I got away with taking this picture outside Moscow in the early 80's while on a bicycle trip:
I got away with taking this picture outside Moscow in the early 80's while on a bicycle trip:
I forget: were big ol’ whitewalls like that still cool in the 1980s? They look retro to at least the 1950s... to me anyway....
Oh wow! Those Soviet era vehicles with the absurd whitewall tires.
I was deployed to Uzbekistan in 2003-04. Took a road trip outside the compound at Karshi-Khanabad and photographed a huge radar site with those whitewall tire GAZ-35 trucks all around. Made the mistake of having the film developed locally. The S%^# got censored.....! Along with anything else the authorities thought to be demeaning to Uzbekistan.
But my pix of the massive Registan Mosque in Samarkand came out just fine.....
That’s a WWII weapon I believe. “Stalin’s Organ”. No...stop that...think “music”.