Communist Beauties

[Bill Garvy]

V. M. Nikitina, Inspector, Tashkent Municipal Executive Committee in October 1984.

[CtahhR]

Here is "Cuban Woman" and Education Worker Crecencia Palmira Gomez Garcia c1980. Apparently no-one told her not to smile.

[Bill Garvy]

Galina Zakharova Achkasova-Ionova.

[Bill Garvy]

Ol'ga Ushlor'yevna Yevseyeva in 1986.

[CtahhR]

Another "Cuban Woman" Ester Thaureance Maruel in 1962.

[Bill Garvy]

More beauties. . .

[Al-muell]

Where do the first 2 photographs come from?

The first one is somewhat strange if You look at the uniforms and belts - looks like made after 1956.
The second photograph looks familiar to me and I have a feeling that I may recognize the formation pictured.

[Bill Garvy]

The first and third photographs are reprints, and do appear to have been possibly "staged" or to be of more recent origin. They were obtained from the same vendor, and were recently procured at a very reasonable price from a popular auction site, ahem. The second photograph appears to be an older reprint of a news photograph, judging from the photographic paper used, and was obtained from a different vendor. I regret I am unfamiliar with the formation.

[Al-muell]

I can't find the photograph right now, but I seem to remember seeing this or a very similar photograph like the scond one - it probably shows te soldiers of the "Emilia Plater" Female Battlion of the Polish Army in th East. In the time of unit training,they all got soviet unifroms with just shoulerboards and cap badges changed.

[desantnik]

#106 left photo almost looks from a theatrical production...