Soviet calendar
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The Soviet calendar was a modified Gregorian calendar that was used in Soviet Russia between 1918 and 1940. Several variations were used during that time.
1918 decree adopting the "Western European calendar" (click on image for translation)
Soviet pocket calendar, 1931 Numbered five-day work week, excluding five national holidays
Soviet calendar 12 December 1937 "Sixth day of the six-day week" (just below "12") ————————— "Election day for the Supreme Soviet of the USSR"
Soviet calendar 22 October 1935 "Fourth day of the six-day week" (just below "ОКТЯБРЬ")
Pravda
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Pravda is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the coun
First issue, 5 May 1912 (22 April 1912 OS)
First published Pravda dated 5 May 1912 (22 April 1912 OS)
A delegate at Bolshevik 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party holding a Pravda newspaper in 1934
A soldier reading Pravda during the Second World War, late 1941