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The first one says
USSR (right below the star)
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a socialist state of workers and peasants
See http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/36cons01.html (constitution of the USSR), Article 1.
The second one says
"VKP(b)" in the top-right corner meaning All-Russian Communitst Party (bolsheviks) or All-Union ...
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I have dealt with this question in my article, "Nudity as a Costume in Classical Art," in American Journal of Archaeology 1989, which can be accessed either through JSTOR or through Academia.com, under my name. I am also editing a multi-author book, Nudity as a Costume in the Ancient Mediterranean, where I take up the subject of Greek nudity again.
The ...
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It's the same statue, the armour is removable.
The statue is today kept at the Museo Nacional Del Prado:
The Emperor stands over a nude figure representing Fury, which takes the form of a mature man in chains with an angry and hateful expression. Fury holds a lit torch in his right hand. The group rests on a base covered with arms and military ...
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The USSR was created in 1922 so the first one for sure cannot be from 1918. The cited first article of the constitution belongs to the constitution of 1936. The image clearly attributes it to the constitution (by small font below the phrase it says "from the constitution of the Soviet Union" and the entire phrase is in the quotes. So my guess is that the ...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a great page on this exact topic. The key ideas why there is so much male nudity are two-fold:
the Greek reverence for athletic competitions,
and the athletic male as the pinnacle of those athletic competitions.
Because the Greeks felt that sport was such an important part of what was good about humanity, ...
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This is the best I could find on this type of profane theatre. I found a lot on religious theatre, so I get the impression (rightly or wrongly) that much of the theatre was religious at the time and consequently (I'm assuming) not very erotic.
If you start reading from p200 it talks about nudity in Byzantine media. It seems that "nude images were associated ...
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You may wish to consult
GERMANY'S NAKED TRUTH
Quick summary (Quoted from the website)
GERMANY'S NAKED TRUTH German socialists saw nudism as a weapon of class struggle. George Hull investigates how nudist movements grew out of the crowded, dirty cities of the late 19th century before being co-opted by the Nazis in their quest for racial purity
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This definitely is descending from the ancient Greek tradition. You should consider the following:
The Germans claimed that they are heirs to the European ancestry and as such their art should resemble and surpass the art of ancient epochs. As the ancient Greek and Roman art were considered the highest examples of art, the Germans tried to simulate them.
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There is yet another reason why the male nude was common in Greece.
The Greeks were obsessed with perfect proportions in all of their art, for they saw these proportions as a sign of the divine cosmos. Perhaps the most notable of these monuments is the Parthenon and it's Golden Mean ratios, a temple dedicated to Athena, which very clearly links perfect ...
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As for the Roman Military they used a gladius you suggested as their main fighting tool.
To back up my answer this site has pictures and summaries of roman weapons etc (None of which seem to resemble a scimitar).
There are two types of these:
The first being the original shorter Gladius Hispaniensis.
The second being the more pointier Gladius Pompeianus
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