Many remember this phrase spoken General Secretaria The Central Committee of WCP (b) I. V. Stalin on November 17, 1935 in a speech at the first All-Union Meeting of Workers and Workers - Stakhanov. Fully phrase sounded like this: "Living has become better, comrades. Living has become more fun. And when there is a fun, work arms ... If we had badly, it would not be enough, I would not have any Stakhanovsky movement. "
The evil irony phrase is that she was uttered on the eve of the peak of mass repression of the late 1930s. What is unfortunate, and the humor of Comrade Stalin was delicious and this post is dedicated to this
He was such a joker ...

Comrade Stalin possessed a specific sense of humor, specific, but very witty. Sometimes he voiced her decisions and conclusions with humor, but to those who he said it was far from being laughter.
1. When developing a Victory car, it was planned that the car would be called "Motherland". Having learned about this, Stalin ironically asked: "Well, how much will we have a homeland?" The name of the car immediately changed.

2. From the memories of one of Stalin's guards, A. Risbin. At the trips, Stalin often accompanied the guard of Tukov. He sat in the front seat next to the driver and used to fall asleep on the way. Someone from the members of the Politburo, who went with Stalin in the backseat, noticed:
- Comrade Stalin, I do not understand who of you guarded?
"This is what," Joseph Visarionovich replied, "he also put his gun in a raincoat to me - take, they say, just in case!

3. Once Stalin reported that Marshal Rokossovsky had a mistress and this is the famous beauty-actress Valentina Serov. And, they say, what will we do with them now? Stalin took out his mouth tube, a little thought and said:
- What we will be what we will be ... will envy!

4. Stalin walked with the first secretary of the Central Committee of Georgia A. I. Molelaudze in the Alleas of the Kuntsevsky cottage and treated with his lemons who raised himself in his lemongrass:
- Try, here, near Moscow, grown! And so several times, between conversations on other topics:
- Try, good lemons! Finally the interlocutor painted:
- Comrade Stalin, I promise you that in seven years Georgia will provide the country with lemons, and we will not import them from abroad.
- Thank God, guessed! Said Stalin.

5. Designer artillery Systems V.G. Rubby told how Stalin invited him on the eve of 1942 and said:
- Your gun saved Russia. What do you want - Hero of Socialist Labor or Stalinist Prize?
"I don't care, Comrade Stalin."
Dali and the other.

6. During the war, troops under the command of Baghamyan were the first to come to the Baltic. To present this event on the pathoral, the Armenian general personally poured into a bottle of water from Baltic Sea And he ordered his adjutant to fly with this bottle to Moscow to Stalin. That and flew. But while he flew, the Germans counted and dropped the Baltic coast from the Baltic coast. By the time of the arrival of the adjutant in Moscow, it was already aware of this, and the Adutant himself did not know - there was no radio in the plane. And now the proud adjutant is included in Stalin's office and pathetic proclaims: - Comrade Stalin, General Bagramyan sends you the Baltic water! Stalin takes a bottle, a few seconds turns her in his hands, after which he gives back the adjutant and says: - Give back the Baghamyan, say, let it take out where he took.

7. In 1939 he looked "the train goes to the east." The film is not so what the train goes, stops ...
- What is this station? - asked Stalin.
- Demyanovka.
"Here I'm going to go," said Stalin and left the hall.

8. A candidate for the post of minister of the coal industry was discussed.
Suggested the director of one of the Zasadko mines. Someone objected:
- All is well, but it abuses alcohol!
"Invite it to me," said Stalin. Came Zasadko. Stalin began to talk with him and offered to drink.
"I am pleased," said Zasadko, poured a glass of vodka: - For your health, Comrade Stalin! - drank and continued the conversation.
Stalin beat a little bit and, carefully watched, offered on the second. Zasalyko - the second glass of gambling, and in any eye. Stalin offered on the third, but his interlocutor pushed his glass aside and said:
- Zasyadko knows.
Talked. At the meeting of the Politburo, when the question of the minister's candidacy was once again, and again it was announced about the abuse of the alcohol offered candidate, Stalin, who taught the tube, said:
- I know Zasyadko!
And for many years Zasalyko headed our coal industry ...

9. One Colonel-General reported Stalin about the state of affairs. Supreme Commander I looked very pleased and nodded approvingly. After graduating the report, the warlord jumped. Stalin asked: "Do you want to say anything else?"
"Yes, I have a personal question. In Germany, I selected some things that interest me, but they were detained at the checkpoint. If you can, I asked them to return them to me. "
"It's possible. Write a report, I will put the resolution. "
Colonel-General pulled a pre-prepared report from his pocket. Stalin imposed a resolution. The petitioner began to thank hotly.
"Not appreciation," said Stalin.
After reading the resolution written on the report: "Return the Colonel to his junk. I.STalin, "the general turned to the Supreme:" Here is the search, Comrade Stalin. I am not a colonel, but Colonel-General. "
"No, everything is right here, Comrade Colonel," Stalin replied.

10. Admiral I.Isakov since 1938 was a deputy addict Navy. One day in 1946, Stalin called him and said that there is an opinion to appoint it by the head of the Chief Maritime Staff, which year renamed the chief headquarters of the Navy.
Isakov answered: "Comrade Stalin, I have to report to you that I have a serious drawback: one leg amputated."
"Is this the only drawback about which you consider it necessary to report?" - the question followed.
"Yes," confirmed Admiral.
"We used to be the head of the headquarters without a head. Nothing worked. You only have no legs - it's not scary, "Stalin concluded.

11. After the war, Stalin found out that Professor K. "Ostrokhal" near Moscow dear Dacha. He called him to himself and asked: "Is it true that you built a gift for so many thousands?!" "True, Comrade Stalin," the professor responded. "Thank you very much from children's houseWith which you presented this country, "said Stalin and sent him to teach to Novosibirsk.

12. In the fall of 1936, the rumor was spread in the West that Joseph Stalin died from severe illness. Charles Nitter, Correspondent information agency Associated Press, decided to get information from the most reliable source. He went to the Kremlin, where he sent a letter for Stalin, in which he asked: to confirm or refute this hearing.
Stalin answered the journalist immediately: "The gracious sovereign! As far as I know from foreign press messages, I have long left this sinful world and moved to that light. Since the foreign press messages cannot be confident in confidence if you do not want to be crossed out of the list of civilized people, I ask you to believe these reports and not disturb my peace in the silence of the other world.
October 26, 1936. With respect I.STalin. "

13. Somehow foreign correspondents asked Stalin:
"Why is Armenian Mount Ararat, after all, is it not located in Armenia?
Stalin replied:
- On the coat of arms of Turkey is depicted crescent, and he is also not located in Turkey.

14. People's Commissar agriculture Ukraine was summoned to the Politburo, he asked:
- How should I report: Briefly or detailed?
- As you wish, you can briefly, you can detail, but the regulations are three minutes, "Stalin replied.

15. In the Bolshoi Theater prepared a new formulation of the opera Glinka "Ivan Susanin". I listened to the members of the Commission headed by the Chairman of Bolshakov and decided that it was necessary to remove the final "Fight, the Russian people!": Church, patriarchal ...
Reported to Stalin.
"And we do differently: I will leave the final, and Bolshakova will remove."

16. When they decided what to do with the German military fleet, Stalin offered to divide, and Cherchil made a counter offer: "flood". Stalin replies: "Here you are half and top."

17. Stalin arrived at the performance in Hood. theatre. Stanislavsky met him and, stretching his hand said: "Alekseev", calling his real last name.
"Jugashvili," Stalin replied, shaking his hand, and went to his chair.

18. Harriman at the Potsdam conference asked Stalin:
"After the Germans were 18 km in 1941. From Moscow, probably, you are now pleased to share the defeated Berlin? "
"Tsar Alexander reached Paris," Stalin replied.

19. Stalin asked meteorologists, what is the percentage of the accuracy of the forecasts.
- Forty percent, Comrade Stalin.
- And you say on the contrary, and then you will have sixty percent.

20. During the war, Stalin instructed Bayebakov discovery of new petroleum fields. When Baybakov objected that it was impossible, Stalin replied:
- It will be oil, there will be baybanks, there will be no oil, there will be no Baybakov!
Soon, deposits in Tataria and Bashkiria were opened.

From now on, being a consumer in the USSR not only is not enough - it is even patriotic. The government decided that noble Soviet citizens should receive about the same benefits as the property classes before the revolution. By changing themselves, socialism begins to turn into "consumption society"

For three years of the card system, the turnover in the USSR completely upset. Everything is distributed, the ruble is impaired, lost incentive to earn, and hence, work. With the same determination, with which cards, they returned trade now. Instead of the giants of the heavy industry, the "front of the struggle" announced consumer goods. "Fashion goes for money, which we did not have a long time ago," says Stalin in November 1934, the goal of his cool turn. From the locations of the following: it is impossible! But the leader is categorical: from the 35th year we will cancel the cards on bread, and then on everything else. In the country a year and a half ago, millions of people died from hunger, and the ruler at the plenum of the Central Committee dreams that when the market price is established, the buyer will require the buyer for his money only fresh bread "" To bring it in the morning. " Such from Stalin has not yet heard: "We now do not consider with the consumer," as if it was not created by this economic system. The leader finishes his speech by an angry Tirade about the new buildings of the Urals:

Well, right surprise - how do people live there? How much dirt! There is such a terrible life, medieval.

Similarly, only "reserved dischargers" from a foreign press responded about the objects of the five-year plan. But the Lord believes the reality with the new definition of socialism - he, they say, brought not only freedom, "but also the possibility of prosperous and cultural life."

The cherished words "to live better, comrades. It became more fun to live. "Stalin pronounces at the congress of Stakhanov - in the hall where the best" cash modests "of the world of the working class gathered. They are declared by the main consumers of the coming commercial abundance. In the country, the lack of all: clothes and shoes, furniture and dishes, and especially products. The titanic task of market saturation makes the new key figure of the Soviet leadership of the Food Industry of Anastas Mikoyan. In 1935, a member of the Politburo in the 1935th, he has the authority much wider than departmental.

In the US Business Tour, Mikoyan adopts an industrial approach to food. Huge meat processing plants arise in the USSR - including the name of Mikoyan, bolbo-, beer, dairy, confectionery factories. Mastered industrial production Canned and semi-finished products, green peas, condensed milk, sausages - they, according to Mikoyana, "Sign of bourgeois abundance and well-being." Stalin good-naturedly heats the comrades:

Anastas Ivanovich the release of ice cream is most important than socialist construction.

Champagne - the priority of both leaders: a catchy element of chic, you need to enter it into use. Four enterprises will be built, according to the accelerated technology producing "Soviet champagne". They say, the bourgeoisie is used abroad, and we have it on the pocket to everyone. Supporter of "Cultipitropita" as a budget replenishment tools, Mikoyan develops the leader's motto:

It's fun to live, it means that it is possible to drink, but drink it so that the mind does not lose and not harm the health.

The food industry, like all industries, is a purely state, and newspaper ads call on: "Require the Ketchup of the Chief Department of Charters in the stores of the Soyuzonservsby!" Mikoyan wants unprecedented first goods to educate consumer habits: we should not wait for a new demand for himself.

True, the famous advertisement "to all try to try, how delicious and gentle crabs" indicates that the Far Eastern Delicates is bothering bad. And before the depthion, he does not reach at all, there continue to stand in the queues for the most necessary. The storefront of the gastronomic diversity is the center of Moscow, and the newspaper chronicle has in the former "Eliseevsky" store on the street of Gorky 38 grades of sausages. The range is expanding the solutions of the Kremlin. Mikoyan will retell in the "Book of Tasty and Healthy Food" Conversation of the mid-30s:

Comrade Stalin asked me a question: "Do we sell somewhere live fish? " "I do not know," I say - probably not sell. " Comrade Stalin continues to trust: "Why not sell? Previously happened. " After that, we pressed this business and now have excellent shops, mainly in Moscow and Leningrad, where they sell up to 19 varieties of live fish.

Another scoreholder, famous for the whole country, is Polina Pearl, the spouse of the premiere of Vyacheslav Molotova, the head of the government of the perfume industry, then the corresponding management of the People's People's Commissariat and the Department. Toilet soap, lipstick, colognes - too state task. The 300th anniversary of the house of Romanovs at the Broquar's Perfumery Factory developed the fragrance "Favorite Bouquet of Empress". "Brocar and Co." - now "New Zarya", Tsaritsyn perfumes are renamed "Red Moskva". When the drug and dairy and fish drug addicts will be allocated from the food industry, the pearl is instructed by Rybprom (the only woman then a member of the government), and then it will lead the textile haberdashery.

It is not necessary to persuade "live better and more fun". Allowed Soviet hedonism was benefited. Stakhanovtsy in the final of their congress after the "International" were killed "march of fun guys" from his beloved by all the film. The author of words, Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, soon composes for another song:

We live fun today,
And tomorrow will be fun!

The Stalinist Words themselves hang in transparencies in schools, DK, at the gate of the parks of culture and recreation, their tireless repeats the propaganda pool of "noble people of the country of the Soviets" includes the nomenclature partners, business students, science and cultural workers, military and security officers above the middle links they can all And even need to live better and better, without fear of more accusations in "overlooking". Restaurants earned again, in Moscow and Leningrad more and more taxis, the elite holds a servant - escaped from the village of Kolkhoznitz. Mayakovsky at one time warned: "There's a terrible in the studio Bjg!", And now only the "left deconstant" Trotsky from emigration accuses Stalin in the rebirth of socialism. But back, to Bolshevik asceticism, the system is no longer returning.

Mentioned in the text phenomena

Cancellation of private trading. All-Union Card System 1931

Instead of trading in the USSR now - supply. A sophisticated card system regulates: who, where, what, how much and how much can buy from products and industrialists

Holodomor 1933.

Having relieved on collectivization, the areas of the "grappling zone" of Urain, Russia and Kazakhstan are starving and extorted: at the end of the 1922th - the first half of 1933, more than 6 million people die of malnutrition. The authorities are making a disaster and almost do not help the population, breaking the resistance of the peasants "collective farm building"

Stakhanov. Stakhanovtsy 1935.

At the Luhanskaya mine, a carefully prepared record was installed: Stakhanov's boomer at a rate of 7 tons per shift mined 102. From this, the Stakhanov movement begins - a campaign for improving labor productivity and the creation of the Soviet working aristocracy begins

Gorky city. Gorkogo Street. Gorky Park 1932.

Claiming the Maxim Gorky in the USSR finally returned to the USSR soviet culture and partly - the second person in the country, in honor of him is renamed Nizhny Novgorod, Main Street of Moscow and many central cultural and recreation facilities

A book about tasty and healthy food 1952

Apparently, to find the post-war difficulties overcome, produced the first mass circulation of the main Soviet cookbook. Reprinted repeatedly, it will eventually look like a vault of non-existent products and dishes.

"Merry guys" 1934

The first was removed in the USSR Music Cinema - best creation Gregory Alexandrova, the main master of the genre. The reference sample of Hollywood in Soviet, the film bases the spectacle in the country and lights the superstar: the love of Orlov and Leonid Rockov. Isaac Dunaevsky for two decades - the main domestic kinocompositor

Park of culture and recreation. Girl with oars 1935

The format of cultural and recreation parks is obtained by the final aesthetic design when the statues of the "Girl with Padl" are installed: naked in Moscow and in a swimsuit - in many other cities

Domrabotans 1933.

The Soviet type of servants was formed - first of all, this is a young woman who escaped from a collective farm in the hope of city working and personal career

"The best, talented poet" 1935

Appointed main soviet poet. Stalin's review canonizes Vladimir Mayakovsky - but not a banging futurist, and the provisions of the Agitator, Gorlana-Raster "coinciding with the tasks

Killed Trotsky 1940.

The NKVD agent liquidates in Mexico City Leo Trotsky, whom Stalin considered his competitor in the global communist movement. According to the Soviet version, the murder was committed by Trotskyist, dissatisfied with his leader. The killer on interrogations of communication with the USSR does not recognize

Period from 1935 to 1940 in domestic history Known, as the time of relative commodity abundance. It was then, in 1935, Stalin, speaking at the first All-Union Meeting of Workers and Workers-Stakhanov, said: "Living has become better, comrades. Living has become more fun. "



At that time food industry Expedited rates increased production volumes. Modern meat processing plants, fish convertible plants, refrigerators, dairy products, plant processing plants, agricultural processing plants, glass containers manufacturing enterprises were built.

At the end of 1935, a resolution of the drug additiveness of the USSR No. 1462 "On the use of advertising methods for the expansion of turnover", which denoted the beginning of the creation of a new centralized advertising system, which came to replace the NEP market element. In the same year, the first Soviet rules for the content of showcases and signs were approved.

On February 1, 1936, Torgsin was abolished. The vacated premises were reconstructed and they have placed the stores "Gastronomy". For state and cooperative stores, the release of trade equipment, elements of outdoor and internal design has established.

In February, a promotional bureau was created at the Georgizdat of the People's Commissariat of the USSR. Posters, leaflets, posters, labels, reference books, radio advertising, light stands, lightweight, waving advertising in trams, rent of poster stands, outdoor advertising - All this was part of the appliance. In the same year 1936, questions are decided on the procedure for spending funds for advertising - advertising costs are approved in the amount of 0.1% of the turnover.

At the end of 1937, Nikomverturtorg creates the All-Union Constor of the SoyuzRelatetorg, designed to serve the Hocormalization of the People's Community System with all types of advertising, produce and sell advertising inventory and equipment. At the same time, by merging the Advertising Bureau of ADTABACISPROME of the USSR and the Advertising Department of the Hellarfumer, a UN SoyuzpinchPromskham was created. An experienced professional artists were involved in the newly created advertising enterprises in the set.

Posters and outdoor advertising acquainted buyers with all trade innovations released at the time abundant: packaged meat and butter, pasteurized milk in bottles, natural juices, fruit waters, dumplings, ice cream, crackers, sausages, fused cheese, broth cubes, mayonnaise, ketchup, curly chocolate.

Of the many printing products of advertising plants, the most spectacular posters was selected and the firewalls were transferred to plywood shields. At the same time, of course, the posters had to increase greatly and sometimes change the composition, configuring the size and configuration of the wall.

Such scaling often led to the most unexpected results. So a poster of the artist of the "Soyuzpishpromrekham" plant S. Prokoptseva, 1938, depicting a pike and a milk piglery with a mayonnaise can, with an increase and transfer to the wall not only wondered inherent in it, but also gave birth to cruel, frightening monsters. The five-story "gastronomy victims" advertise mayonnaise, under which they should be eaten.

Combining trade advertising began in 1940, simultaneously with the emergence of problems in supplying the population with food and industrial goods caused by the preparation for war. With the beginning of the war, any advertising activity in the USSR was completely stopped.

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"In the period of the terrible terror, everyday life strange way Improved. After a long hungry years, after collectivization and everything else, that the people bring to almost complete exhaustion, it would come as if calm. The otmashka gave Stalin himself. He said the famous phrase: "Living has become better, there is more fun." All newspapers repeated her choir. "
Stalin allowed the joy of life. Love, family happiness (divorced it was very difficult), father duty, allowed poetry, allowed reasoning about humanism, blush and decoration. Tango and Foxtrot returned, and Leonid Rockov created Soviet jazz. He had such a song that accurately expresses the spirit of the new time:

On the alleys of the Central Park
The May morning grows.
You can wear a very bright tie
And be in a mine in the hero of labor.
How so: the rested -
And the hero of labor?
I do not understand, explain to me.
Because we have
Everyone young now
In our young beautiful country.

1937 for residents former USSR He became a numerous concept, a symbol of a big terror, a meaningless and merciless conveyor of arrests, torture, trilling and executions. During that year, about 350 thousand servants were destroyed, 315 times more compared with the previous one, 1936. Approximately the same number sent to the camps for "counter-revolutionary crimes".

However, in parallel with Bloody Vakhanalia in the country somehow continued everyday life with its joys and care, newspaper reports about judicial processes Gusto interled with reports of new successes of socialist construction and leggings of brave pilots. And for Western tourists who came to the USSR in 1937, the horror of mass executions and remained at all for the scenes

I suggest to see a small kaleidoscope from visual evidence of that feverish time. .

On January 6, the USSR population was held. However, it preliminary results were almost immediately (10 days later) declared "sodes"; Holding her responsible workers were arrested and repressed. It seems to be not honored several million and did not like it "upstairs."
* In the census of 1937, in the first and last time In our entire history from 1917 to the present days, in questionnaires there was a graph "Religion". It was filled very many, not all over and in those conditions to name themselves believers. And this is after the notorious "five-year plan of worn," (1932-37)! Which served as one of the reasons for the cancellation of the results of the census and repressing it: if the facts do not suit the leadership, the worse for the facts

With an unexpectedly large pump in 1937, the USSR noted the century from the day of the death of A.S. Pushkin (Bueva and Jordansky poster)
At the thirty-seventh year, the century of death of Pushkin was celebrated with a large pomp, millions of editions were published Complete assembly Works.

Pushkin glorified even in the mountain-mari language

Cultural life at all beat the key: citizens called on to actively subscribe to foreign literature

Up to thirty-sixth year, everyone lived in the name of "common cause" and no one thought about private life. She was barely enough to make children. And then suddenly, after the one-sole phrase of Stalin, "there was more fun," everything was changed. People listened.


In 1937, he walked the second year, as "to live better, it became more fun," and the theme of people's happiness was actively played by the authors of the posters.

"Thank you party, thanks to my native Stalin for a happy funny childhood!", 1937
Paints did not lag behind. On this picture of Alexander Deines, we see showing a fashion collection of 1937 in Moscow

Picture "Soviet physical education" A. Samokhvalov wrote in 1937

Erotic motives were not rude. The famous sculpture of the girl with the oars of the work of the Shadra in the Moscow Park Gorky, 1937
* Always believed that the "girl with a paddle" was in shorts. And then somehow did not happen ...
"Girl with a paddle" was in shorts. In the CPKIO installed 2 sculptures of the balls "girls with a paddle". One in 1935, the other in 1937. The first criticized for eroticism and was removed. But the second was nude. Judging by the form in the photo (buildings) it can be 1935 (?)
And "the girl with a paddle" then replaced on dressed, in shorts and t-shirt


In the Caucasus, new resorts were built for workers. City buses on Stalinsky Prospekt in Sochi, 1937

"Citizens of the USSR have the right to rest" V.I.Travkov, 1937

Slowly filled the counters. Appeared smoked fish, caviar, four or even five varieties of cheese. They became everywhere to sell oranges, Spanish. Cafe opened. For example, "cocktail bar" on Gorky Street. There it was possible to drink, sitting in a twilight on a high stool, was considered a riding luxury. And in the "artistic" opposite Mkhata could have a cup of coffee before or after the performance and eat an omelet.

They began to dress better. Women began to go to the hairdressers and making manicure - manicure were even at the factories, "the lips were painted with a red lipstick, the eyebrows pluck. Previously, all dressed the same badly, and now there has been some possibility to be elegant. The mod logs began to be published again. Comrade Pearl, Molotov's wife, was entrusted to respond to the production of spirits, lotions and creams.


Particular attention in the USSR was given to the emancipation of women. In 1937, the fashionable theme was ladies - automotive. "We learn to drive a car", S. Shor, 1937

Communists began to fall in love and start a family. At the same time, new literature appeared, a lyrical poetry returned in the form of verses Simonov and Dolmatovsky, who singer on love under cloudless sky Motherland. It was allowed to even mention Dostoevsky and Yesenin, for which it was necessary to go to jail for a long time.


And motorcyclist! "Motorcycle Mileage Women of Engineers", A. Yar-Kravchenko, 1937


And the pilots, of course. Poster P. Karachezheva, 1937

The theater then had such a success, which later, perhaps, did not have anything else. At nights stood in flights for tickets to get into MCAT and see Kachachakov, Moskvin, Knipper - Chekhov. The most fashionable performance was "Anna Karenina", he even went to Paris.

With tremendous success, "Turbine Days" went. I knew people who went to the "turbine" thirty twice. Bulgakov showed that white officers also had a sense of self-esteem and the concept of honor. They said that Stalin was many times on the performance, sat in the depths of the lodge, hidden from the eyes.


Successful women's way was open to the very top. "Unforgettable Meeting", Vasily Efanov, 1937

1937 was marked by regular success in the industrial and technological development of the country.
On the "turnkey" built by the Americans, the release of automotive factories american models cars.
Chief Conveyor Zisa, I. Shagin, 1937

"I don't know another such country where a man breathes so freely." It sounded without silent on the streets from the reproductors, and in apartments from the "plates", and God forbid in the kitchen or in the communal corridor ask to make fun. They would be informed instantly, there was no shortage in the stubs. It was impossible to hide from avalanche propaganda. Let's say on each wall hung a photo of Lenin and Stalin, called "big friendship". Then, when Khrushchev, it turned out that this is a photomontage: two different pictures - one Lenin, another Stalin - connected to canonizing Stalin during life.


Futuristic locomotive giant "Joseph Stalin" (1937) came to steel highways.


Handsome-ships of unprecedented outlooks were released on water highways, 1937

One of the main events of the year was the opening of the Canal "Moscow - Volga"

He never appeared in humans. He was invisible as God

He never appeared in humans. He was invisible as God. Sometimes called by phone among the night. In Moscow, he had a lot of rumors about his conversations with Pasternak, Ehredburg, Stanislavsky. The actors he invited to speak in the Kremlin. But simple people Could see it only twice a year: at Mausolea during parades of May 1 or seventh of November.

The thrill of human is impossible to describe. Especially in young. I woke up at six in the morning in anticipation of happiness, then we were waiting for hours in the columns ... impatience, fun - played on accordions, sang, carried banners and could not believe that they would see him so close. Should Shergei. When there was a turn to go before the mausoleum, the pace accelerated, the security commanded: wider a step, faster, pass more! And people folded the neck to see as long as possible to capture the gem image of the leader and teachers in memory.

His idol. People shouted "Long live Stalin!" When they were shot, convinced that he did not know about what was going on with them. How then during Patriotic WarThe soldiers died with his name on the lips - it was described by Erenburg, Grossman, Poist.

I have never seen him. The only time when it was possible, I got sick. In the evening, guys, terribly excited, came to me to tell. Very sorry that I was not with them. I listened and once again felt someone else's.


On the canal immediately were transported large group photographers, journalists and writers, following the trip, published a luxurious photo album


However, aviation became the biggest pride of the USSR! In June 1937, the American city of Vancouver met the Soviet aircraft Ant-25 on the command of Chkalov


While the authorities mercilessly destroyed the team composition of the Red Army, the country was slowly preparing for war.
Teaching B. Leningrad region, 1937


"The collective farmers welcome tankers during maneuvers," Ekaterina Zerinov, 1937


In 1937, he reached his peak "Architectural Genocide" - the massive destruction of Orthodox and other temples.
Demolition Alexandro - Nevsky Cathedral in Baku, 1937

At the end of the year, elections were held in the Supreme Council, according to the new Stalin constitution of 1936

The Soviet leadership advertised the success of the country in the West by all means.
The "Nail" of the World Exhibition of 1937 in Paris was the Soviet pavilion with the sculpture of faith mukhina


In 1937, the USSR visited thousands of Western tourists. Inturists in Leningrad, 1937

Back in 1937, the USSR visited the fairly famous German writer Lyon Feburger and wrote about this book