What is this?

[Soviet]

can someone please tell me what the guy is wearing? Does it have something to do with a gas mask?

[Tim DC]

I don't think it would be very functional as a gas mask.
I'd say it protects against dust and/or heath?

(or just some guy trying to be funny but misleading us 60 years later )

[Maikäfer]

If these are gasmasks, they were a kind donation from the Soviet army no doubt. I just think that this is a little joke, nothing more.

[Soviet]

Well I didn't say these were gas mask. I said maybe it as something to do with them, like to put this underneath.