I think platonic love between men is too often overlooked and unconsidered these days, more often dismissed for a assumed hidden erotic love instead. Attention between men shouldn’t only ever be viewed sexual. That’s how we get grown adults that can hardly bear to touch each other if it’s not some overly aggressive handshake or other"macho" bs.
That said, these two were definitely fuckin’.
I like the wary look the second figure is giving the PPSH.
Watch where you point that thing.
They were comrades
Cumrags?
Best friends since college I heard …
Sometimes they would both work on the collective’s most remote fields all night long, and we wouldn’t see them until morning, utterly exhausted and soaked with sweat! What good, hard-working Soviet boys they were!
They worked so much together they didn’t even have time to find good, sturdy wives! What a noble sacrifice!
It is a bit ironic you have coffee beans as a background - true Soviet boys dont cultivate coffee, they cultivate potatos and other vegetables!
Did i hear BEANS???
Anyone know what monument this is from? Seems unlikely to be of Soviet origin, yet it looks very much like that style.
The Monument to the Sailors of the Dnieper Flotilla, erected 1979, Kyiv, Ukraine, then-the-Ukrainian SSR
Rather than necessarily intending to be homoerotic, cultural expressions of affection can vary wildly - such as how in some extremely homophobic countries men holding hands or other physical closeness is not seen as a warning sign of homosexual attraction.
Nonetheless, one imagines that it very well could have been the artist or designer being cheeky - especially considering artistic types are known for being disproportionately open-minded on such issues.
It’s the subtle leg pop that does it for me, I have to believe that someone involved said “Yeah, we goin’ a little gay on this, no one’s gonna call us out”
A stirring example of the kinds of proletarian solidarity impossible in a capitalist society, nothing more
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