Happy childhood: 35 atmospheric photographs of Soviet children

Nostalgia for childhood: adults against the background of painted children's fantasies in photographs by Dominik Smialowski

With each passing day we become more experienced, educated, and at the same time farther from childhood, when everything seemed big and sincere, or, at least, there were hopes for a brighter future. Dominik Smialowski recreated childhood fantasies in his photographs, in which real people appear against the background of such familiar situations from childhood that the heart aches

Wooden retro. Ecological Happy Toys for Happy Children

The happy time of a carefree childhood is when everything around seems amazing and unusual, multi-colored glass is equated with jewelry, and any stick of a fancy shape can become a toy. Remembering their happy childhood, about playing Indians who pranced on twig horses, about homemade sailboats carved from a piece of bark, Dutch designers Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe have developed a funny collection of wooden toys

Soviet Ukraine: atmospheric photographs from the 1980s about the life of Soviet people

Soviet Ukraine was one of 15 republics that were part of the Soviet Union. “In the Radianskim Union, Happiness knew Mizh the Rivny Rivna, Mizh the Vilny Vilna,” - these words from the Ukrainian SSR anthem were very truthful. It was at the time of the USSR that the republic flourished - the borders expanded, for the first time in the history of Ukraine, collegiality was held, industrialization took place, and during which the most significant industrial enterprises for the republic from the entire USSR were built. In this review, photos from Ukraine

Novocherkassk: The Story of the Shot City, to which Soviet Children Own a Happy Childhood

56 years since the Novocherkassk tragedy. Not a round date, but few people paid attention even to the anniversary that happened last year, and even more so, few tried to comprehend the meaning of those events - it’s painfully scary. Already after Stalin's death, when, it would seem, the entire "bloody" part of Soviet history was left behind, the "workers" state fired at the workers. How and why this happened and what impact the events in Novocherkassk had on the fate of all those born in the USSR - read our material

Idle childhood: 15 rare photographs of American children from 1850-1930

All of these photographs were taken between 1850 and 1930. Your heart squeezes when you look at these pictures and understand that these guys did not have childhood, only hard adult work