Soviet History Buffs Pillows

Poljot watch by Yuri Gagarin

Czarcasm

"How is it in Russia?"

'Hey, mac, is this your idea of glasnost?'

Alexei Kosygin

'No. No. Don't bomb them now. Wait until morning, when the birds are singing and the air is alive with a sense of possibility.'

"Hold on, I'll make that coffee to go!"

Assasination Attempt on Tsar Alexander II

"I am Peter the Great and I want Alaska back."

"Boun giorno, Gorby!" "Buon giorno, Bush!"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Putin's New History

Leo Tolstoy tries the sports market

"Mr Gorbachev, open this gate!"

Anton Chekhov

Gorbachev Adds An Unscheduled Stop To His Itinerary"I'm sorry, sir, but we do not have your new book in stock, and I don't know when we'll get it."

"They should open the files - Lenin never said all those crazy things attributed to him."

Rasputin - You don't have to be a mad monk to work here but it helps

Mohammed Loses a Buddy, Gets PTSD

Ivan the Terrible with Names

Leonid Brezhnev

Power fart!

'Cheer up, son. Life is just a bowl of hand grenades!'

Hammer and Sickle

Lenin closet

Aleksei Kosygin

Monday morning, and Stalin could feel a new purge coming on...

I.A. Efremov

"Still killing the anonymous, but with greater anonymity."

Siberia: warning may contain salt

Ivan the Terrible-with-names

Russian policy in Bulgaria, 1886

"He used to be as hopeful as Mikhail Gorbachev."

It Wasn't Personal

Perestroika