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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

my-ear-trumpet: Beware of the wheels! Unknown artist, 1926 “Beware of the wheels! In 1925 there were 200 people run over by tramways”. (SOURCE of image and translation is A Soviet Poster A Day)

my-ear-trumpet:

Beware of the wheels!
Unknown artist, 1926

“Beware of the wheels! In 1925 there were 200 people run over by tramways”. (SOURCE of image and translation is A Soviet Poster A Day)

(via prettypariah)

tkohl:

1930’s Soviet tourism posters…if they only knew what was to come…

See “The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор, “Extermination by hunger”; ‘Морити голодом’, hunger-extermination) was a man-made famine in the Ukrainian SSR and adjacent Cossack territories between 1932 and 1933. During the famine, which is also known as the “Terror-Famine in Ukraine” and “Famine-Genocide in Ukraine”, millions of Ukrainians and Cossacks died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of Ukraine.”

(via ddr-and-soviet-romanticizing)

rosswolfe: Soviet poster, 1924: Let’s build a dirigible squadron in the name of Lenin!

rosswolfe:

Soviet poster, 1924: Let’s build a dirigible squadron in the name of Lenin!

soviet-posters: Коллективизация 1929 Collectivization 1929 Read more about Collectivization in the Soviet Union 

soviet-posters:

Коллективизация 1929

Collectivization 1929

Read more about Collectivization in the Soviet Union 

earwigbiscuits: Soviet poster for The Shooting of Dan McGrew, starring Barbara La Marr (1927) …via Dieselpunks

earwigbiscuits:

Soviet poster for The Shooting of Dan McGrew, starring Barbara La Marr (1927) …via Dieselpunks

katillius: fuldagap: Народ, Армия, Сталин - Спасли тебя, Москва! / The people, the Army, Stalin - has saved you, Moscow! 1947 -So, how’d that Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact work out for ya, USSR? yo, is that dude got two M24 grenades tied together?!  “This Russia! One grenade not enough for killing Gans!!” Where is Stalin? Is he in your pocket comrade?

katillius:

fuldagap:

Народ, Армия, Сталин - Спасли тебя, Москва! / The people, the Army, Stalin - has saved you, Moscow!

1947 -So, how’d that Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact work out for ya, USSR?

yo, is that dude got two M24 grenades tied together?! 

“This Russia! One grenade not enough for killing Gans!!”

Where is Stalin? Is he in your pocket comrade?

Beware of the wheels! Unknown artist, 1926 “Beware of the wheels! In 1925 there were 200 people run over by tramways”. (SOURCE of image and translation is A Soviet Poster A Day)

Beware of the wheels!
Unknown artist, 1926

“Beware of the wheels! In 1925 there were 200 people run over by tramways”. (SOURCE of image and translation is A Soviet Poster A Day)

thesebooksareolderthanyou: micromermaid: “Knowledge will break the chains of slavery.” Znaniye razorvet tsepi rabstva [Knowledge Will Break the Chains of Slavery], a poster by Alexei Radakov (1872-1942). Published by GIZ, Petrograd, 1920. 90 x 60 cm.

thesebooksareolderthanyou:

micromermaid:

“Knowledge will break the chains of slavery.”

Znaniye razorvet tsepi rabstva [Knowledge Will Break the Chains of Slavery], a poster by Alexei Radakov (1872-1942). Published by GIZ, Petrograd, 1920. 90 x 60 cm.

micromermaid: “Knowledge will break the chains of slavery.”

micromermaid:

“Knowledge will break the chains of slavery.”

(via zerogate)

feastingonroadkill: Soviet poster. “Illiterate is the same as blind” “Illiterate (person) is the same as blind, everywhere he is being waited for by failure and misfortune.” (From Soviet poster)

feastingonroadkill:

Soviet poster.

“Illiterate is the same as blind”

“Illiterate (person) is the same as blind, everywhere he is being waited for by failure and misfortune.” (From Soviet poster)