

As always, the birthday of Lenin is a more momentous occasion than the bourgeois holiday Earth Day.

There may indeed be more pressing issues pressing marxism for answers currently, but my interest was piqued by photo, and then a short youtube video, of Vladimir Ilych Lenin tenderly stroking a cat…

Nadezhda Krupskaya was a Marxist activist, a revolutionary, and a dedicated advocate of educational reform in the Soviet Union. She was also the wife of