Maxim Mirovich

Two films that debunk the prosperity myth of Brezhnev era are named

Who and who really fed whom in the USSR: a blogger gives facts from the past

A country of widespread poverty: what were the salaries in the USSR and why people became beggars

Not to be envied: what childhood was like for schoolchildren in the USSR

Why did the USSR hate the United States so much? Blogger explains how the Soviets found an overseas enemy

They were raised by Soviet society: stories of maniacs in the USSR

To a brighter future by the road of corpses: what the Soviet leader Lenin was really like

Repression, denunciation, and envy: what the "good people" of the USSR were really like

"We lived poorly but honestly!" How the USSR promoted the normality of total poverty

What Soviet-era schools were like: crowds of clones and many "don'ts"

Children who did not know the word happiness: what a real childhood in the USSR was like. Photo

The Myth of Healthy Eating is Shattered: Why Food in the USSR Caused Early Wrinkles and Gray Hair

A country of continuous "no": prohibitions in the USSR that no fan of the Soviet Union will tell you about

Why there were always queues in the USSR: even cigarettes were not available

"Why me?" Top phrases by which you can recognize a person from the USSR