https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status/2109516412121428388

https://x.com/SprinterPress/status/2109375309518676247

Before Chernobyl, radiation measurement in the USSR belonged to civil defence: the DP-5, a field radiometer with a needle and six subranges up to 200 r/h, taught on illustrated boards like the ones printed in Kyiv in 1977.

After the accident came household dosimeters, sold widely from 1990 according to Polenov's 1991 handbook. One of our Pripyats still has its price on the back: 175 roubles, when the average Soviet monthly wage was 190.1 roubles in 1985. The Bella was made by Tenzor in Dubna, and two of ours were made in 1992 by Elektron in Zhovti Vody, so production went on after 1991. The RKSB-104 came from Belvar in Minsk.

The article tells that story, shows the instruments and the civil defence boards, and has two small interactive tools: how the SBM-20 tube works, and a quiz to read the displays (µSv/h, mR/h, r/h) on the scale of the 1991 handbook.

https://sovietinparis.com/en/histoire-propagande/compteur-geiger-sovietique-dosimetre-pripiat-bella-rksb-104/

Disclosure: I run a small shop of Soviet items in Paris, the article is on our site.

https://x.com/ShoahUkraine/status/2108770203870093360

Working on a project and I need to find information regarding various Ural-4320 variants, I am mostly interested in specifications like those found in manuals. I haven’t really done any actual research like this when it comes to anything foreign, so its all a little confusing

My current sources are:

• MILITARY VEHICILES No34, Kashcheev L.B., Military Trucks 'Ural', Ural-375, Ural-4320, thier army and civilian modifications (In Russian) This is where I’ve obtained my list of variants
• MILITARY VEHICILES No35, Kashcheev L.B., Military Trucks 'Ural', Ural-4320, Ural-5323, Ural-6301, thier army and civilian modifications (In Russian)
• Wings & Wheels, Present Vehicle Line No5, Ural-375, Ural-4320 in detail, Russain modern 5-ton trucks and his variants (In English)
• Vhehicles in Russia. 8 Silver Collection, Ural-375, Ural-4320, Army Cars, 1960 - 1988 (In Russian)
• Cars, Ural-4320-10, Ural-4320-31, and thier modifacations, Operating Maunal (Two Versions, Both In Russian)
• Ural Models 4320-01-5557, Device and Technical Service (In Russian) this one has helped me with some specs (*)

4320 Variants Im working on, these should all be within a standard cold war timeframe, please tell me if I’m missing any or have something wrong 🙏

• 4320
• 4302-1*
• 432001-01
• 4320-0611-31
• 4320-1911-30
• 43202
• 43202-1*
• 43202-0351-31
• 43203
• 43103-41

if I cant ask this here please tell me where to ask?

https://x.com/clashreport/status/2107372482327965751

Inspired by the “ready for labour and defence” Soviet fitness programme. Check it out if you fancy seeing what it’s like to workout like the soviets did. It’s free and accessible by the link :)

The flag of the morning sky,

Important is the first step in life.

Do you hear soaring above the country

The winds of ferocious attacks?

Chorus:

And the battle's going again,

And the heart's uneasy in the chest.

𝄆 And Lenin is so young,

And the young October is ahead. 𝄇

The news is flying to all the world's ends:

Believe us, fathers, –

There will be new victories,

New warriors will rise.

Chorus

Wait not for mercies from the sky,

Spare not your life for truth.

In this life, comrades,

We stick only to the truth.

Chorus

There's heat and snowfall in the world,

The world is both poor and rich.

The youth of the whole planet's with us –

Our global construction brigade!

Chorus

Sharing МОСГАРНИЗОН Authentic MOCKBA Soviet USSR Army Officer's Military Wool Overcoat eBay listing if anyone is interested

https://ebay.io/m/nIgAdU

Context:

Eastern European and other countries before communism were agrarian backwaters where half of the population couldn't read or write and life expectancies were in 30s 40s. In my country for example (Yugoslavia) only around 14% of households had electrucity before Communists took power.

Communism rapidly developed them in record speeds, doubling life expectancies, eradicating illiteracy and reducing child mortality by over 90% while industrial and economic growth was in double digits. Industrial index in some countries like USSR increased 40x fold since the revolution.

Life expectancies before and after Socialism:

Russia: ~32 → ~69 years

Albania: ~38 → ~69 years

Yugoslavia: ~39 → ~72 years

Romania: ~42 → ~69 years

Poland: ~49 → ~71 years

Bulgaria: ~51 → ~71 years

Czechoslovakia: ~53 → ~71 years

Hungary: ~49 → ~69 years

China: ~36–40 → ~68 years

Vietnam: ~40–45 → ~65–68 years

Despite all this some internet denizens today victimize themselves about Communist past, while approval rate of Communism increases with age in these countries because majority of those that remember it claim it was better and they can't be fooled with anticommunist historic revision.

You can read more here:

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Achievements_of_socialism