About 66% of the Russian population regret that the Soviet Union collapsed, according to a 2018 poll. According to reviews, what is missed most about the former Soviet Union was its shared economic system, which granted a modicum of financial stability and also a sense of belonging to a great superpower.
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A tired boy in his mother’s arms on a Moscow street in 1963.
© Sputnik / Dmitryi Donskoy
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A man and a woman in a Zhiguli, in Tolyatti, 1971.
© Sputnik / Yuryi Abramochkin
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Young fathers with their babies on one of Vilnius' streets. Vilnius, Lithuania, 1990.
© Sputnik / Marius Baranauskas
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The restoration of the Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, commonly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow, 1979.
© Sputnik / Vitaliy Karpov
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A sushki factory. Sushki are small, crunchy, mildly sweet bread rings, 1967.
© Sputnik / Yury Artamonov
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Girls from the choreographic studio in the classroom at the Meridian Palace of Culture, 1985.
© Sputnik / Alexander Makarov
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A woman looks at a bronze female sculpture by the French sculptor Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, 1979.
© Sputnik / Boris Kavashkin
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Young couple at Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War, commonly called the Alyosha monument in Murmansk, 1977.
© Sputnik / Valeriy Shustov
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Tourists on an trip to Leningrad (St. Petersburg) at St. Isaac's Cathedral (left), 1952.
© Sputnik / Anatoliy Garanin
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Flight attendants in dance classes at the Leningrad Technical School of Civil Aviation, 1984.
© Sputnik / Igor Gavrilov
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A sentinel at a border post in the Arctic, 1982.
© Sputnik / Boris Babanov
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Newborns in a maternity hospital in Moscow, 1955
© Sputnik / Anatoliy Garanin
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Pupils of the Tashkent orphanage holding melons, watermelons, grapes, and peaches that they grew themselves in their garden, 1983.
© Sputnik / Utarbekov
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People moving to new houses in Orekhovo-Borisovo in Moscow, 1976.
© Sputnik / Yuryi Abramochkin
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Workers at the pig-breeding pavilion of the All-Russian Exhibition Centre (VDNKH) feed a pig with piglets on the lawn in front of the pavilion, 1983.
© Sputnik / Nikolay Lazarenko
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Electricians do a routine inspection of the power grid in the village of Elektrenai, Lithuania, 1984.
© Sputnik / Fred Grinberg
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Pupils from the Naval Nakhimov School exercising on deck, 1988.
© Sputnik / Chernov
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Workers at a bakery in Leninakan (Gyumri) unload fresh chureks (flatbread) from a bread van, 1968.
© Sputnik / Vsevolod Tarasevich
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A training room in a sanatorium in Kislovodsk, 1940.
© Sputnik / Anatoly Garanin
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A telephone exchange on Kalinin Street in Moscow, 1971.
© Sputnik / Yuri Artamonov
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