Posted on 25 July 2010 by admin
With Che Guevara staring out from trendy t-shirts across the globe and hammer and sickles gracing anything from cigarette cases to badges, how did communism become cool? And should we be celebrating what was for many a brutal and dehumanising system and existance?
Glenn Beck from Fox News investigates…
How Did Communism Become Cool?
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Posted on 30 May 2010 by admin
So it’s not just bloc life interested in all things socialist and communist… introducing Real USSR, a collaborative blog publishing all sorts of interesting stories about the former Soviet Union.
From great features on anything from Soviet fashion design to cars, and fascinating oral histories, Real USSR covers a wide range of topics. Plus, many of the articles relate this important period of history to modern life, providing a really user-friendly way to access information about a way of living that is fast being forgotten. Check out the pretty hard-core quiz to – How Well Do You Know the USSR? - but maybe read a few articles first.
bloc life is pleased to have permission to reproduce some of Real USSR’s stories for our archives, and we hope they inspire other people to contribute too, to both us and Real USSR.
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Posted on 03 May 2010 by admin
Lunokhod 1, a 1970s era lunar probe sent to the moon by Soviet scientists has been found by NASA some 40 years after falling silent. The first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another celestial body, Lunokhod means moon walker in Russian, and the probe managed to send back photographs and soil sample data before contact was lost after just 322 Earth days of operations.
It first landed on the Sea of Rains, a relatively smooth surface formed by lava which flooded a giant crater created when a very large object hit the Moon long ago.
The NASA team sent pulses of laser light toward the newly found rover and found its retroreflector in excellent condition. This can give information about the moon’s core and gravity field, as well as lunar dust.
The Soviet Space Program continued for more than 60 years from the 1930s to when the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, and was responsible for a lot of significant space achievements, as well as some failures and thwarted projects.
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Posted on 03 February 2010 by admin
Help develop an open access 
online archive of lives under Communism and Socialism, for better, for worse.
bloc life believes in educating through sharing experiences and memories, and aims to put a face to the politics for generations and years to come.
Visit our bloc life archive page to find out more!
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