Awarding the hero of labor, parades of military equipment, May Day demonstrations - these and similar phenomena of Soviet life, not having time to become history, became an important element of the current state style. The authorities did not propose and invented its own language: the aesthetics of the Putin’s third term - the language of the late Soviet Union with its imperial ambitions, demonstration of power, unification and subordination of the state machine. The New Times has collected several characteristic signs of the restoration of Soviet aesthetics
The grand opening of the monument to Stalin in Yakutsk. May 8, 2013
Anastas Mikoyan, Rodion Malinovsky, Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin at a military parade on Red Square. May 9, 1965
Sergey Shoigu, Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev on a military parade on Red Square. May 9, 2013
Parade on Red Square. May 9, 1985
Parade on Red Square. May 9, 2013
Pervomaisky procession in Moscow. May 1, 1983
Pervomaisky procession in Moscow. May 1, 2013
The detention of a participant in the rally of the Democratic Union party on Pushkinskaya Square. October 30, 1989
Detention of the participant of the Strategy 31 action on the Triumphal Square. May 31, 2012
Leonid Brezhnev awards the Finnish and Soviet political figure, writer Otto Kuusinen by the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. October 5, 1961
Russian President Vladimir Putin awards the conductor Valery Gergiev by the title Hero of Labor. May 1, 2013
