dispelling the stupid western propaganda about bikinis being banned in the USSR.

  • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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    2 months ago

    Posting pictures of Soviet women in bikinis to r/oldschoolcool and turning the whole subreddit Marxist-Leninist because they're all super horned up for some reason.

    JK they'd actually probably call the pictures fake.

    • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      I once showed my lib sister pictures of my Polish ex's grandpa taking his family on a trip to a lake where they were all swimming and having picnics and shit.

      She's insisted it must be fake because the concept of someone going on a nice lake trip in the USSR was inconceivable.

      • fox [comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        The entire USSR in the liberal mind as it's always pictured in all Western media: one continuous tract of depressing brutalist apartment blocks in the middle of a snowstorm, and also Siberia and bears, and barbed wire everywhere.

        • SSJMarx@lemm.ee
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          2 months ago

          It's like how Afghanistan isn't all rocky mountains and desert - but if you showed this in a movie set there western audiences would lose their minds.

          • fox [comrade/them]
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            2 months ago

            Put a tan filter on it and play some notes on an oud and you'd get most of the way there

  • ElHexo
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    1 month ago

    deleted by creator

    • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      I count at least five topless women in the background?

      TBH, it could be due to social conventions about acceptable clothing. Like if you go to the beach in bikini, it is absolutely normal, but if you go in stockings, garter belt and corset, you'll be seen as weirdo, even if you are de-facto more dressed.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    pictures of russian women before the revolution (lmao)

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    I don't know why but i've never really liked bikinis. I've always preferred a little more covered up, more imagination? Not sure really but I just like it more.

    • Iwishiwasntthisway [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      The string bikini that was popular in the 80s through the 00s usually isn't flattering on most body types or on a body in motion. Even when I had a BMI of like 18 those things would flatten my breasts downward, give me back rolls from the tiny straps that need to be pulled tight to keep the thing on, and for whatever reason never covered my actual vulva, looking like I had two sets of labia majora. Even a standard "bikini" depilation routine isn't sufficient... You would need to remove basically all the hair for none of it to be visible.

      Since I had a kid I wear one pieces with trunks and I don't even have stretch marks or ab separation. I can't even imagine herding a toddler in what I wore 10 years ago. I'm grateful to qualifyfor the "mom" uniform.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        2 months ago

        I can't even imagine herding a toddler in what I wore 10 years ago.

        Especially with how grabby they get agony-mescaline

        I'm grateful to qualifyfor the "mom" uniform.

        It looks better anyway.

  • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    It’s only a bikini if it post-dates the nuclear annihilation of a South Pacific atoll. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling swimsuit.

  • Pentacat [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    “Gradual transition?” Did the Soviet Union collapse because everyone became trans due to lack of semen retention?

    I learned in a thread yesterday that semen retention makes men attractive to women. Bikinis cause fapping, which makes men unattractive to women, which makes men go trans and it also makes women go trans because it’s all held together by semen.

    • Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 months ago

      it’s all held together by semen.

      Has anyone tested whether it can improve the strength of concrete?