USSR meets YouTube in nostalgia project
"Red Square is especially beautiful on this holiday morning!" he says. "On such days every Soviet citizen, whether in Moscow or far from the capital, in any corner of our country, has Red Square in his heart and mind."
This was 1974, but the clip from Soviet television can be found on a new Russian website that seeks to bring Communist nostalgia into the internet age with content ranging from anti-Western propaganda to comedy shows and Soviet sports victories.
The creators of CCCP-TV.ru, whose address resembles the Russian letters for "USSR", believe that millions of Russians will eventually use the site to get their fix of childhood memories.
Longing for Communist times is common in Russia, two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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This was 1974, but the clip from Soviet television can be found on a new Russian website that seeks to bring Communist nostalgia into the internet age with content ranging from anti-Western propaganda to comedy shows and Soviet sports victories.
The creators of CCCP-TV.ru, whose address resembles the Russian letters for "USSR", believe that millions of Russians will eventually use the site to get their fix of childhood memories.
Longing for Communist times is common in Russia, two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall.