ussr Archives - Boing Boing

happy mutants 20th Century Men brilliantly flips the Cold War on its head, with superheroes Thom Dunn

television The time Mikhail Gorbachev starred in a Pizza Hut commercial David Pescovitz
cold war Cold War Soviet gas masks available on Amazon David Pescovitz
Games The strange tale of Runescape's Communist republic Cory Doctorow
spooks Latvia opens up its KGB files and names 4,000+ "informants," many of whom claim they were framed Cory Doctorow
picks What 'Independence Day' Is Like In Transnistria, An Unrecognized Country Inside Moldova Katherine Leipper
books Kickstarting Soviet Daughter, a graphic novel memoir of coming of age in Ukraine after the Revolution Cory Doctorow
Food Watch the (very weird) first USSR television commercial David Pescovitz
History Wacky dudes in Russia open 1940s war ration can and eat it because Russia Xeni Jardin
Boing Boing Gadgets Ad-hoc museums of a failing utopia: photos of Soviet shop-windows Cory Doctorow
propaganda The art of the Soviet propaganda poster Carla Sinclair
art Soviet Ghosts: photographing the abandoned USSR David Pescovitz
soviet E-Stonia: where the free internet now flows like water Jasmina Tesanovic
Science Whatever happened to Russia's Moon lander? Maggie Koerth
politics One more response to Boing Boing post on "Police Pad" gadgets in Georgia, by Some Guy from Georgia Some Guy From Georgia
politics Response to Boing Boing post on "Police Pad" gadgets in Georgia, from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia
News Chernobyl disaster, 25 year later: commemoration around the world Xeni Jardin
Action Anti-piracy enforcers claiming to represent Microsoft used to shut down dissident media in former USSR Cory Doctorow
politics No smoking gun found in JFK assassination docs Rob Beschizza
obituaries RIP Boris Spassky: "one of the greatest chess players of the Soviet era and the world, but also a true gentleman" Ellsworth Toohey