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 Posted: Sun, 29th Jan 2017 15:25 Post subject: USSR 1952-1954 color photos (Manhoff archive) |
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| Quote: | Army Major Martin Manhoff served in the US embassy in Moscow from February 1952 until June 1954, when he was expelled from the USSR on charges of espionage. During his two years in the Soviet Union, Manhoff traveled widely and recorded much of what he saw on both color slides and color 16mm film. All of this material ended up in a closet in his home in Washington State where it lay unseen for over half a century.
After his wife's death, I was asked to visit the Manhoff home this past summer and see whether Martin had left behind anything of value. I was amazed at what I discovered. For the past several months I have been digitizing and organizing the photographs and films. Among the gems is approximately 15 minutes of color movie footage of Stalin's funeral taken from an upstairs window of the old US embassy in the Hotel National. There are thousand of color photographs taken on the streets of Moscow, Leningrad, Murmansk, Yalta, and at points along the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
I am now working on finding the best way to make this unique visual archive available to the public and to find a permanent home for the entire Manhoff archive.
Here are a few photographs to give you a small taste. I hope you like them. Please share and let me know if you have any comments or suggestions for me.
You can contact me at info@douglassmith.info
Thank you. |
=== EDIT-2017-03-21:
Main site --> https://www.rferl.org/a/the-manhoff-archive/28359558.html
Part 1 --> https://www.rferl.org/a/manhoff-archive-part-one-stalins-funeral/28359561.html
Part 2 --> https://www.rferl.org/a/manhoff-archive-part-two-city-life/28378660.html
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More photos @ https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10155847922929625&id=629794624
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| Posted: Sun, 29th Jan 2017 15:49 Post subject: |
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Maybe he really was a spy 
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| Posted: Sun, 29th Jan 2017 16:27 Post subject: |
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Great photos.
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| Posted: Sun, 29th Jan 2017 16:29 Post subject: |
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Rodina! 
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| Posted: Sun, 29th Jan 2017 18:37 Post subject: |
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Great stuff indeed, thanks for posting. One can tell why many folks regret the collapse of the Soviet Union 
Make Russia great again 
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| Posted: Mon, 30th Jan 2017 13:10 Post subject: |
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Am I supposed to believe these are real? This is clearly western propaganda. You can tell especially from the last pic in the OP. All of these people are western spies... because they are all sitting on their asses instead of squatting.
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| Posted: Tue, 21st Mar 2017 13:24 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 21st Mar 2017 16:03 Post subject: |
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That is footage from eras we like to forget.
Nevertheless awesome pictures.
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| Posted: Tue, 21st Mar 2017 16:18 Post subject: |
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Why forget? Ignoring history leads to repetition. I'd prefer people to educate themselves and avoid a similar outcome in the future.
And to be honest, i am glad that someone actually took its time to document via photography the time period (spy or not spy, those photos are masterfully taken). Would love to see more, not only from the former soviet states, but from the whole eastern part of Europe. It would be interesting to compare how life was in East and West Europe, how it was in the Central America, South America, Africa, Asia or Australia.
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looked better than it does now honestly (well not really)
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