100 characters of the Stalin era. Gromov A.B.

Now there are not many people who at least in their youth have found the Stalin era and remember what it really was, and not only in the slogans proclaimed then, but in the real life of ordinary people.

This book tells about the main symbols of the Stalin era-the legendary exhibition of the achievements of the national economy, the Mausoleum of Lenin and the window of Stalin, about the river channels named after Moscow and the Volga-Don, the subway and communal apartments. No less important attributes of the first Soviet fiftieth anniversary were the perfume “Red Moscow”, the Order of “Victory” and the icon “Voroshilovsky shooter”, the order “not a step back” and the novel “Two Captains”, the T-34 tank and the PPSh machine gun.

have passed decades, but many symbols of the distant past are still present in our lives. How did the signs of the Stalin era become part of modern everyday life and have not lost their symbolic significance? Why are they the same road to pensioners and adolescents? Look for answers to these questions on the pages of the book.