Moscow, 1950s

One of Americans’ long-standing assumption about Cold War-era Soviet Russia is that only high-ranking Communist Party officials got to drive cars, but at least a few of the shots from this recent English Russia post featuring the photography of Naum Granovskiy suggest that the streets of Moscow weren’t as bare as we imagine. Still don’t see much of what we in the United States would call traffic, but more than we’d expect. What do you see here?

(Thanks to reader April F for pointing these out.)