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Back in the USSR: the liked to include the Soviet people. Photo

Назад в СССР: чем любили развлекаться советские люди. ФотоThe Soviet Constitution gave people the “right to work” and “right to rest”

The Soviet Constitution gave people the “right to work” and “right to rest”. For the avoidance of labour was followed by severe punishment. A “right to relaxation” provided “by the provision of a wide network of sanatoria, rest homes and clubs.”

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Evening in the yard

The yards is a significant phenomenon of Soviet culture. In the courts, somebody always was. In the morning and afternoon – grandmother on the bench and kids in the sandbox. Night life is in full swing at the table, around which sat the lovers of dominoes, cards and chess.

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Dominoes were played exclusively by men. Often going four pair by pair. And then sounded the cry of “Fish!” – so ended the game.

Domino was considered a game for pensioners and workers. Intellectuals liked to gather in the parks playing chess and checkers, and the youth and middle-aged men were not averse to spread the cards.

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If allowed, the dimensions of the yard in the winter came the rats and boys and their fathers, poured on the ice. To drive players to the apartments was not until just before dark, no matter how mother screamed from the window: “go Home!”.

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On summer evenings the shops and dominoni the tables were occupied by people who could – played guitar, the other sang, listened, talked among themselves. In Soviet times, was born a whole genre of the yard songs: sometimes naive, sometimes deliberately ironic.

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Happy owners of cars and wanted to meet them going on the weekends “in the garage”: there is not only repaired their vehicles, but also drinking beer, discussing the news.

Whole family to the amusement Park and circus!

Weekend, many Soviet children were waiting with a special feeling: often on Saturday or Sunday the whole family went to the Park of culture and rest, the zoo or the circus.

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Parks of culture and rest was invented in 1928, when the Soviet government realized that the leisure of workers is a matter of national importance. In August 1928 the first Park was opened not far from the Neskuchny garden in Moscow. It had playgrounds, amusement rides, tennis courts and even a swimming pool. Soon these parks began opening across the country.

In the parks on dates, went dancing, the kids were on the swings and the roundabouts. The price of pleasure was affordable for any average parent is from 5 to 15 cents. After the rides you can drink soda from the machine (with syrup – 3 pennies), pie, ice cream (10-25 cents) or cotton candy.

In the parks put on concerts, in winter they flooded the ice rinks and open skate hires.

Parks of culture and rest was in almost every city in the Soviet Union. But to go with the family to the circus or the zoo could afford only residents of big cities.

The Soviet circus and successfully toured abroad, he was one of the “brands” of the Soviet Union. Over the years the system of state circuses there were entire dynasties of actors, was built capital buildings, worked out of the program. A ticket for the first row in a good circus was worth about one and a half roubles (in different years price, of course, fluctuated). It wasn’t that cheap – ticket in the sixties cost 5 cents for children and 20 cents for adults.

Go family in one of the Moscow theaters cost from two roubles per adult and from 40-50 cents on the student or the student. But on the good performances tickets “was taken from battle”, often through friends or dealers. In “hamlet” with Vysotsky to go together get up to 50 rubles at the official price several times below.

Soviet dance of the evening: dancing and where?

The dance floor was in almost every Park and near the Palace of culture – an asphalt “patch” with benches along the perimeter and a stage. The ticket cost from 30 cents and up (depending on city). Too “provocative” dressed youth were selected at the entrance – it could not start in jeans or mini-skirts. Not frowned upon at the dance squeals and screams.

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Near always on duty police officers or vigilantes, so drunken or thirsty fighting companions quickly “took”, and instead of dancing they were in for a detox or a night at the office. And the next day the proceedings in the University or at work.

The music was mostly “live” – local band was playing all the familiar hits or songs. Popular songs about love, for example, VIA “Singing guitars” or “Jolly fellows”. Sang even the Beatles, often in Russian. Out of competition immediately after the appearance in the USSR was the song “Venus”, she is the famous “Shizgara”.

Know how to dance, so the dances were divided into slow (steps from foot to foot under slow music), and “fast” (there was dancing in his own way: copied the movements from the movies, improvised, combined elements of rock-n-roll and twist).

Weekend at the cottage: “six hundred” – the happiness of the Soviet person

To solve the food problem, under Khrushchev families began to issue areas the size of six acres. It was assumed that this amount of land is enough to a family of 4 supplied with vegetables and fruit. And it was the maximum size of “wear”, many families are not getting any such. The houses on these cottages were small, frequently – frame, suitable for living in summer. To build a two-story house was forbidden.

To the garden went with the whole family: children companies ran at a holiday village, the adults did another repair house, anything built or doing garden work. Cottages raised everything from potatoes to pumpkins. If the terrain allowed, there were mushrooms, berries, fishing. Some were at the cottage and bath.

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On vacation – camping trip!

If there was a house or just a soul demanded adventures, we could go Hiking. Professional “hikers” were United in the clubs, the fans were going to companies and been out for a few days in the forest or mountains. Hiking was a favorite pastime of youth: often, the company were chosen so that everything in it was “couples”. Bought chipped food – canned meat, cereals, packet soups, tea. Many took with them some alcohol.

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An essential attribute of the hikers had a guitar – no evening campfire is not complete without her. In the campaigns of the young men put up the tent, girls used to cook food.

Often special hikers took and children. But the kids went Hiking and “his” company with a class group of pioneer camps, tourist club. Of course, under adult supervision.

Vacation at sea – the dream of the Soviet worker

Vouchers for “major resorts” of the Soviet Union were cheap: usually a tenth of the pay the citizen himself, and the rest of the Union. In Sochi on the 21 day be able to go for 60 rubles (half the average wage). But to get a coveted ticket to the resort was not so easy.

Flourished a rest “savages”: people rented accommodation from the local (bunk earlier in the day, room – five roubles), had lunch in the canteen or cooking for yourself. In season the owners of the houses were passed all the way up to the hammocks and summer kitchen. And still is to provide housing for all comers worked.

Accustomed to Hiking with tents located on the coast: camping first appeared on the Black sea in the seventies. The owners then drove home fruit drawers – good fruit has always been a deficit.

Назад в СССР: чем любили развлекаться советские люди. Фото
Назад в СССР: чем любили развлекаться советские люди. Фото

Popular destination were the visits to the Baltic sea: the Baltic States was considered a “Soviet Europe”, and the service there differed from “sredneaziatskogo”. Went there not so much to swim, how to breathe the air, walk under the pine trees, walk through the medieval streets of the towns. Moreover, in the Baltic States was more, and from there it was possible to bring fashionable clothes and shoes, equipment, even chewing gum.

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