How people lived 70 80 ussr. How people lived in the last years of the ussr (photo)

Childhood memories of the USSR
kotichok :
my grandmother told me a lot about the 30s, 40s and 50s
especially in my memory was the story of how in 1939, when Soviet power came, half of the village came running to see how the Soviets drank vodka by the Granchaks
my grandmother said that earlier they could play a wedding with a bottle of vodka - and everyone had fun
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my father built the Moscow, Kharkov and Kiev subways
i worked a lot, I seemed to make money, but I did not have any cronies
i had to get everything
i remember when tangerines, bananas and "Evening Kiev" candies were "got", my parents looked so that I did not eat everything at once and did not become covered with diathesis)))

topof , "Eaglet 1988 Chinese wall stew":
Among the lucky ones was in the All-Russian camp Orlyonok in the summer of 1988 ... there were many children from all over the country ...
there were only 2 people from my city, after we were given the Great Wall Chinese canned meat on a camping trip to the All-Russian camp ... I realized that the USSR would not be coming soon00)) ... at that time ours still knew how to make normal canned meat .. ...
i experienced the second shock a couple of years later, when, having arrived in the village to visit relatives, instead of cream from my cow in a 3-liter jar, as usual, they began to smear Rama butter from a plastic jar ... agriculture was gone))))

tres_a :
Kiev, late 80s.
White bread could be bought only in one store and only within an hour after delivery - in the morning and at lunchtime. Where it was stale among the loaves - I still don't understand.
Ice-cream sundae in chocolate was rarely brought and only in milk (a special store with dairy products, in other grocery stores, milk was rarely brought in and stale).
In all stores there was a smell of bleach and rot (even in the central ones).
Children in public transport stood if there was someone adult (from 4-5 years old).
Few overweight people, of the children generally one or two for the entire school (in those schools that I know, there were up to 1000 students then).
For a cigarette they could be pulled by the ears and taken to their parents. Police 150% did so.
Clean-ups and other voluntary-compulsory activities (I still don't understand why I should clean if someone gets paid for it).
Politics and adult topics were not discussed in front of children.

tol39 (Born 1975):
You could buy bread here before lunch, after lunch you could fly, because bread was usually sorted out during the lunch break, which was from one to two in factories, and from two to three in stores. We had four kinds of ice cream - in waffle cups, we didn't have it on sale, my father brought it from the city. Eskimo, expensive and not very common, still by weight, very tasty, in such casings. And the products of our local dairy are in paper cups and with ice crystals. There was a specific smell in the shops, only it was not rotten, it smelled like the barrels that were always in the back rooms.
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Well, firstly, it was childhood, and it was good, I was born in 1975. Until 87-88, everything was generally fine, and then the word "deficit" appeared. In fact, it was before, but it belonged to the category of things that were not very significant in everyday life. There was a feeling of close changes, exciting, as happens when you roll down on a springboard to take off, but there was no takeoff. We crashed into the dirty mess of the nineties all the way. Black T-shirts, chains, nunchucks, Royal alcohol and all. How I survived, hell knows.

true_frog (Born 1952):
My year of birth is 1952. This means that all my conscious life fell on the USSR.
Childhood. All the fun was on the street and in the yard. It was impossible to drive the children into the apartment. In the evening, windows and vents were opened: mothers called children from the yard. They played calm and active games, tennis, volleyball. On rainy days, they played in the entrance. Even in winter, in the dark, we girls were not forbidden to walk. We moved a lot. They went to school only on foot, no matter how far it was. For some reason, it was not accepted to travel by bus. Fat children - "fattrests" - were rare and despised by all.
Starting from the first grade, students first did a little cleaning in the classroom, and then they themselves washed the floors in the classrooms.
They collected either scrap metal, or empty bottles, or waste paper. It was not scary to send children to unfamiliar apartments.
There were a lot of different circles. Only in the music school was tuition paid, all the rest (sports and art) were completely free. The huge House of Pioneers, where you could do anything for free - even ballet, even boxing. Every child could try himself in any activity.
Even preschoolers were sent to pioneer camps. They lived there in one-story dachas, half of them were boys, half were girls. The toilet with a hole in the floor is outside, the water is only cold in the washstands outside. Compulsory general exercises in the morning. The children themselves were on duty at the gates of the pioneer camp and in the dining room. The dishes were not washed, but the bread was cut and the dishes were arranged.
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Yes, "the key under the rug" was everywhere in childhood, even in the city, and in the late 70s, in our youth, in a small village in the Far North, we inserted a stick into the latch when we left home. In the early 80s, again in the city, the entrance doors were locked only at night, sometimes I forgot, and they slept not closed all night. When we moved to a new apartment, the door was closed at night with the washing machine until the lock was inserted.
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From youth. In the first two years of university - cleaning. We are a little surprised why the collective farmers bend their backs in their gardens while we throw grain on the current, but in general we are having a great time: we learn to heat the stove, cook our own food on it, ride horses, drive a motorcycle, and arrange concerts.
In the 70s, a brass band can still be found at dances, not yet replaced by electric music.
Girls and girls are supposed to walk with their hair gathered. Ponytail is cool. And loose hair - well, that's only in foreign movies.
They dressed, of course, gray. I went to the first harvest in a quilted jacket, because jackets were rare, I sewed my first jacket in an atelier. It was strange to look at the bright clothes of Soviet film heroes in the movies: in life they did not dress like that. I remember being amazed at the bright red jacket of the daughter of a professor from Gentlemen of Fortune.
It was not possible to dress like everyone else in the studio, but getting there was not easy: there was also a queue. Good but worn items were available from thrift stores.
Well, I will also contribute to the discussion of the food program. In the 60s, we first lived in the Far East. There were no problems with the products. In 1963 they lived in Tuva. It’s there that the queue for milk was taken from the night. In 1964 we moved to Tyumen and saw a food paradise. The counters were decorated with cans of condensed milk, the sausage was bought at 200 grams, fresh, all kinds of compotes in cans in bulk. I don't remember when it all disappeared.

razumovsky4 , "The key is under the rug ....":
Everything is correct. 1951. Hide and seek, catch-up, rounders, table tennis, badminton, swords, swords, toy pistols, bicycles, a river in the weather, and, of course, the king of all games is football. From morning to evening. At the small gate.
And more girls in the "classics" and in the "stander." And so on until dark. And it got dark - so still some thread of the game with running around with flashlights with Chinese or German daimons. On the feet are either Chinese, Vietnamese or Czech sneakers. Sweatpants such as harem pants and a shirt. Forever in bruises, bruises and scratches. In winter, skates - from snow maidens - to knives, skis, sledges, hockey.
There was no time for lessons. An hour at most - and then somehow, quickly you need to run into the yard, chase the ball.
There are many circles in the House of Pioneers. In the summer - yes, a pioneer camp, with hikes and a river and a forest and amateur performances - the same games and competitions. Not boring.
That's right, there were practically no fat ones. Slim and agile. And they almost didn’t swear (until a certain age) And there’s nothing to say about girls. They did not smoke on such a scale. And we never heard of pedophiles and drugs. You fly home, there is a note in the doorway - "Key under the rug"))))

lexyara :
But I'll drop it. A little bit. (63-76 years of the last century)
I was born and lived in the city of Krasnoyarsk. My father was a pilot and often flew to our capital. From there he brought all sorts of goodies. There were no goodies in Krasnoyarsk (or rather, they were, but some "clumsy".)
By "clumsy" it is meant that ... But everyone wanted butter not salty, and the shops were packed with salty. There were no bananas or oranges. There were no batteries for the flashlight either (the "junk dealers" came and exchanged junk for batteries, pistons and other nonsense).
The bread and buns in the Khlib store were always fresh. Vegetables, pasta (long ones like a modern ballpoint pen), sugar, salt, matches, soap, etc. have always been in stores. Even if rumors crept - "Tomorrow is a war, there will be no salt." She was.
Of course, there was no shortage of it. These are toilet paper (important), glazed curd cheeses, "Bird's milk" cake, "Bear in the North" or "Squirrel" candies. Dad brought this from Moscow. Ice cream was always there. "Leningradskoye" appeared quite rarely (once or twice a week, everyone knew in advance when they would bring it). Groats - it was a blockage. Here with sausage and sausages - trouble. But sometimes it was not lying on the floor. At that time I was not familiar with alcohol, so I will not say anything. Cigarettes were always on sale (although I didn't smoke, I remember).
Somehow I was not interested in clothes. I didn’t iron the pioneer tie every day. There was no uniform uniform at school.
Here's what was interesting. The streets could be walked at any time. No fear that they will stop you and shake all the little things out of your pockets. If an incident happened in the area, then they would gossip about this case for months. Children could go to all kinds of "circles", "studios", etc. Is free. I went to the "aircraft modeling club". Ely-pala, Gazprom has never dreamed of funding such a circle to this day (the toad will strangle).
And the machines were there, and they provided material (something expensive), and different people took us to competitions.
In the summer it was possible (again for free) to go to the pioneer camp. They were fed "for slaughter". I did not observe any "bullying" there.
About everyday life. In the evenings, the neighbors would gather in the yard and play dominoes, bingo ... well, they just chatted in a friendly way. The neighbors (who had children) gave us theater performances (with our participation). A puppet show was organized, slide shows on a sheet, etc.
Yes. Everyone did not have cars (some of them, of course).
From a material point of view (sausage, delicacies, clothes, cars, roads), everything was rather regrettable. I don’t deny it. But there were also many advantages.

General impressions and reasoning

alexandr_sam :
1965 USSR. Mom is a railway woman, dad is an electrician in a mine, then for health reasons left as a refrigeration unit operator. The salary for the whole family is 200 rubles. I am 7 years old, sister 5. No one has ever given us any apartments. all their lives they lived in their own shack and still built something like a house, if it could be called that - amenities in the yard.
I bought the refrigerator when I was already married in the mid-80s. We only dreamed about smoked sausage in childhood. There was never enough money. We bought ice cream once or twice a year. They kept their chickens - eggs, meat. We planted potatoes, corn, seeds in the garden (outside the city). Oil (unrefined) was obtained from the seeds.
TV appeared in the late 60s. "Zarya" was called. Black and white. The screen size is the same as that of the iPad. ;-)
I don't even want to remember. Dreamed of the great "Penza". True, they bought a used Eaglet. I used it to plow the state farm in the summer. He carried water and watered cucumbers. They paid about 40 rubles a month. I bought myself a watch. And the stupid teacher forbade wearing them to school. Impermissible, they say, luxury.
Lived and fattened in our city only workers of the city committee, the city executive committee, and all the trade and audit scum. Until 1974, beggars constantly walked the streets. The mother usually gave them a piece of bread and a couple of eggs. And there was nothing more to give. There was grub in stores until 1977, but there was not enough money. And by the end of the 70s, everything began to disappear from us. They dragged sausage and butter from Ukraine, since she was nearby.
They stole everything. It was possible to steal from the state - no one condemned. Country of thugs.
Then the army. Hazing, lies about Afghanistan, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, political studies, drill and stupidity.
Finally, Perestroika and Glasnost. Glory to Gorbachev! He delivered us from that shameful and gray life.
I felt free only in the late 80s - early 90s. It was difficult, I do not argue, but it is better this way than with the advice.
Now Russia is living the way it has never lived before. Putin is a chance for Russia. At the same time, I ask my future critics to note that I have never held government positions and have nothing to do with oil and gas. He did not steal a single budgetary ruble, and he never had anything to do with budget money.
So, in short. I have lived 55 years and I know what I am talking about. I have seen a lot in my life. And I laugh at thirty-year-old idiots who praise the Soviet regime and the Soviet Union. You wouldn't have lived there for a week. They would break from there like elk!
I don't need this USSR. God forbid my children from such an artificial and deceitful country.
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It was all about lies and hypocrisy. Still hiccupped. Do you think today's corruption is an invention of Yeltsin and Putin? Horseradish! The foundation was laid by Lenin and Stalin. Just dig deeper, gentlemen, and do not nod at the kings. Little of them remained after October 1917 ...

mariyavs :
I will not be original. Those my grandmothers who did not have problems with food and clothing due to their positions and grandfathers have only happy memories. Sanatoriums on trade union vouchers, free travel to the place of vacation and back, vouchers for children to camps, order tables, officer's department stores ... And who was "simpler" - a deficit, queues, give - take it (you need it or not, then you will figure it out) , "sausage tours" in Moscow time. But, of course, there were some good things. Children's leisure time was organized and accessible to the majority, an atmosphere of friendship and trust in a neighbor. There were enough reptiles, of course, even then. But the children were allowed to go outside alone and were not afraid.

psy_park :
There was a lot of bad and a lot of good - as, however, always and everywhere in the world. But about the bread - it was much better than the current one. Then there were no leavening agents, flavoring agents, flavoring agents, etc. I especially miss the 16 kopeck rye made from coarse flour - now there is no such thing in Moscow. And, of course, a white hearth - 28 kopecks each. and gray - 20 kopecks. Unfortunately, they are not there either.
Yes, in the bakeries there were special large two-pronged forks or spoons tied or simply lying - to check the "softness" of the bread and many poked and crumpled the bread with them. Although almost always the bread was from the same machine and all the same, but since the fork was lying, many people used it. True, they were mainly old women. In our bakery in the next section - in the "grocery", it was possible not only to buy gingerbread candies, but also to drink a glass of tea or coffee (black or with milk) near a standing table. Tea with sugar - 3 kopecks. Coffee - 10-15 kopecks. The taste is not great, of course, but quite tolerable. And if you also buy a bun - from 10 to 15 kopecks, then it was quite possible to have a snack. Trivial, but now there is no such thing, which is a pity. All this is Moscow. In Leningrad - about the same. And in other places with food was not so good, unfortunately. Although, no one ever went hungry. Naturally, in the period from the late 50s - early 60s. until 89-91. Yes, I can’t resist - and the ice cream was not made with palm oil.

raseyskiy :
In Soviet times, there were no chocolate sweets in the shops, and the queue for dairy products was at 6 am (Moscow does not count). There was no meat in stores, and neither was sausage. There was a term "thrown out" in the sale of a deficit, well, for example, instant coffee - a queue of hundreds of people, although for coffee there was a queue in Moscow.
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... a number of cities were supplied relatively well, while in others even sprats in tomato sauce were rare. ... 70s and 80s. In those years, for the most part, everything and everything was bought in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk ... i.e. on vacation, business trip, etc.

tintarula :
I spent my childhood in a private house on the working-class outskirts of Vladivostok, and, like any childhood, it was full of sledding, fiddling in the garden, vegetables and berries "from the bush", games, friendship and betrayal - in general, everything is fine. There were few books in the house, but they subscribed to children's magazines, a school library, a TV set from neighbors. Then there was almost no deficit, there was a small amount of money.
A more or less conscious age is the end of the 60s, and then the 70s. I studied this and that, I worked. In general, "what they don't know, they don't feel it." In general, everything suited me. Well, yes, the sausage began to disappear (dry - almost completely, but Vlad is a sea city, there was a lot of fish (it never came to an end, so during the "Gaidar famine" we did not starve, and the stories of friends from Russian centers are strange to me, how it was difficult to get food.) In '74 or '75, it seems, the Mona Lisa was brought to Moscow, and we (three friends) went to watch it - in a common carriage back and forth. We scampered around Moscow for about a month, went to theaters, drove to Leningrad and Luga (where they knew each other, including acquaintances of acquaintances - they had to live somewhere).
The shortage of books was a big hindrance, but my friend's sister worked at the Research Institute of Marine Biology, and there the people were advanced, the Strugatskys got them in manuscripts, and my friend and sister copied them by hand. And I rewrote "The Master and Margarita". That is, we were "in the know".
And still it was youth, and therefore good. And in general, in my opinion, "good" and "bad" are personal private feelings, not too dependent on the circumstances of life. The "dashing 90s" were not dashing for me either, role-playing games appeared in the 90s - and in the same way we went to Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk (to Khabar - in a common carriage), and it was good.
Yes, and now it is good.

ular76 :
come from two specifically counter-revolutionary families.
therefore, I have no claims to the Soviet power.
childhood was happy and carefree.
i did not experience any restrictions in education, sports, food, rest and happy pastime.
for which I am deeply grateful to the entire Soviet people.
i do not suffer from any illusions about the liberoid-thieves' domestic policy of modern Russia, but calmly observe the natural course of changes and transformations.

Discussions

belara83 :
50% of some kind of nonsense is written, queues have been this phenomenon since 89, until then, well, there were 5-10 people, they sat down for something like that. No one was starving, Everyone had a job, but there was no chic, there was a shortage of imported things, but now people have a lot of choice and problems are above the roof ... I lived in the village, my mother bought ice cream for our children with boxes ... Bread was always and cost 16 kopecks , and white 20 kopecks !!! Sausage 2.2 p kg, 2.8 kg, is boiled.
But people lived more calmly, they understood that tomorrow everyone is in a nervous tension, they don’t know what will happen to them tomorrow. Nothing happened to us without imported clothes and everything else, there was no need to destroy the whole country, it was possible to change something and leave a lot, no "to the ground and then" ordinary people suffered as a result ...

30s
katrinkuv:
Yes, living people who remember the 30s are unlikely to write here. But I remember what my grandmother told me, then my aunt confirmed.
Then they lived on Krasnoselskaya, in the house where Utesov lived. The house was off the Railroad. My grandfather worked there. Well, I think it's not necessary to talk about what 37 is. They took everyone around !!! I don't know why, maybe that's why, but my grandfather didn't work. And every day I went skating to Sokolniki. Grandma said that the "funnel" was expected every night. A bag with belongings stood at the door, awaiting arrest. Kaganovich warned. (honestly, I don’t know this relationship, my grandfather was not even 30 at that time, why Kaganovich was close to this “boy” - my grandfather - I don’t know, but my aunt prays for him, says that he saved my grandfather’s life, which means and to me, my father was already born at 44) and "sent" the family of my father's parents to Kaluga. Something like that…
I still have many memories of life in Moscow from my ancestors.

50s
laisr:
Life was not raspberry. Father returned from 4-year German captivity at the end of the war. He was met in the village by his hungry wife and two children. And I was born in 46. To feed the family, my father and five fellow villagers, who were equally hungry, stole a bag of wheat during sowing. Someone has laid, a search at my father's. The accomplices, more cunning, advised the father to take everything upon himself, otherwise, they say, they would put everyone in prison for 25 years in a group. The father served 5 years. With my current mind I am joking, Hitler held him for four years, well, but Stalin could not give less, so he was imprisoned for five years. In the 50s, I did not gorge on bread, so, probably, today I eat everything with bread, even pasta, sometimes I joke to my friends about this that I even eat bread with bread!

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On my second year (1962) in Ufa, in a department store, absolutely on the occasion, luckily, I bought Japanese nylon swimming trunks! Then ours were rag with two laces on the side for tying on the thigh. The Japanese were shaped like shorts, pretty, vertical striped, tight. I wore them for a very long time, and now they are lying around somewhere. Here is the memory of my student life!

60s
yuryper, "about the shortage of bread":
somewhere in 63 or 64 in Moscow, flour was distributed through the house management, according to the number of prescribed ones. She was not in the stores. In the summer we went to Sukhumi, it turned out that white bread was only for locals, on ration cards.
In Moscow, bread did not disappear, but the variety characteristic of the early 60s gradually diminished, and by the early 70s this difference had already become very noticeable.

70s
sitki:
Early 70s, my mother-in-law is a single mother, Krasnoe Selo, pay 90 rubles.
Every (!) Year I took my son out to sea. Yes, a savage; yes, sometimes they brought canned food with them and ate them all month. But now my husband tells me about those trips with rapture. This is his childhood.
What kind of cleaning lady can take a child to the sea for a month now?

pumbalicho (8-10 years old):
For some reason, the 70s were engraved in my memory ... Those were good years. And not only economically (I suspect that abundance was not everywhere. But I still cannot forget the shop windows of that time), but also with some kind of special cohesion or something ... I remember they reported the death of three Soviet cosmonauts at once - no one did not order, but people were really crying in the streets ...

matsea:
We walked in yards from 4-5 years old alone. I was about 8 years old (early 70s) when a schoolgirl was killed in the Udelny park next door. The children continued to walk alone. Well, that was life.

80s
matsea (born 1964):
I remember well the expectation of the first spring salad (I am 64th year). There was no fruit in winter. In the fall, apples are many and inexpensive. By November, they are sold in brown specks and are expensive. They are gone by January. If you're lucky, you can catch Moroccan oranges on the occasion. Infrequently. Peter, winter darkness, vitamin deficiency. And to shoot tomatoes with sour cream at night, so red. And now March and happiness - thrown away the hydroponic cucumbers. Long ones, dark green, like crocodiles. Three pieces per kilogram, a kilo in one hand. Enough - not enough? Enough! We defended it for about forty minutes, brought it. Salad with onions, eggs, and hydroponic cucumbers - hurray, spring has come! All right, now you can safely wait for the tomatoes. It's not until June.

mans626262:
the leading engineer in the late 70s and early 80s had a salary of 180 rubles - that's me personally about myself at the research institute.

michel62 (born 1962):
At 82 meters I went to Donetsk by bus for sausage and butter from Rostov-on-Don. At my mother's watch factory, these trips were organized. To Donetsk, to Voroshilovograd.
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Struck!
When I arrived as a young specialist in the Penza region and, working as a road foreman, I wandered around the villages, maintaining local roads, I saw so many different imported clothes in the village shops that it took my breath away. There I bought shoes and a coat for my wife ... The villagers looked at me as if I were crazy. You know, it's impressive when galoshes and Italian shoes are on the same counter, and a sweatshirt and a Finnish coat are hanging next to a clothes hanger ... It was simply impossible to buy something out of clothes in Rostov. The queues were busy in the evening. All only from under the floor or by pull. I have a feeling that if jeans or something like that were freely sold during the Soviet era, then there would be no perestroika and subsequent disintegration.
***
Born in 62 in Rostov-on-Don
Of course, the USSR for me is childhood, adolescence, growing up, the first child ...
I am now looking at how my son (16 years old) lives and it seems to me that we were happier in childhood. Even if I didn’t travel abroad with my parents and they bought me my first jeans when I was in my first year at the institute. But everything was somehow saturated. This is my personal opinion and I'm not going to argue with anyone. I remember how, already working, I was asked by the Party organizer at the reporting meeting (he worked as a chief engineer of one commun. Sharaga): "How did you MM reorganize? ..." lunch "demagogue")? What did I have to rebuild in myself if I - a young guy - worked conscientiously and to wear and tear? ... In the family, when I was a boy, there was a sack of food. Food was in the first place. my father changed my clothes from his own. By the way, my father was the head of the enterprise, but we didn't have any chic in our house. But my father's attitude to the USSR was like this: "If they told me, an officer of the Soviet army, to shoot I would have shot a gun and shot ... ". I remember in the year 72 -74m on the street there was a rumor that they were selling pepsicol ... I stood in line for two hours and took two shopping bags ... I still swear when I remember how her home. Memories of pioneer camps are very warm. Every summer for three shifts in different camps. Vacation at home was only Friday 10-10 before September 1st ....
And while working, he adapted like everyone else so that he could take his wife to a barbecue on the left bank of the Don on weekends and go on vacation in the summer. Now I have vacation for a maximum of a week, if I'm lucky ... I remember how my mother came from a business trip to Moscow. We met her with the whole family. Poor - how she pearled all those bags of sausage and oranges ...
I also remember the Diet store, where my mother and I went when she picked me up from the kindergarten. She bought three hundred grams of sausages (of course not Moscow and not cervelat) from a doctor's or an amateur's and asked to cut a little for me. And next to it was a bread, where we bought FRESH bread. So I walked munching on a sausage sandwich. I have never seen more such taste of sausage and bread. Of course, delicacies were always in short supply, but for the holidays, parents got them. I remember the queues for carpets, dishes and clothes ... I lived right next to the Solnyshko department store and I remember all this well. The queue was occupied in the evening and the crowd was crowded all night (I lived on the second floor and all this happened under our balcony). I remember the "Ocean" store on Semashko, where carp and sturgeon swam in an aquarium. And then the same "Ocean", where there was nothing but shrimp briquettes and some crap like seaweed. I remember coupons for vodka and butter. But this is already at the end of the USSR. But I worked in a road organization and was "spinning". (just don't say that because of people like me we have bad roads). Those who wanted to live turned around. Everything was good and bad. Now, of course, good things come to mind. The bad is forgotten. It was forgotten that I did not have a tape recorder in my childhood. But I remember New Year's gifts from the Christmas tree in the recreation center. The queues for beer are forgotten, but I remember its taste and the fact that it sour in a day and not in a month. With a smile, I remember how I was driving home from work in a packed bus, holding a plastic bag with beer in my hand above my head, and there were many like me ... Everything was - both good and bad. One can argue about this time before the carrot plot, but this was and is remembered with a smile.

nord100:
I remember my first business trip to Vilnius. It was around 1982. I was shocked by what I saw abroad. Then I picked up coffee beans, for a whole year ahead.
In the same years, I visited Moldova for the first time, where I was struck by the abundance of imports in stores. And the books! I have not seen so many hard-to-find books since childhood!
I also remember my trip to Kuibyshev in the late 80s. In the evening I checked into a hotel and decided to buy food for dinner at the grocery store. Nothing came of it - I didn't have local coupons ...
I remember many things about those years, but mostly with warmth. After all, that was youth :)

Second half of the 80s
frauenheld2:
I remember that I was engaged in fartsovka - just somewhere in the 89-90s)
You go there - "Kaugumi, chungam", but since it's a shame - sometimes you just ask for the time, in Russian, of course. But foreigners do not understand, and they give something - sweets, chewing gum, pens. Now it seems - trifles, but at school I went to the king with these colored pens, and for chewing gum (!), Classmates just did not kiss my feet.

alyk99:
Secondary School No. 1 in Zvenigorod, Moscow Region. I am 10 years old (1986), there is some kind of meeting in the assembly hall. The director broadcasts: "We vote. Who is for?"
We all raise our hands as one. "Who is against?" Two lonely hands of some high school students are raised. The principal starts shouting: "How can you? Hooligans! Get out of the hall! Shame on the school!"
In the evening I tell the story to my mother and add on my own that the high school students acted disgracefully. “Why?” She asks. “Maybe they had a different opinion. What's so shameful?” I remember very well that it was at that moment that I first understood what it was like to be one of the wordless sheep in the herd.

Childhood memories of the USSR
roosich (was 10 years old in 1988):
Something about the stories of this lady, who went abroad, about the absence of bread in the USSR (apparently, we are not talking about 20-30 years, but about 70-80s) do not inspire confidence.
My childhood was in the 80s. I was born and still live my whole life in a small town near Moscow. With my parents (with my father, to be more precise) we often went to Moscow on weekends. But not for groceries, as supposedly the rest of the USSR, but just for a walk - VDNKh, Gorky Park, museums, exhibitions, etc. And there was enough food in our local stores. Of course, there was no such abundance on the shelves as now, but no one went hungry. Here, of course, they can object to me that a small but near Moscow town is far from the same as an equally small town, but somewhere in a remote province ... But the majority still did not live as hermits in distant villages. The deficit began to manifest itself quite actively only in the year 88.
Continuing the store theme, now about manufactured goods. I remember somewhere in the mid-80s - in our local manufactured goods store I saw on the counters and TVs, and refrigerators, and washing machines, and players (cassette recorders only began to appear in the late 80s), and radios, and clothes with shoes, and stationery .... Another thing is that by the standards of the then average salaries (for the mid-80s, somewhere around 200 with a little rubles), these household appliances were quite expensive. I remember our first color TV - a hefty and heavy "Ruby", bought only in 1987, cost well for 300 rubles.
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But when compared with today, the most radical difference from that time is people. Then, of course, different people could meet in life, but now - man to man is a wolf. Today's parents are afraid to let their children go for a walk, even in the neighboring yard, but they were not afraid to let us go then. And not only to the neighboring yard. And until late at night.
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The USSR of the 88th year model is no longer the same country that it was back in the years 83-85. Although it would seem that only a few years have passed, there were already quite striking differences.
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So I say that the general deficit of everything and everyone with absolutely empty counters and kilometer-long queues to them with coupons and cards came only at the very end of the 80s! And the author / means the author of the project vg_saveliev) apparently thinks that under the USSR people lived like in the Stone Age, and as the democrats came, happiness immediately came. But the Russian people did not believe this happiness and began to die out by 1 million a year.
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Yes, I still remember in 1988 I went on vacation in the summer with my aunt and her son (that is, my cousin) to the village to her relatives somewhere on the border of the Moscow and Tula regions. The village was alive. There was work in the village. And there are a lot of middle-aged hardworking people, and a lot of children .... I think now in most of these rural places only a few old people remained, but summer residents appeared.

General impressions and reasoning
lamois (born 1956):
Tell me, do memories have to be negative? Judging by the laid out - yes, you started just such a selection.
And if I write that I am happy that I was born in 1956 and saw many difficulties, but also a lot of happiness, as at any time. My parents are teachers, they opened a secondary school in a virgin village. People were sincere in their enthusiasm and unfeigned love for each other. I do not regret that those days are over, everything ends sooner or later. But I will never throw a stone into the history of my country. But you are not ashamed.
They write how they hated school rulers, but I remember the fun and exciting game Zarnitsa, hiking, songs with a guitar. Each person has his own childhood and youth and they are good at any time. And now it is infinitely difficult for many, the current difficulties are not much easier, and for many more difficult than then. For the majority, the loss of cultural identity is a greater tragedy than the then shortage of sausage for some particularly hungry, although it was precisely that there were no hungry then, but now they are. But I don't trust people who remember their childhood with hatred or regret. These are unhappy people, and they are always biased, just like you, in fact.
I am sure that you will never publish my opinion on your site.

vit_r
Well, queues, well, deficits.
A man with a backpack, coming to any kishlak, to any village, and in any town could find shelter and lodging for the night. An acquaintance of acquaintances was given keys and left in the apartment, where money and crystal lay on the shelf.
And compare. I know those who now do not have enough money for bread. The ceiling has gone up. But not for everyone. The population declined and oil prices skyrocketed. The union collapsed when there was no longer enough oil to import goods and export communism. And then the party and economic bosses lived more abruptly than the current oligarchs.
The only problem with the union was that there was no way out of it. This is yes.

chimkentec:
No, the party and economic bosses then did not live more abruptly than the current oligarchs. The party-economic bosses were likewise inaccessible to what for the majority of people in developed countries was consumer goods.
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... my grandfather was the "business boss", the head of YuzhKazGlavSnab, an organization that supplied three Kazakhstani regions.
But he, just like all the other townspeople, could not buy normal coffee, he could not repair the TV for six months (there were no necessary spare parts). He had to convert his own bathhouse into a barn.
He had a dream - he wanted to grow a lawn in the country. And he even managed to get the seeds of the lawn grass. But he could not get the simplest electric lawn mower - someone decided that the Soviet citizens did not need lawn mowers.

There will also be a heading "Without exact time designation" and "Discussions". So far, these materials have not fit.
There are a lot of stories without a clear indication of time and age. Try to be more specific in time.

How we lived in THE USSR?

People tend to remember in life, basically, only good things. And this is a very useful evolutionary acquisition. Thanks to him, we live like people, and not like angry dogs barking at everything around for no apparent reason. Almost everyone who shares their memories of life in (these are those who were already an adult 25 years ago) write that they have the best feelings about that time; evoking a storm of emotions memories of a carefree childhood, first love, ice cream for 9 kopecks, cheerful student life and many others, of course, pleasant and positive events. Without denying the pleasantness of good feelings and remembering that assessments of the same events can be completely different if analyzed for different purposes, I will try in this article to briefly understand not the feelings that different people caused by different events, but with that, what was the USSR really.

This must be done because today many public and political figures are very persistent, rather even intrusive, praise the USSR, tirelessly repeating that there we had supposedly free education, free medical care; supposedly free housing, free or very cheap vacation; and a lot of everything else, just as tasty, beautiful and also supposedly free. This enemy Zionist propaganda, with all its might untwisted by the enemies, is designed primarily for the youth, which at one time did not have time to thoroughly consider all the "delights" of the Soviet life order and therefore has to take such clever oracles at their word.

In order to understand what the USSR was like in reality, we need very little:

• Find out who and when invented communism?
• Find out why the USSR was created?
• Find out who received the main benefits from this project?

So let's look for answers to these questions, especially since there is more than enough information for thought today.

Who invented communism and when?

It is generally accepted that two Jews invented communism: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels... In 1848, they published the Communist Manifesto, which highlights the following lines: “Communists consider it a despicable thing to conceal their views and intentions. They openly declare that their goals can be achieved only through the violent overthrow of the entire existing social order. Let the ruling classes shudder before the Communist Revolution ... " However, it is known that these works of "German" philosophers were generously paid.

"Communism is the brainchild of the Jews!"

In 2001, a book by an American historian and publicist appeared in Russia David Duke entitled "The Jewish Question Through the Eyes of an American." The author describes how he, while still a schoolboy, stumbled upon the truth about the creators of communism in America, while working as a volunteer in the office of a public organization. But he did not believe what was written in the newspapers and decided to check everything himself ... Now he has been for many years speaks the truth loudly about the real role of Jews in many social processes on the planet, ranging from the organization of the slave trade, and ending with wars, revolutions and environmental disasters. Dr. David Duke maintains its website on the Internet (in English) and constantly uploads it on its channel in Youtube video messages dedicated to the next exposure of the subversive role of the "chosen people" on Earth. We translate these small, unique films into Russian and post them on "Sovetnik" and "Molvitsa" ...

"The CPSU was created by the Jews!"

On April 24, 2013, Nikolai Starikov on his website very well described who, how and when established the party RSDLP, which later became known as The Communist Party... You can read about this in the article. The author writes that there is a house-museum in Minsk, in which on March 1-3, 1898 constituent First Congress of the RSDLP (Russian Social Democratic Labor Party - predecessor The Communist Party). All programmatic and other necessary documents of this party were adopted later, at the II Congress in 1903 in London... And this congress was only supposed to create a party. The founders of the future were the following Jewish comrades:

• Eidelman Boris Lvovich (1867-1939)
• Vigdorchik Natan Abramovich (1874-1954)
• Mutnik Abram Yakovlevich (1868-1930)
• Katz Shmuel Shneerovich (1878-1928)
• Tuchapsky Pavel Lukich (1869-1922)
• Radchenko Stepan Ivanovich (1868-1911)
• Vannovsky Alexander Alekseevich (1874-1967)
• Petrusevich Kazimir Adamovich (1872-1949)
• Kremer Aaron Iosifovich (1865-1935)

This is an exhaustive answer to the question: “ who invented communism? "... I repeat, communism was invented by persons of Jewish nationality who have a Jewish religion. Why is it so important? Because this people had the misfortune to be chosen by certain Powers to achieve certain goals. Information about which Forces chose them, and what tasks they set before the Jews, is discussed in detail in the book of the academician Nikolay Levashov .

This is more or less clear. Now - the next question: “ why did they come up with communism?».

This question is answered by Communist Manifestowhich the text has turned into "Project of the Communist Creed", written at the beginning of 1847 by the merchant's son Friedrich Engels and his partner, the rabbi's son Karl Marx - members of the "Union of Communists", based in. Here is a pertinent quote from the Manifesto: “The history of all hitherto existing societies has been the history of the struggle of classes ... Modern bourgeois private property is the last and most complete expression of such production and appropriation of products, which rests on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of some by others. In this sense, communists can express their theory in one statement: destruction of private property…»

I hope everyone understands that if somewhere private property is destroyed, i.e. is taken away, then in another place (from customers who paid for the work of the authors), it arrives, i.e. increases. Anyone who does not understand this "law of preservation of property" may remember how the Jews carried out privatization in Russia in the early dashing 90s. That's the whole answer. Although, it can be supplemented a little, to expand, so to speak, horizons ...

If you take a closer look at the revolutions organized in France and in other countries, and compare the methodology with modern so-called. "Orange revolutions", then we will see an amazing coincidence! Moreover, the communist slogans "Equality, Brotherhood, Happiness" used by the Jews during the organization of the first revolution (coup d'etat) in Persia in the 4th century BC! And then - again during the second coup and the robbery of Persia in the 5th century AD. (they then substituted the vizier Mazdak in their place).

Why was the USSR created?

The treaty on the formation of the USSR was signed on December 29, 1922, and the next day, December 30 of the same year, the First All-Union Congress of Soviets promptly and unanimously approved it.

Knowing who and for what purpose created the communist idea and put it into practice, the answer to the question posed can be obtained almost automatically: the USSR was created by the Jews for enslavementfollowed by robbery and destruction The Russian Empire, the Russian people and subsequently the entire white race on the planet. How the founders of the ideology of communism actually treated the Slavs in general and the Russians and Russia in particular can be read in the article by A. Ulyanov. Hatred of the highest degree and a wild desire to destroy these "unhistorical", reactionary peoples, standing on the path of the world revolution, as "special enemies of democracy."

It was for this that I came to Russia with a lot of money, with weapons and hired bandits from New York Leiba Bronstein (Leon Trotsky), on whose conscience there were then millions of ruined lives of Russian people. Money, weapons and bandits were supplied to Leiba by Trotsky, among many others, by his distant relative Jacob Schiff - American banker and pathological Russophobe.

Comrade Bronstein was the ideological enemy of everything Russian and did not hide this, openly expressing the aspirations of his sponsors: “... We must turn Russia into one inhabited by white blacks, to whom we will give such a tyranny that the most terrible despots of the East have never dreamed of. The only difference is that this tyranny will not be on the right, but on the left, and not white, but red, for we will shed such streams of blood, before which all the human losses of capitalist wars will shudder and pale ... "

During the civil war, both Americans and Europeans actively helped the chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council Leiba Trotsky. They even sent him a special armored train equipped with the most modern means of communication at the time and many other wonders. This is how Leiba Davydovich himself wrote about this miracle of technology: “… He was a flying control apparatus. A secretariat, a printing house, a telegraph, a radio, a power station, a library, a garage and a bathhouse worked on the train. The train was so heavy that it had two steam locomotives. Then I had to split it into two trains ... "

Trotsky managed to do a lot during the time that he was actually at the helm of the USSR (Trotsky's Revolutionary Military Council was an organ of power parallel to the Council of People's Commissars of Lenin). And he would have finished his work - until the last Russianif, luckily for us, he hadn't stopped Joseph Dzhugashvili (Stalin). Comrade Stalin, having consulted with his other comrades, rightly judged that since they had seized power in Russia, it would be useless to give the country and all the goods to the American and British, and it is better to try to reign as much as they can, especially since the banksters investments in "Revolution" returned, and even with huge percentages.

Stalin and his comrades also had plans to own the world. They strove to create the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of the World ( USSRM). Speaking to the delegates of the V Congress of the Comintern on July 17, 1924, the chairman of the executive committee of the Comintern, Grigory Zinoviev, said: "There is no victory yet, and we still have to conquer five-sixths of the earth's land in order for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to be"... It is clearly seen that the name of the state does not even contain a hint of either national or territorial affiliation. And the goal of this state was quite clearly expressed in the Declaration on its formation, namely: "... it will serve as a faithful bulwark against world capitalism and a new decisive step towards the unification of the working people of all countries in the world Socialist Soviet Republic"... The slogan of the USSR was the appeal: "Workers of all countries, unite!", And the anthem until 1943 was "Internationale".

This is how the country appeared, which will soon be called the USSR, and in which everything leading positions have always belonged to Jews, some of whom were accomplices of a comrade Trotsky (Trotskyists were mostly Jews sephardim), and some were accomplices of a friend Stalin (they were mostly Jews ashkenazi). In order to obtain documentary evidence of who actually led the Union, I recommend reading the wonderful book by Andrey Dikiy "Jews in Russia and the USSR."

What was wrong in the USSR?

Trotsky's Sephardim were constantly at war with Stalin's Ashkenazi. It was an old war that levites managed to arrange in order to be able to somehow manage their hyperactive fellow tribesmen. And although in 1937 Comrade Stalin slightly thinned the ranks of the Trotskyists, this struggle has not subsided to this day and has a decisive influence on most of the events taking place in Russia. We need to understand well that the USSR created by Jews NOT for russians, but for yourself. In addition, it must be remembered that the Sephardi Trotskyists are still performing the task of total annihilation on the planet. And the Ashkenazim do not interfere with this, but only try to make sure that there are enough slaves for them in Russia. Those. in fact, the Russian people are hostile and trotskyists (Sephardim), and stalinists (Ashkenazi). But the former want to destroy the Rus completely, and the latter agree to leave a little Rus in their service. That's the whole difference between true creators the USSR!

Now we will briefly analyze several specific statements about what and how it was in the USSR, especially since the author lived almost his entire life in and personally observed and was a participant in many things that happened there. Let me remind you that I try to analyze what really happened to us in the USSR, and not what it seems to someone today or what some circles want us to think.

1. Public ownership of the means of production... This is pure water deception (enemy propaganda), because apart from these words, the "general people" never had anything else. There really was such a general phrase in the Constitution, but there was no clarification, what kind of people in the Soviet multinational state it is this owner, and nowhere was it spelled out exactly how this national form of ownership is realized. In reality, none of the people had even the slightest opportunity to dispose of any part of the public property, which means that in fact he was not its owner or co-owner! KPSS just powdered their brains semi-literate population, masking the fact that the real owner of Russia was, which had long lived under communism, even during the war. So, there was no "public property" in the USSR for anything, and Nikolai Levashov quite rightly wrote that "Socialism is state capitalism, plus the slave system!"

4. Free housing... And this is a shining example of communist ingenuity and Jewish shamelessness! If in the West, almost the entire population has long been buying housing, cars and much more on credit (there are big problems with local credit, because 200-300% is paid for the loan), then in the USSR it was done the opposite is true! The workers received supposedly free housing, but after standing in line for 15-20 years, and in fact paying forward the cost of housing, education, and honey. service, and everything else "free" by their hard work throughout life. So tricky "Free of charge" was in the USSR. And so much was shown and written about the quality of the housing under construction that only the blind, deaf and dumb did not know about it. By the way, today housing is being built in almost the same way as it used to be in the Soviet Union. And not because they do not know how, but because they deliberately deceive apartment buyers, trying to save money wherever possible and impossible, starting with the thickness of the walls, and ending with the lack of ventilation, central heating, inferior windows and doors! But the prices for this shame are set as if everything is made of pure gold ...

5. The country's governing system was truly democratic... Many people probably remember that the country was called Soviet, i.e. all power was formally concentrated in all possible advice, ranging from township and rural, and ending with the Supreme Council. This was done so that the official could avoid personal responsibility for the decisions made: they say, the Council decided so, but “bribes are smooth from it”. And the real power was everywhere party organs... A small party god of a regional scale was a real tsar in his domain, but at the same time completely obeyed another god, who was sitting on the floor above; and so on, until the very. So they lived: decisions were made by some, followed by others, and popular discontent, which very often took place in the USSR, was suppressed by others. Reading newspapers with various Resolutions and Decisions, it was impossible to understand anything, as it is today, and only much later the picture began to gradually become clearer ...

6. Real poverty reigned in the USSR! Of course not everywhere! In the Union, in addition to party secretaries and instructors, the workers of numerous Soviets lived well, and, most importantly, the populous caste of trade workers. More or less managers of enterprises and organizations, workers of harmful professions and very few artists and writers could make ends meet. And the bulk of the population (percent 90-95 ) made ends meet with great difficulty. For example, my parents were doctors with higher education. But they were honest and decent people and did not stoop to extorting gifts from the sick, i.e. lived on salary... Therefore, I remember that, although we lived very modestly, for many years my mother could not make ends meet with the family budget and constantly borrowed several rubles from neighbors "Until payday"... And this despite the fact that dad never spent money on, because he did not drink because of a stomach ulcer, which he received as a student. People's salaries were extremely low, and with such a system of remuneration, the population was deliberately lowered both professionally, morally and ethically. In order to live more or less bearable, people were forced to "chew" - to steal, i.e. transgress the Law, become criminals! By this, the Jewish Soviet government, following the precepts, reduced the speed or even completely stopped the evolutionary development of the population, slowly but surely turning it into a large herd of rams (rams).

7. In the USSR, nepotism and protectionism reigned... It was possible to get to any leadership positions only (!) Under patronage. And the position, relatively speaking, is higher than the head of the housing office, it was possible to get only by jewish patronage, which non-Jews could never get in principle. The only exceptions are those cases when it was impossible to do without a goy-specialist, when he had to pull all the work on himself. Basically, all any significant positions were occupied by persons of revolutionary nationality. One of the confirmation of this may well be the following example, which I saw for several years in the main building of the Donetsk Polytechnic Institute, where I happened to study at one time. There, on the long wall near the Rector's office, hung large portraits all former rectors of this once highly respected university. And passing by this gallery hundreds of times, I gradually read almost all the names of the “patriarchs”, which, of course, all turned out to be. Then I did not see anything unusual in this, because we were taught internationalism from the cradle. And now, remembering this small touch of my student life, I also remembered that all the vice-rectors, all deans and all heads of departments at that time were also jews and… communists... And then I noticed that the secretaries of district committees, city committees, regional committees, and chairmen of councils of all levels, and all the rest of the "bosses" were either Jews (in most cases), or representatives semitic peoples (Armenians, Georgians, Chechens and others (more than 30 peoples)).

8. In the USSR, there was complete lawlessness and total. This was inevitable in conditions when all power was concentrated in the hands of party functionaries who did not bear no responsibility for their actions. Therefore, it was not the Law that reigned in the USSR, but the real tyranny of party secretaries and punitive bodies. And the entire population was forced to submit to this evil will. Because, with any disobedience, any person could simply be destroyed, deprived of his job and, accordingly, his livelihood, or imprisoned or in a psychiatric hospital on trumped-up grounds or even without them. Party bosses were afraid of nobody and nothing, because they diligently performed "Party line", which possessed sufficient forces to quickly neutralize any person or organization. You can get some idea of \u200b\u200bthe level of corruption in the USSR from articles and many others.

9. In science, culture and art almost everything was occupied by Jews. Accurate estimates will surely appear someday, but offhand it can be said that about 90% of all leaders in these areas were Jews. One of the documentary evidence of the above is the text of the memorandum of the Agitprop Central Committee of M.A. Suslov "On the selection and placement of personnel in the Academy of Sciences of the USSR" dated October 23, 1950, where by a direct test it is also said that the Academy is sabotaging work in the most important areas ... To clarify the situation with culture, you can read a short article "Russian culture with a Jewish mark". And be sure to read the wonderful books of the real Russian writer Ivan Drozdov, who began his writing career immediately after the Great Patriotic War, and became a victim of the victorious jewish wars for Russian literature.

This is not a complete list of what those people who sincerely regret the collapse of the USSR do not know or have forgotten. As Vladimir Putin recently remarked very aptly and accurately: "Whoever does not regret the collapse of the USSR does not have a heart, and those who want its revival have no head!" But after all, besides the CPSU, there was also the KGB, there was the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there was OBKHSS, there was an Army, in which all leadership positions always occupied by people who defended the interests of the ruling, and not of the Russian people. Let us recall at least in August 2008, organized by the United States and Israel: the military command of Russia did not dare to resist the Zionists! Vladimir Putinbeing at that time the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation (then President D. Medvedev was the Supreme Commander-in-Chief), he urgently left the Olympics in China and flew to organize a rebuff to the aggressor! And only then Russia began to fight ... Those who wish can always find themselves a lot of additional and supporting materials on the Web and make sure that there was really slave state, only slavery was organized not as shown in the movies - with chains and shackles, but in a modern way, when slaves consider themselves free people and work independently for the slave owner! ..

Who destroyed the USSR and how?

The USSR was a creation of the Jewish financial mafia, very well performed its functions of keeping a huge country in slavery, and, of course, no one was going to destroy him! The imitation of the confrontation between the "two systems" was necessary to divide the peoples of the planet and instill hatred among the peoples of the whole world towards the Russians, whom the Jews presented as creators. And, of course, neither the Sephardim, led by the Rockefeller family, nor the Ashkenazim, led by the Rothschilds, nor the Levites, nor other clans of a higher level. had no plans to destroy the "socialist system", with the help of which a good half of the white race of the planet was kept in slavery ...

Probably, they will argue for more than one decade, and maybe more than one century. If in the first years after the collapse of everything Soviet, many tried to get rid of everything as quickly as possible, then recently there has been an almost opposite trend. Those who were dear to the Soviet Union are trying to preserve what is left of it. For example, yard dominoes or dovecotes. How they lived in a country that no longer exists, recalled the correspondent of the TV channel "MIR 24" Rodion Marinichev.

For a penny, collectors today are ready to give more than one thousand rubles. Although a quarter of a century ago it was an ordinary means of payment. The Soviet ruble is one of the main monuments to a country that no longer exists. Many people still remember the prices by heart, because they have not changed for decades. “The fare was 20 kopecks, and Prima cigarettes were 14 kopecks. Lunch cost fifty kopecks, and you still had 20-30 kopecks left for the cinema, ”recalls Vladimir Kazakov, an expert on numismatics of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

The average salary in the USSR during the "developed socialism" is 130 rubles. Those who tried to save kept their money in money boxes, books, underwear, and only then, closer to the 1970s, people began to use savings books more and more often.

In the film "Love and Doves" the Soviet way of life and way of life is shown so truthfully that they often say about this picture: this is how it was in the USSR. The main character Vasily Kuzyakin, by the way, written off from a real person, has the most popular hobby: pigeons.

The country began to get involved in breeding pigeons soon after the Great Patriotic War. The dove is, as you know, a symbol of peace. The hobby turned out to be so serious that dovecotes began to appear in almost every yard. Small dovecote houses were even built according to standard designs. The most avid pigeon lovers built real mansions for them.

In the sleeping Moscow district of Nagatino, Uncle Kolya's exemplary dovecote is almost exotic today. He started construction back in the 1970s, when he returned from the army. He says that in his youth it was not a pity to save money for these birds. If you don't have lunch a couple of times, you will buy a dove. And then you will also compete with the neighboring yard: whose pigeons are more agile. “Earlier, if I saw that the parties were flying, then that’s all, we have to raise our own, otherwise someone else is flying! And all Nagatino is in pigeons, ”Nikolai recalls.

There were enough yard hobbies in the USSR. There was also chess, backgammon and dominoes. Today's knuckle-lovers treat their hobby as a professional sport. Even a special table, such championships are held. In the USSR, Alexander recalls, everything was much simpler. The playing field could be someone's briefcase, a box, or just a piece of plywood. “We played on benches in parks,” says Alexander Terentyev, executive director of the Russian Federation of Dominoes.

Patriarch's Ponds were once a favorite place for dominators, like most of the city's parks. Domino entered life so firmly that they sat down for him at any free moment. For example, at lunchtime. “During working hours, we met, people came from other workshops,” says the 2015 Russian domino champion Alexander Vinogradov.

I had to spend a lot of time in someone's company and involuntarily. Indeed, in the middle of the last century, more than half of the country's population lived in communal apartments. It was sometimes difficult to establish a common life. The writer Vladimir Berezin recalls: as a child, he almost never washed in the apartment.

“Two families lived in a small two-room apartment. The housekeeper of the second family slept on the planks in the bathroom. I came across a bathing culture that united people of completely different social origins, ”says Berezin.

For most Soviet citizens, it is almost a second home. At least until the end of the 1960s - the era of the Khrushchevs and, albeit small, but separate apartments with all the amenities. Many went to the baths with their gangs and soap. Under the steam in the same company, a worker and a doctor of sciences often met.

The bathhouse attendant with 30 years of experience, Takhir Yanov, remembers well the long lines to the famous Sanduny. Everything has been preserved there since those times. Lovers of the first pair even now come before dawn, as in the Soviet era.

Queues are a special Soviet phenomenon. They arose in the 1920s, then became longer, sometimes shorter, then longer again.

According to the State Statistics Committee of the USSR for 1985, men spent about 16 minutes on workdays to buy goods or receive services, women - 46. On weekends, even more: men - almost an hour (58 minutes), women - 1.5 (85 minutes). We got to know each other in the queues, decided matters, and sometimes even fell in love and dispersed.

“There was a couple in front of me: a guy and a girl. They made such a declaration of love that I even got tired of listening. Finally it was their turn. There they gave something as little as a kilogram or a piece. The girl took over, and the young man took over. And she says: "Bunny, give me money." He could afford it, and it turned out that he had forgotten the money in the hostel! And this Bunny immediately turned into a "bastard", - recalls the singer Lyubov Uspenskaya.

Singer Lyubov Uspenskaya remembers both childhood hunger years and the Soviet word "blat". She managed to plunge into abundance only in the 1970s, when she left for the West. But, in the end, I realized: I never experienced such joy as in the Soviet Union.

“For the New Year, you will get a Christmas tree, some kind of no, the simplest and most ugly, and what a joy it was to decorate it. And now we do it like a machine, ”says the singer.

A swift farewell to Soviet life began in the 1990s, but many have not broken with it until now. Today it is something like an exotic that not everyone wants to lose.

Instructions

The "period of developed socialism", as the era of stagnation in the USSR was officially called, was not as carefree as many now think. Very low wages for the majority of the population and a shortage of high-quality consumer goods and foodstuffs added a very large fly in the ointment to the socialist barrel of honey.

And yet there were many positive sides to life in those years. First of all, life during the stagnant years was very calm. There was no crime. That is, not that she was completely absent, but the press preferred to keep silent about her. Crime in the USSR, according to party ideologists, was considered a relic of the capitalist vulgarity. And many Soviet people readily believed in this. Indeed, it was almost safe on the city streets, and cases of bloody maniacs and other murderers were carefully hidden from society. For the same reason, there were "no" man-made disasters in the USSR either.

Medical care in the Soviet Union was absolutely free and medicines were very expensive. But buying good, especially imported drugs, was very problematic.

The Soviet education system was considered one of the best in the world. It was also free. But in order to enroll in a prestigious university, Soviet applicants had to either have high-ranking parents or give considerable bribes. And in the Central Asian republics, the system of bribes existed in almost all universities and was almost legalized.

Free public housing prevailed in the USSR. However, there were also cooperative and private housing. Every Soviet citizen in need of better living conditions had the right to get an apartment free of charge. Another thing is that for this it was necessary to defend a long-term queue. Sometimes her term reached two decades. People who wanted to speed up this process joined housing cooperatives. But in order to build a cooperative apartment, it was necessary to pay for it several annual earnings of a simple engineer or teacher.

The provision of food to the population in the Soviet Union was extremely uneven. The richest in terms of food were the cities of Moscow and Leningrad. A Moscow grocery store in stagnant years was considered good if fresh meat and poultry, 2-3 varieties of boiled sausage, a couple of varieties of freshly frozen fish, butter, sour cream, eggs, chocolates, beer and oranges were present on its counters. But in many stores, even in Moscow, products in such an assortment were available only at certain times of the day and not every day. In the Russian hinterland, the food situation was much worse: meat on coupons, sausage on holidays. But on the other hand, almost all of the products were of high quality and very cheap.

Domestic manufactured goods were of extremely poor quality. Therefore, imports were held in high esteem. Imported things cost, often insanely expensive, but still were in crazy demand.

Soviet ideologists, proving the superiority of the socialist system over the capitalist, constantly emphasized that in the West money decides everything, while in the USSR there are other, much greater human values. Indeed, money for the Soviet people was nothing compared to pull. The presence of useful connections, for example, in the spheres of trade and catering, opened up real access to socialist benefits.