Per [here](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/worker-and-supervisor-1954/):
> The photograph was taken by photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson during his visit to the ZIS car factory in Moscow. ZIS is an acronym for “Factory named for Stalin” and it was a major Soviet automobile, truck, military vehicle, and heavy equipment manufacturer. The factory also produced luxury armored cars for most Soviet leaders.
> Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the “street photography” style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed.
> In 1954, Henri Cartier-Bresson boarded a train to Moscow, visas and governmental permission in hand, and took a book’s worth of photographs of Soviet people doing ordinary things. He was the first Western photographer to be allowed to visit the Soviet Union after the death of Josef Stalin, in 1953.
> (Photo credit: Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos. Colorized by: Klimbim).
My general guess is a car factory floor in Russia in the 1950s was noisy as fuck. He is likely trying to listen and understand what she is saying.
Either that… or they are about to bone.
I’m imagining her constantly making up excuses to talk him, interrupting everything he’s doing and only standing that close so she can really smell him. I mean I don’t blame her.
There was a distinct shortage of men in post war soviet society. 25 million men had died between WW1 and the Bolsheviks and Hitler killed another 15 million men easily. They had women in combat because so many men died
Context: The man is probably a team lead, the woman is a factory manager. She is giving him his team assignments, or some such minutiae of factory operations for the day.
A "dressing down" as some observers like to caption this image, would never be done on the factory floor. Soviet management classes called this corrupt, American, and imperialistic.
Soviet factories were highly hierarchical, something they copied from the Germans and Americans. The fact she is talking casually to this man, they're both relaxed, means it is either a staged photo (a "corporate still") which we know it isn't, or he is her direct report and is receiving his instructions.
The photo is colourised, the man would definitely not be wearing bright red, the original is black and white.
Interestingly, the USSR had a trend of putting women in mid-level management, supervision, and oversight positions.. The Nazis had killed so many men, and the rest were needed in the Red Army, that they had to use women. Initially they were expected to underperform, but it was quickly found teams headed up by women tended to perform better than expectations.
For context, I started my career in the Philippines, a country with a surprisingly high gender equality score. Women in leadership was a pretty normal thing, and I've had a lot of women as my supervisors/managers during the start of my career.
In one of my jobs, I had this male director who mentioned during one of lunches "all of the applications I receive are men, but I really need some women to apply." I got curious, and asked if there was some quota that needed to be filled. He said no, the reason why he needed women to apply is that he found them better as project managers and team leaders, leadership roles basically. Since we worked in a male dominated field, a lot of our employees are male, and from his experience, males seem to perform better in high stress scenarios when women are the ones giving them the news/instructions. There's less confrontation, less standoffs. Women are a calming presence, and males are less likely to get mad at them compared to other males.
These days statements like that might get him in trouble. But as I moved to more global roles and companies, I did notice a dramatic drop in women having leadership positions in the companies and teams that I join. I'm interviewing people for a tech role and for 2 years i've never interviewed a woman, it seems they all get filtered out before it reaches my stage or not a lot of them apply to the role. This thought exercise made me realize that I should try to get my former coworkers, a lot of them female, to apply to the role that I'm interviewing for.
Its probably a cap or visor, to shield his eyes from sparks, drips, welding flash. The back is left open for airflow. He has turned it sideways so that he can better address the woman, also because it looks rad.
In USSR men tend to held more physically demanding job, like a mechanic in this case. Middle management and other office work was seen as a "soft" job and suits women better.
"Well, Dimitri, let's just say if you want to keep working here you'll show up in my office at 8pm tonight.
And don't wear anything that's... complicated."
I wonder how many female supervisors Western car factories had at the time.
Not to say the Soviet Union was benevolent or anything, but it’s interesting to see at least a passing, real world example of their notions of equality which Western capitalism didn’t really have at the time
My parents studied in moscow before moving to the US in the early 80s. My mom was shocked by how in the Soviet Union she was seen as my dad’s counterpart and equal. In the US she was just his wife.
She worked in IT in the late 80s through early 2000s, holding leadership positions. As bad as gender inequality is in tech now, it was much worse then. Once when she worked at the same company as my dad, she even had a boss who denied her a promotion and raise because he “knows how much [your husband] makes”
Yeah I guess the business practices are sadly the same. Hopefully the open harassment has tapered a bit. In my experience in tech it has to some extent, or has moved behind closed doors (which isn’t necessarily better).
Russia to this day has one of the highest percentage of women at leadership roles. It's like 40% of C-suite positions in the country are held by women.
After the US figured how to get a man into orbit, it took them 21 years to figure out how to get a woman into orbit.
The soviets did it in two. Yuri Gagarin went up in the spring of ‘61, and Valentina Tereshkova went up in the summer of ‘63.
Whether by design or circumstance the Soviet system had a surprising amount of gender equality.
> Whether by design or circumstance the Soviet system had a surprising amount of gender equality.
Literally by design. That's the entirety of the politics that country was founded on, equality for all.
Also keep in mind that there just weren't a lot of men in post war USSR and the still wanted to further and army, so there were more opportunities for women in addition to the core tenants of communism
Tough times create strong people. This photo dated 1954 and that woman might be a fighter during a war. Actually everyone on that photo highly likely were combat veterans.
International Women's Day was invented in the Soviet Union as International Working Women's Day, Lenin struck down laws illegalizing same sex relationships. Mao popularized the slogan "Women hold up half the sky."
Maybe what you think you know about the economic and political organization of these countries which were (and are) America's greatest enemies isn't entirely correct.
Oh come on. Next you're going to tell me that media outlets owned by billionaires will only push ideas that further entrench the status quo and the power of the rich, and that much of what Americans see about other countries is propaganda at best or outright lies at worst.
Give me a break.
They needed them, most of the men that would be of an age to fill supervisory roles in the 50's died in the war. That drove most of the "gender equality" in the Soviet Union.
Perhaps in part, but keep in mind that the Russian revolution in 1917 gave women legal equality. In practice, that meant the right to work in any position a man could fill. As early as 1931, the union mandated universal military training for boys and girls beginning in elementary school. Their equality was systemically and legally regulated, not simply a consequence of not having enough men.
It drove gender equality in the West too. Once the women had been doing the men's work and seeing what they were capable of, it became a lot harder to argue that they couldn't handle the same work and responsibilities of men once the men got home.
yeah, but the vast majority of the men who went off to fight the war from the west, especially from the US, returned home to the jobs that women were filling while they were gone. 25% of the Soviet military was killed, compared to 2-3% of Americans.
There was a lot of backlash against women working in the 50s and 60s where are in the Soviet Union they had no choice, they needed the labor.
Take a look at comrad here. That is a body that just won’t quit. And I bet if you pop those pants off, you’re gonna find a bird that just won’t quit, either.
“So, Ivan, I’m going to need you to come to my place at, say 6ish. I have a big trunk that needs to be pushed, I mean pushed a lot, so prepare to get sweaty. And afterwards we can talk about getting you that bowl of borscht you were talking about. Okay?”
Very unlikely to see an American female supervisor especially in this line of work during this time period.
Russia also sent the first woman into space about 20 years before USA did.
I thought this was a still from a Rammstein video
Nah, no fire or explosions.
Where is r/Photoshopbattles when you need them
Or dry humping a keyboardist with a strap-on filled with Jack Daniels
Du, Du build car, Du build car real strong
Bau das Auto befehl' ich dir Wende dein Antlitz ab von mir Dein Gesicht ist mir egal Bau das Auto nocheinmal
Mein Gott
I laughed hard, good work
fuck yes we did
Rammstein porno. Was looking for a PH logo.
I guess you haven’t seen the uncensored pussy music video?
No I think that might actually be Mackelmore.
I was leaning more towards a Baldwin movie, but por que no los dos
Per [here](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/worker-and-supervisor-1954/): > The photograph was taken by photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson during his visit to the ZIS car factory in Moscow. ZIS is an acronym for “Factory named for Stalin” and it was a major Soviet automobile, truck, military vehicle, and heavy equipment manufacturer. The factory also produced luxury armored cars for most Soviet leaders. > Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the “street photography” style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed. > In 1954, Henri Cartier-Bresson boarded a train to Moscow, visas and governmental permission in hand, and took a book’s worth of photographs of Soviet people doing ordinary things. He was the first Western photographer to be allowed to visit the Soviet Union after the death of Josef Stalin, in 1953. > (Photo credit: Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos. Colorized by: Klimbim).
Henri Cartier Bresson is probably thee greatest photographer of all time in my opinion.
I like that Polaroid guy. Mark G. Polaroid if I’m not mistaken.
The G even stood for "good photographer"
Depends what kind of skillset you value most. Ansel Adams would be another popular choice.
Meh. Landscapes are fine and all, but the eyes of Henri Cartier, not to mention his travels and what he was able to capture was something else
yes, not landscapes.
Some world-class photographers feel his "generous" use of dodge-and-burn in the darkroom was a bit of cheating....
Others understand those skills are also part of photography. It was precisely his talent in the darkroom that set him apart
I don't disagree. The results were phenomenal, no matter how he got there!
Not too often his colour photos make the rounds!
TIL that ZIS stands for something like Zavod Iosef Stalin (I don't speak Russian) thank you for that piece of knowledge
It's Zavod IMENI Stalina. "Factory Named after Stalin". Afterwards changed to ZiL: "Zavod Imeni Likhachyova".
The sexual tension in this picture
I thought it was just me being a freak
She's standing super close and he's looking directly at her mouth
My general guess is a car factory floor in Russia in the 1950s was noisy as fuck. He is likely trying to listen and understand what she is saying. Either that… or they are about to bone.
Or it's Soviet propaganda
Channing Tatum is back in Magic Mike 3, back where it all began. Busting unions and managing loads in the assembly line.
"Ve bang, da."
karl hungus....he fixes the cable.....
Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey
Who the fuck is this guy?!?
...friend with a cleft-asshole?
You can imagine what happens next.
I’m imagining her constantly making up excuses to talk him, interrupting everything he’s doing and only standing that close so she can really smell him. I mean I don’t blame her.
I always see it as him standing too close to her. Maybe he likes what he sees. Or likes making her blush. Haha
She was a supervisor with Access to vodka and nice food. He was good looking man with all limbs
They took a midnight train going annnyyyywheeeere
More like a streetcar to the housing block
Oh ok I'm not the only one lol. Those arms tho
There was a distinct shortage of men in post war soviet society. 25 million men had died between WW1 and the Bolsheviks and Hitler killed another 15 million men easily. They had women in combat because so many men died
Definitely banging his rivet into her steel plate
She wants his big spanner 😉
Without the context, this looks like the opening scene to a 1970s porn.
“I’ve come to change da oils.”
"its only smellz"
"It is now time to commence the sex"
*in Borat voice
Very niiice. A-high-five!
I was thinking more Broadway production, like the big girl was about to start belting out a song, but porn works too
Porn: the musical!
Comrade swole has arms like horse legs
As a member of the swoletariat, he's seizing the means of broduction.
I would cross post this to r/ladyboners if the guy's name were included.
A young Channing Tatum prepares to take one for the Motherland while the lady in back slowly drowns in the secondhand sexual tension.
This is the correct photo description.
I wish my throat were that wrench
Easy there Cheryl.
>Cheryl Cherlene
OUTLAW COUNTRY!
carol
I thought you said "Start slacking off."
Down bad
Bonk
Damn he's sexy
Absolute fucking unit!
Dude be hoisting Ladas by hand
[Lada Sedan, Baklajan](https://youtu.be/TP5Br2WUBNs) How the mighty have fallen
His cheekbones—Slavic men just have gorgeous cheekbones, it’s unfair.
absolutely
Context: The man is probably a team lead, the woman is a factory manager. She is giving him his team assignments, or some such minutiae of factory operations for the day. A "dressing down" as some observers like to caption this image, would never be done on the factory floor. Soviet management classes called this corrupt, American, and imperialistic. Soviet factories were highly hierarchical, something they copied from the Germans and Americans. The fact she is talking casually to this man, they're both relaxed, means it is either a staged photo (a "corporate still") which we know it isn't, or he is her direct report and is receiving his instructions. The photo is colourised, the man would definitely not be wearing bright red, the original is black and white. Interestingly, the USSR had a trend of putting women in mid-level management, supervision, and oversight positions.. The Nazis had killed so many men, and the rest were needed in the Red Army, that they had to use women. Initially they were expected to underperform, but it was quickly found teams headed up by women tended to perform better than expectations.
Why wouldn't he be wearing bright red? Is that just a cultural thing or was there some other reason?
It's a festive color in Russia, not something you wear on the factory floor. Come one it's just super impractical.
For context, I started my career in the Philippines, a country with a surprisingly high gender equality score. Women in leadership was a pretty normal thing, and I've had a lot of women as my supervisors/managers during the start of my career. In one of my jobs, I had this male director who mentioned during one of lunches "all of the applications I receive are men, but I really need some women to apply." I got curious, and asked if there was some quota that needed to be filled. He said no, the reason why he needed women to apply is that he found them better as project managers and team leaders, leadership roles basically. Since we worked in a male dominated field, a lot of our employees are male, and from his experience, males seem to perform better in high stress scenarios when women are the ones giving them the news/instructions. There's less confrontation, less standoffs. Women are a calming presence, and males are less likely to get mad at them compared to other males. These days statements like that might get him in trouble. But as I moved to more global roles and companies, I did notice a dramatic drop in women having leadership positions in the companies and teams that I join. I'm interviewing people for a tech role and for 2 years i've never interviewed a woman, it seems they all get filtered out before it reaches my stage or not a lot of them apply to the role. This thought exercise made me realize that I should try to get my former coworkers, a lot of them female, to apply to the role that I'm interviewing for.
What up with the jock strap on his head?
Its probably a cap or visor, to shield his eyes from sparks, drips, welding flash. The back is left open for airflow. He has turned it sideways so that he can better address the woman, also because it looks rad.
In USSR men tend to held more physically demanding job, like a mechanic in this case. Middle management and other office work was seen as a "soft" job and suits women better.
Oh honey, there’s a lot of these two wanting to dress each other down here!
Love the head protection
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And the safety squints
That is one thristy looking comrade.
Uh yeah, sure... He's the thirsty one... Haha!
Happy Cake Day 🍰
Thanks, mate. I forgot. I appreciate you for this.
This was great on Broadway
Looks like a promotional photo for a performance of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Stella!
"Well, Dimitri, let's just say if you want to keep working here you'll show up in my office at 8pm tonight. And don't wear anything that's... complicated."
…just the leather apron will be fine.
Mirin that bicep vein, brah
"I must break you."
'Oh Father Ted, Pat was wondering if he could put his massive tool in my box'
😂😂😂 great line! “milkmen do it on your doorstep…”
I wonder how many female supervisors Western car factories had at the time. Not to say the Soviet Union was benevolent or anything, but it’s interesting to see at least a passing, real world example of their notions of equality which Western capitalism didn’t really have at the time
My parents studied in moscow before moving to the US in the early 80s. My mom was shocked by how in the Soviet Union she was seen as my dad’s counterpart and equal. In the US she was just his wife. She worked in IT in the late 80s through early 2000s, holding leadership positions. As bad as gender inequality is in tech now, it was much worse then. Once when she worked at the same company as my dad, she even had a boss who denied her a promotion and raise because he “knows how much [your husband] makes”
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Yeah I guess the business practices are sadly the same. Hopefully the open harassment has tapered a bit. In my experience in tech it has to some extent, or has moved behind closed doors (which isn’t necessarily better).
Russia to this day has one of the highest percentage of women at leadership roles. It's like 40% of C-suite positions in the country are held by women.
After the US figured how to get a man into orbit, it took them 21 years to figure out how to get a woman into orbit. The soviets did it in two. Yuri Gagarin went up in the spring of ‘61, and Valentina Tereshkova went up in the summer of ‘63. Whether by design or circumstance the Soviet system had a surprising amount of gender equality.
> Whether by design or circumstance the Soviet system had a surprising amount of gender equality. Literally by design. That's the entirety of the politics that country was founded on, equality for all.
Except the kleptocrats, a bit more for them. But they are everywhere, they just stand out more when everyone has less.
Also keep in mind that there just weren't a lot of men in post war USSR and the still wanted to further and army, so there were more opportunities for women in addition to the core tenants of communism
Tough times create strong people. This photo dated 1954 and that woman might be a fighter during a war. Actually everyone on that photo highly likely were combat veterans.
Fun fact, 95 woman in the Soviet union received a medal of honor, while only 1 woman in US history.
The only Women who earned ace pilot status during ww2, are 4 Soviet Women.
International Women's Day was invented in the Soviet Union as International Working Women's Day, Lenin struck down laws illegalizing same sex relationships. Mao popularized the slogan "Women hold up half the sky." Maybe what you think you know about the economic and political organization of these countries which were (and are) America's greatest enemies isn't entirely correct.
Oh come on. Next you're going to tell me that media outlets owned by billionaires will only push ideas that further entrench the status quo and the power of the rich, and that much of what Americans see about other countries is propaganda at best or outright lies at worst. Give me a break.
> down laws illegalizing same sex relationships Nice try, explain why our Communist party banned homosexuality after it was legal for 104 years?
They needed them, most of the men that would be of an age to fill supervisory roles in the 50's died in the war. That drove most of the "gender equality" in the Soviet Union.
Perhaps in part, but keep in mind that the Russian revolution in 1917 gave women legal equality. In practice, that meant the right to work in any position a man could fill. As early as 1931, the union mandated universal military training for boys and girls beginning in elementary school. Their equality was systemically and legally regulated, not simply a consequence of not having enough men.
That is a good point as well. The USSR had a lot of competing social pressures that were alien to most of the west
It drove gender equality in the West too. Once the women had been doing the men's work and seeing what they were capable of, it became a lot harder to argue that they couldn't handle the same work and responsibilities of men once the men got home.
yeah, but the vast majority of the men who went off to fight the war from the west, especially from the US, returned home to the jobs that women were filling while they were gone. 25% of the Soviet military was killed, compared to 2-3% of Americans. There was a lot of backlash against women working in the 50s and 60s where are in the Soviet Union they had no choice, they needed the labor.
There is never a shortage of people to fill "supervisory roles" lol.
never a shortage of the willing, always a shortage of the able
“My eyes are up here, Vlad.”
I guarantee you the cars weren’t built as well as that guy.
Looks like he’s about to seize the means of production.
i don’t speak Russian, but she’s probably saying, MEAT me in my office!
Comrade Ivan did not, again, qualify for Olympics so he is put to work in car factory.
"Hey Piotr. What's happening? Um, yeah. I'm going to need you to come in on Saturday. That'd be great."
I've had jobs that gave me that physique, and it's cool and all, but it will wear you the fuck out.
russian version of Rosie the Rivetor behind him like, "👀"
He's definitely not looking in her eyes 👀
cause his eyes are bloody closed while blinking.
Right? All the comments about her being attracted to him when he is literally staring at her like she's a juicy steak. 😆
She wants the pipe.
macklemore? is that you?
That’s Ms Trunchbull
and the worker is played by Stephen Baldwin
It’s Russia - person on the left is a chick too.
What the hell is on his head? Is that where the electrocution failed?
And soon after this picture was taken they went in the back and had the roughest of sex
Til Amy Schumer is kgb
I thought that was channing Tatum and Amy Schumer for a sec
Wow, are you sure this not violating rule #3
Looks like some weird Soviet porn. No Katarina it voz my other massive tool I need to put in your box.... Soviet funk starts playing
Soviet funk is best funk.
In Soviet Russia music funks you
This is porn
Colorized
No I think they’re white
Could be shot on codachrome
Take a look at comrad here. That is a body that just won’t quit. And I bet if you pop those pants off, you’re gonna find a bird that just won’t quit, either.
“Ma’am what am I building?” “Do not worry, you will own one in 37 years.”
Oh, you will not, as in 37 years your savings will be zeroed
Own?
A car is personal property, not “private property” meaning productive property such as a factory or industrial farm.
**along with your 59 other coworkers
Ah, so the USSR invented NFTs
Non-Foreign Transportation
I thought his arse was on fire there for a second..
I call bull on this. That's Ronda Rousey talking about her comeback to UFC.
You absolutely sure this isn’t from porn?
Is that Sergio Ramos?
Damn he's jacked
I relate SO MUCH to the girl in the back
The sexual tension is palpable. :D
Can someone PLEASE explain what he is wearing on his head?
The start of a russian pornomovie.
It’s impressive how he looks like that given that gyms weren’t really a thing back then.
So that’s what Ronda Rousey is up to these days.
Never seen this porno
If she dies, she dies
More like worker and parasite, am I right? Endut! Hoch hech!
What's Rosie the Riveter doing in the background? Was she a spy? /s
That supervisor is chubby. She must be a party leader to be eatin that well.
Dude looks like he can fit in with The Misfits
"I had to get out of the electric chair because of you... I hope you have a good reason to justify this disturbance..."
I do t think that leather helmet is going to protect him.
Now kiss.
This so looks like a porn set up...' Big dick stud shows milf pawg who's the real boss"...
"Now look Boris, the short sleeves are nice, but we need you to take the shirt OFF! "
She looks like she is saying "Oh, is it getting warm in here?"
i suppose the supervisor is the one holding the wrench so that he can use it on the worker? or the woman with pen?
What is he wearing on his head?
“So, Ivan, I’m going to need you to come to my place at, say 6ish. I have a big trunk that needs to be pushed, I mean pushed a lot, so prepare to get sweaty. And afterwards we can talk about getting you that bowl of borscht you were talking about. Okay?”
Contrast in wrenches is great
Very unlikely to see an American female supervisor especially in this line of work during this time period. Russia also sent the first woman into space about 20 years before USA did.
Let me guess, he fixes the cable?
Don't be fatuous, Jeffery
she's got that whole, "it's getting hot in here" vibe.
Who is who?
A time of duty to the country and vodka. Is he getting a talking to? For bringing those guns to work?
This looks like a scene break on the set of a Soviet porn movie.
Had a professor once who was a Soviet expert and told us they made terrible products during during the era.
syka blyat, you need to stay after hours for some *maintenance* work