Visiting a Soviet family: a report by an American photojournalist

These pictures were taken in the mid-1950s by Edward Clark for LIFE magazine.

A report on the life of a working family Life Of A Worker And His Family. With love, however… Of course, everything is a little embellished, but the main thing is that there is no Photoshop — then photography was a document of the era. Then all this was interesting to Americans, and now it is interesting to us.

Source: LiveJournal/visualhistory

Guests should be treated so that everyone remembers!

A decent working family, but obviously Dad was the boss.

They lived with their son and dog. They apparently had two rooms—a bedroom and a dining room. Happy people!

Their idiot studied, like everyone else, at school. This is a singing lesson — then musical literacy was taught to everyone.

And there was a paradise in the biology room! On the wall is not Engels, and Darwin.

That day, fresh milk for my son and dried mushrooms for soup were bought at the market. The milk is probably a little diluted, but still alive, from under the cow.

There is no certainty that they are white, but they look and smell good.

The soup that day, it seems, went out to glory, look how they eat it.

The guests arrived in a frozen tram. It seems to me that this is the Avenue of Peace.

The guests drank and had a snack…

...and they started singing songs.

And then the table was pushed back, and the dancing began.

After the guests leave, it is necessary to boil the milk and give the son warm so that he sleeps well. My son was sleeping on a cot. I did everything myself: laid out and laid out.

Mom could help hold the edge of the bed to get the underwear.