Soviet children got acquainted with soldiers ... Mikhail Svishchev/TASS The military provided children with hazmat suits and gas masks. Sometimes Zarnitsa participants even got an opportunity ...

New photographs paint a haunting image of what remains of the once vibrant Soviet city of Pripyat in Ukraine Hundreds of gas masks, children's toys and picture books are among the personal items ...

In the Soviet Union, every elementary school ... mounting on strollers or sleds were developed for children who couldn’t yet wear gas masks because of their age. Archive photo Local civil ...

This specially-created one-off steampunk gas mask was made from leather, brass, and a Soviet-era gas mask. What’s special about this isn’t that it looks incredibly creepy and incredibly cool ...

I’d bring down Orson Welles too if someone scared me with one of these Overseer masks. This ghoulish, officer’s version has a built-in voice transmitter for giving orders. (The enlisted man ...

More than 40 million gas masks were issued. In America there was a gas mask for children that looked like Mickey Mouse, with the character's nose and ears and even a picture of him on the gas filter.

Demand for gas masks is skyrocketing because of fears over ... He was born in the former Soviet Union three months before the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. He was too young to remember that day ...

Fearing a chemical attack from the Germans the United States government distributed over 40 million gas masks to men, women, and children during WWII. However, since adult masks were too heavy and ...

To minimize children's pain, doctors today induce anesthesia with gas instead of the needle parents may remember getting. It should be simple: breathe through a mask for a few minutes and drift off.

GAS masks with covered breathing holes were put ... across have the hallmarks of the KGB secret service of the former Soviet Union, in which Vladimir Putin served as an officer.