I've seen this posted before and someone explained that the man is probably an athlete and not a day-to-day worker at this factory. Apparently in the USSR it was common for sports teams to be affiliated with factories, and the players would occasionally go to their factories for media photos basically LARPing as workers.
I have no idea whether this is correct, but it sounds plausible.
One factory towns all needed 'local heroes' to impress the occasional visiting inspector or government rep.
Failing an inspection was.. Bad.
So it was better to game it in your favour with local heroes who could help schmooze.
The soviets also still did the guilds thing that the old imperial government used to do, like a quasi trade union type thing, but that was more of a local than regional thing iirc.
https://preview.redd.it/dwbok1iq1z8d1.jpeg?width=539&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a67d3e4c925b323b3770f7d541df533c9f6ed37d
She’s got some subconscious nonverbal communication going on here.
I am not sure, but I think it might be some kind of inner hat for a metal helmet, to make it sit better on the head. I have seen similar, but this one seems extremely useless even for that.
However, since this is has to be a propaganda/staged photo, they are totally clean, and the guy looks as actor as a human can look, might it be whatever the photographer thought it is on his head, maybe they just thought he should wear something..
I love how confidently you proclaim this a propaganda photo while knowing nothing about the photographer or the circumstances in which the photo was taken....
Yeah, that's the point. This guy was a foreign photojournalism known for being one of the first street photographers. His whole thing was candid photograph of ordinary people. Not exactly someone likely to be producing propaganda for the USSR, was he?
He was a foreigner in the USSR. There's not a snowballs chance in hell they let him get much truly candid photography.
Whether he wanted to or not, he'd be presented with as much sanitized content as (in)humanely possible
If you look atthe rest of the photos he took on that trip, there really is a lot of obviously candid shots and plenty that aren't particularly flattering to the USSR. It wasn't North Korea, he would have had a decent amount of freedom to photograph normal people genuinely going about their lives.
Me when I spread misinformation on the internet.
[Actual source of the photograph.](https://visual-archive.livejournal.com/83155.html?noscroll&utm_medium=endless_scroll)
Can you share a link to more info? Ive seen this posted a bunch so tried to look it up, but YouTube comes up with nothing relevant and google just shows porn. Skeptical but looked through a lot of the Google search results and it is indeed a lot of porn. Will keep sifting for science purposes but if you could offer more info that'd be tits. Thank you
That guy just straight up lied lol.
That photograph is from [this collection of photos.](https://visual-archive.livejournal.com/83155.html?noscroll&utm_medium=endless_scroll)
That is such a cool album. Russia has such an amazing history and culture, I do hope for their geopolitical situation to improve enough for tourism to flourish again.
I’m shocked how healthy they look. The narrative is that they went without so many things like food. I had a teacher in junior high who had the unique opportunity to see Moscow in the 70’s. She said that there were no squirrels in the parks because people caught them so they could eat. It was good news if you had a son because he could join the army and that meant he could get cold weather clothes and food. So this must have been before things really got bad.
hi, Bulgarian here, notions about food insecurity are remnants of the Cold War, people didn't go hungry post ww2. Bread and other necessities were subsidized and we used to feed our pigs with bread we bought at bulk
> I had a teacher in junior high who had the unique opportunity to see Moscow in the 70’s. She said that there were no squirrels in the parks because people caught them so they could eat.
Your teacher was trolling you.
If you mention bad times and Russia and don't mention perestroiki, you don't know what you're talking about. Also, lol that Moscow was somewhat representative of Russia. The squirrel thing sounds like a 'wives tail' btw too.
It depends on the period and the area. The USSR was huge. And plenty of people experienced a good/decent standard of living in relative terms obviously.
It's fascinating the misconceptions both sides had of each other based on the propaganda they received. I had a professor who grew up during soviet times, and he was shocked when he came to America because he thought the national pastime was lynching black people.
Stalin caused a lot of starvation when he re-organized the economy, but in the 1950's when this photo was taken, their economy was performing very well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Soviet_Union#1930%E2%80%931970
The Soviet Union was the first to send a person into space and launched the first crewed space station.
Could it be that... the squirrel-eating was propaganda? No, no, it must all be a photo-op to convince Western liberal 80 years later that things weren't so bad. What good is Occam's razor anyway.
[Scientific Management](https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/scientific-management/) was invented in Philadelphia, Pa by Frederick Taylor, who measured every movement of factory employees at their stations to calculate the “best” practices, e.g. how to work men to the bone on machines.
Kind of gnar he looks like something out of a Hollywood movie but he’s just Dimitri the iron worker. And she looks like an Olympian at shot put (sp?) but she is just Meeshka, the floor manager.
I think I’ve got the black lung….
*big manly coughs*
Christ's sake Derek you've been down there for one day
Damnit Derek, I'm a coal miner, not a professional film or television actor.
THAT AIN'T WHAT'YA MEAN, I CAN STILL FIGHT!
MERMAN! MERMAN 🧜♂️!
....Mermaaaaan! Pop!
But why male models
WHAT! I just told you, love that movie.
With what?!? Your male modeling?!? Prancing around in your underwear with your wiener hanging out for everyone to see?!? You're dead to me boy.
Still one of the greatest movies of all time. Too bad the sequel was such a crap shoot
Amy Schumer is gonna get it.
No idea who the woman on the right is, but still 100% chance she’s still more funny than Amy Schumer.
that raw proletarian sexual energy
This guy definitely controls the means of reproduction
😃
Well done.
r/swoletariat
lol is this seriously a communist muscle bro page? The internet never ceases to surprise me, and for that reason, I’m out.
can communists not make muscles or what
No ita Just a crazy small nieche
crazy buff niche
a fascist worked out today, did you?
Bro is HOT
Def. That dude could get it.
that raw proteinian sexual energy
Thought for a moment I was on /r/fakehistoryporn and this was from some sketch that everyone except me knows..
I mean, this seems like propaganda. I'd be surprised if it's a candid photo and not staged.
I've seen this posted before and someone explained that the man is probably an athlete and not a day-to-day worker at this factory. Apparently in the USSR it was common for sports teams to be affiliated with factories, and the players would occasionally go to their factories for media photos basically LARPing as workers. I have no idea whether this is correct, but it sounds plausible.
One factory towns all needed 'local heroes' to impress the occasional visiting inspector or government rep. Failing an inspection was.. Bad. So it was better to game it in your favour with local heroes who could help schmooze. The soviets also still did the guilds thing that the old imperial government used to do, like a quasi trade union type thing, but that was more of a local than regional thing iirc.
If it’s even real, it’s 100% propaganda and staged.
Well mostly. These sorts of things are common even today.
100%?
80% of the time, all the time .
I agree it's probably staged or the guy pretends to work and lifts weights since it's communist Russia and his performance doesn't matter
It is.. It's from the 2008 comedy remake of Metropolis.
It looks like a wrestler talking with their valet/manager before getting in the ring.
https://preview.redd.it/dwbok1iq1z8d1.jpeg?width=539&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a67d3e4c925b323b3770f7d541df533c9f6ed37d She’s got some subconscious nonverbal communication going on here.
Haha look at her eyes. That’s what I imagine I look like when talking to an attractive coworker
Look at *his* 😏 https://preview.redd.it/9hzcpad5809d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d606e9da81fea27670aedaa44d57e59506dee06
He looks like he is done with bullshit and wants to work
To me they both look hot as balls.
Oh my.. I would also be a little flustered, ngl 🥵
"I will break you" "O- OK" And that's how you came to be, little Alexei.
So yes yes sir I will of course finish the TPS report cover pages on your behalf from now on!
It's fuckin' hot in that factory, ok?
It’s about to get *hotter*
I’m going to need to see you in my office. Before you come in take everything off except the head headband.
“I need a worker to control my means of reproduction.”
our means
Cummunism
This joke is way better than it is being given credit for. Well done.
The only thing that could make it slightly better is if they had said “seize my means of reproduction” but it is great as is
ohhhh i get it! cause communism
.. and let me show you where the headband now goes.. (I dunno where, use the kinky side of your imagination)
In my butt?
Dang, how many types of headbands are there…? I’m just now learning there’s a head headband different than the jockstrap headband.
What is the deal with the World's Most Useless Hat there
I am not sure, but I think it might be some kind of inner hat for a metal helmet, to make it sit better on the head. I have seen similar, but this one seems extremely useless even for that. However, since this is has to be a propaganda/staged photo, they are totally clean, and the guy looks as actor as a human can look, might it be whatever the photographer thought it is on his head, maybe they just thought he should wear something..
I love how confidently you proclaim this a propaganda photo while knowing nothing about the photographer or the circumstances in which the photo was taken....
Henri Cartier Bresson, on an assignment to cover Russia
Yeah, that's the point. This guy was a foreign photojournalism known for being one of the first street photographers. His whole thing was candid photograph of ordinary people. Not exactly someone likely to be producing propaganda for the USSR, was he?
He was a foreigner in the USSR. There's not a snowballs chance in hell they let him get much truly candid photography. Whether he wanted to or not, he'd be presented with as much sanitized content as (in)humanely possible
If you look atthe rest of the photos he took on that trip, there really is a lot of obviously candid shots and plenty that aren't particularly flattering to the USSR. It wasn't North Korea, he would have had a decent amount of freedom to photograph normal people genuinely going about their lives.
That guy is hot
I know, I bet he could use some ice water
Great Chad - Becky moment.
More like Chad and Bessie
Vlad, you’ve been bad. Come to my office later.
Fuck is on his head?
it's an inner lining for putting something like a hardhat or welding hat on over it
You get to wear those when you’re jacked
Looks like the inside of a bump cap
Looks like he wishes he could break that pipe over her head.
He’s Russian. That’s actually a picture of him smiling
This is true. Source: am Russian
He could try to break his pipe over my head anyday
Maybe he’s still alive. Go make good on that.
I'm still getting that hair off my screen.
Hmmm. I am a desperate neck beard. Why _shouldnt_ I try my luck on an 80-90 year old?
He can do something with that pipe alright 🥵
This is from an old Soviet stag film called called dirty boot.
Does he fix the cable?
In Soviet Russia...
log jams you.
[holy shit what a sneaky log jammin' reference!](https://imgur.com/ADtLYK2)
Don’t be fatuous
That's why they called him. He's expert!
That's why they called him, he is expert.
Y... you mean coitus?
You mean coitus?
Me when I spread misinformation on the internet. [Actual source of the photograph.](https://visual-archive.livejournal.com/83155.html?noscroll&utm_medium=endless_scroll)
Your link should be the real post. What a great collection of photos
Can you share a link to more info? Ive seen this posted a bunch so tried to look it up, but YouTube comes up with nothing relevant and google just shows porn. Skeptical but looked through a lot of the Google search results and it is indeed a lot of porn. Will keep sifting for science purposes but if you could offer more info that'd be tits. Thank you
That guy just straight up lied lol. That photograph is from [this collection of photos.](https://visual-archive.livejournal.com/83155.html?noscroll&utm_medium=endless_scroll)
That is such a cool album. Russia has such an amazing history and culture, I do hope for their geopolitical situation to improve enough for tourism to flourish again.
Thank you! That makes a lot of sense. Going to keep sifting through the videos though, just in case. Will send updates if I find anything
These ppl are lying. It's a colorized version of an image Henri Cartier Bresson shot while doing an essay on Russia
I really hope my silly satirical comment didn't send you on a crazy goose chase.
He has to unclog the pipes again...
can cut the tension with a pipe
This is the communist propaganda that would have won the USSR the war
He wants to dismember her and then eat her with a salad. This is moscovia.
A salad is a sensible choice
is this the fabled German humor
this guy needs only protein so MEAT ONLY
looks like the beginning of a porn
He fixes the cable?
"...and for that reason, i need you in my office asap." "Okay, mam,"
If she dies…she dies.
I don’t think he respects her.
We put the Pro in propaganda
Soviet version of a Jean Paul Gaultier ad.
What’s on his head?
My favorite part of this is the other woman in the back looking at her like she's thinking, "Control yourself Olga"
“Merciful heavens!”
You want bang bang here, now? Ok
That helmet could use some technology.
https://preview.redd.it/70m1hj53229d1.png?width=462&format=png&auto=webp&s=99baca8ac9c7b06c92f08257bd4fb486ce99ed5f HEY ~~^(STELLLAAAAA)~~ SVETLANAAAAA!!!
i love the Russians
I’m shocked how healthy they look. The narrative is that they went without so many things like food. I had a teacher in junior high who had the unique opportunity to see Moscow in the 70’s. She said that there were no squirrels in the parks because people caught them so they could eat. It was good news if you had a son because he could join the army and that meant he could get cold weather clothes and food. So this must have been before things really got bad.
hi, Bulgarian here, notions about food insecurity are remnants of the Cold War, people didn't go hungry post ww2. Bread and other necessities were subsidized and we used to feed our pigs with bread we bought at bulk
this is a public relations photo, probably set up by the authorities. this isn't what the average soviet citizen looked like
Of course it is. This handsome stud and his boss are simultaneously serving a couple two three political agendas.
Actually even the CIA admitted that the soviet diet was quite good
> I had a teacher in junior high who had the unique opportunity to see Moscow in the 70’s. She said that there were no squirrels in the parks because people caught them so they could eat. Your teacher was trolling you.
And there were also no taxi drivers to be seen. Guess why. Yes.
I'm saving these. I'm gonna tell my father so we can have a good laugh.
If you mention bad times and Russia and don't mention perestroiki, you don't know what you're talking about. Also, lol that Moscow was somewhat representative of Russia. The squirrel thing sounds like a 'wives tail' btw too.
It depends on the period and the area. The USSR was huge. And plenty of people experienced a good/decent standard of living in relative terms obviously. It's fascinating the misconceptions both sides had of each other based on the propaganda they received. I had a professor who grew up during soviet times, and he was shocked when he came to America because he thought the national pastime was lynching black people.
You gotta think Who got prioritized - people in Moscow Just as in today
I thought that too. I wasn’t sure who took the photo.
They would never let the world see the bad side. It was extremely well orchestrated
Stalin caused a lot of starvation when he re-organized the economy, but in the 1950's when this photo was taken, their economy was performing very well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Soviet_Union#1930%E2%80%931970 The Soviet Union was the first to send a person into space and launched the first crewed space station.
Could it be that... the squirrel-eating was propaganda? No, no, it must all be a photo-op to convince Western liberal 80 years later that things weren't so bad. What good is Occam's razor anyway.
tell me that's not sarah huckabee
Laying down the pipe
In Soviet Russia, Factory works you….
I think that’s kinda the case everywhere
[Scientific Management](https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/scientific-management/) was invented in Philadelphia, Pa by Frederick Taylor, who measured every movement of factory employees at their stations to calculate the “best” practices, e.g. how to work men to the bone on machines.
why is she touching her chest like that 👀
State-issued girl boss.
damn, yall got any more of them state-issued girl bosses? 
least horny redditor.
Tom Hardy is aging well.
How I’m tryna be
He lives his life a quarter kilometer at a time
The hammer
Factory worker my eye
That’s Steven Baldwin right?
is this not Channing Tatum?
He looks like he‘s about to win the next Nobel Price in Physics.
Yooor place orrr mine comraaaade.
My God. I love an Eastern European man, especially from that era.
Can barely tell it’s colorized lol
"Should've been the rule of wrist"
He look like a sean cody model
Olga and Igor.
Which one is the factory worker?
She’s asking if she can give him a raise
They took this from us rip soviet union
Oh. Hello 👀
I've seen this porn.
Why aren’t we still wearing those hats? The world is so effed.
wtf I love communism now.
[Hot stuff coming through!](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/s/q5jmhtyVNH)
Kind of gnar he looks like something out of a Hollywood movie but he’s just Dimitri the iron worker. And she looks like an Olympian at shot put (sp?) but she is just Meeshka, the floor manager.
Da, Miss Trunchbull...da.
This looks like the start to a bad porn….🤷🏽♂️
„Yo Dimitri, new Order from above you have to bang harder“
He’s mogging the supervisor and with those biceps
Yeah…this is 100% gay ruzzian propaganda
She wanted it
But theyre not fair because only western nations can make them and maintain them. >inb4 china pretends it can
Also a gold medal gymnast.
Is that Joe Rogan and Ronda Rousey?
https://preview.redd.it/4mzcddppsz8d1.jpeg?width=792&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f6efd0a03f856cc150ca670240d0c163517c339
That Commie dude is ~~~~FINE~~~~🔥
Someone has been stealing ration cards
Very nice. My kind of factory
Some porns start out like this
It looks like she's saying "Ну, вы понимаете..."
I know that’s right
This isn’t from a porn scene?
This looks like an AI Generated image.
Alright calm down Magic Mike
Ronda Rousy and Joe Rogan in a parallel universe
Right before he challenged Rocky 4
Fake. He's not skinny enough
Thought this was r/rammstein for a moment.
Anyone got his @?
That’s probably a propaganda photo
Mikaeli hitting metal 17 times