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Russian Rocket Bootswatch!
This is a video of a person demonstrating the use of the Russian made "power boots", also known as "Seven League Boots", and the "Russian Rocket Boots". Does it actually look like he's getting anywhere faster with those?!
More ( Clothing )Propaganda Design & Aesthetics: Soviet Retro Posterswatch!
One of the great aesthetic legacies of the Soviet Union is the great wealth of magnificent propaganda posters it left behind. In this post, I present some personal favorites.
More ( Media )Drink like a Dictator - AK-47 Vodka
vodkakalashnikov.com — VRQ International is proud to present from the creator of the legendary AK-47 Rifle Mikhail T. Kalashnikov a must-have for collectors and connoisseurs of the fine spirits. It looks like the legendary AK-47 Rifle, but it holds several rounds of the finest Original Russian vodka.More ( Guns )
Russian president holding alien gun devicewatch!
Now theres a crazy looking gun. Russia Strong!
More ( Guns )LCD Watches From the USSR
retrothing.com — Trustworthy dates are hard to come by, but it seems the first digital watch manufactured in the Soviet Union -- the Elektronika B6-02 -- featured a crude 4-digit LCD display rather than an LED module, and was apparently produced for several years starting in 1974. The starting production date is somewhat suspicious, since LCD timepieces only started to appear as ...More ( Watches )
Russian sniper handbookwatch!
Scanned images from a Russian sniper handbook.
More ( Guns )Beggs Develops Radical Rigs in West Texas Tunnel
accurateshooter.wordpress.com — Beggs has modded a couple of Russian rifles to great accuracy with testing inside a 100 yrd indoor range. Both rifles share a skeleton design which uses the Stiller Cobra or Python action as a central load-bearing member. Remarkably, there is no conventional fore-arm at all. Gene has bolted, directly to the barrel, a 3-wide bag-riding aluminum sled.More ( Guns )
Russia's Spy Weapons Catalogue
blog.wired.com —
All sorts of retailers will promise to sell you James Bond-style gadgetry. But Russia's lurch into aristo-capitalism means that the weapons from 007's old adversaries -- which once would have been kept strictly secret -- are now advertised in glossy catalogs like the one on Rosboronexport's web site.
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