Motherland calls

The life of a child in the Soviet Union in one picture.

Soviet bus stops.

Meanwhile, on the Third Proletariat planet (second two sets of links are in English):

• Moscow mayor Luzhkov proposed to confiscate Russian oligarchs’ businesses and action them off “after the crisis is over”. Whatever that means.
• Fidel Castro wrote a MO-dvar-Torah–style vort.
• Obama is doing a Jimmy Carter while being asked to bring Mashiach save the planet.