you know you are russian when

“Listen! Moscow is speaking.” Poster by V. Govorkov (USSR, 1949).

because where you'd put it otherwise? in the soup? It'll get wet. in the main dish? It gets into the food and if you don't eat bread you can't share it anymore.

i feel this on so many levels lol whenever we dropped a piece of bread we had to pick it up cross it three times ask the bread to forgive you and give it little kisses then we’d throw it away but yeah

Nato’s secretary general Jens Stoltenberg who said in a press conference earlier today that the missile, which struck Poland on Tuesday killing two people, was probably caused by Ukraine, but it was not Ukraine’s fault.

Autumn. Photo by Rudolf Krupnov (Moscow, 1970s).

Hello, my dear. Here’s a confession, I will love you the whole winter and winters here are eternal.

Flower sellers in Moscow (1959)

Underground pedestrian crossing near the House of Footwear on Leninsky Prospekt. Photo by Yevgrashin (Moscow, 1961).