“Great” Soviet Union without pads for women

So, friends — today will be another post about the “charms of life” in the Soviet Union. As you probably already know — fans of the USSR usually like to praise this country, sticking out in the form of achievements there are all sorts of space rockets, which (as I mentioned in yesterday’s post) were not related to the life of 99% of the population — for all time of existence of the USSR cosmonaut team visited a total of 120 people.

I understand why this happens, if you start to talk about other aspects of Soviet life — about life, about medicine, about apartments, about stores — in short, everything that concerns the life of all people — it turns out that the Soviet Union was impoverished and backward country, the standard of living which was somewhere at the level of African countries, and in today’s post I will once again prove it on the example of feminine hygiene.

And what is “Decadent West”?

Let’s first compare how things were in the Decadent West, compared with a shovel. Looking at a photo of a miserable and gray Soviet life, fans of the USSR from time to time cry out — “and at that time it was everywhere!”, “it’s just this time, it was!”, “then all the way live” — sometimes supplementing these cries with the photo of John Lennon in the kitchen at McCartney.

In fact, in developed countries, all household items appeared much earlier than in the USSR — for example, in antebellum America the vacuum cleaner and the refrigerator were quite common things in cities, and television appeared in 1920-e years, while the Soviet citizens already in the fifties from the pages of “the Book about tasty and healthy food” talked about the fridge as some kind of miracle — “a refrigerator is a machine which works with electricity!”. The same applies to feminine hygiene products (baby diapers) — in developed countries they have long been whereas in the USSR and never heard about such things.

The first prototypes of female seals appeared in the United States in 1870-e years, and in 1886 they first went on sale under the name of “Towels Lister”. Strips, similar to modern ones, appeared in 1920-ies and was sold under the name Kotex (a combination of cotton and tissue), and in 1927, the year a well-known company Johnson & Johnson have submitted their pads Modess, which became the main competitor of Kotex. Starts fighting for the consumer and healthy capitalist competition resulting in a market flooded with dozens of factories for the production of women’s goods.

Around 1950 years in the United States and other developed countries sold a line of women’s products — pads, tampons, and stuff like that. Well, in the USSR, that was very sad.

Women’s strip in the USSR.

In response to the cries of fans the scoop in the style of “But we do missiles and blocked the oxygen, and also in the area of the planet we are all one balshoy people” just quietly ask — why is this great Soviet Union could not provide a decent life for its citizens? Baby diapers “great country” and not a baby, exactly the same as feminine sanitary pads, women were forced to endure, to suffer and to grow old before their time.

Feminine sanitary pads and other feminine hygiene in the USSR did not exist. Ladies had to design something like that of gauze and cotton wool — and this is the case, if these things can be bought in the pharmacy, with the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, the shortage of steel, even such simple things. If there were no bandages, as the strips used an old and torn pants or shirts that are cut and sewed. Sometimes, that would “not leaking”, inside I put a piece of cloth or polyethylene. After using all of this were washed and boiled, and then stored out of reach from men and children.

The use of such homemade hygiene products was associated with persistent problems and with an ever-present sense of shame — all that was connected with the issues of women’s health, as it did not exist in public discourse, as it was not, and the woman had to decide all these questions, experiencing a continuing embarrassment. In “critical days” was made to walk with her, which said something like “I’ll go ahead and look if I am okay”.

Sanitary pads and tampons began to appear in the USSR only in the Restructuring, and massively began to be sold only to the early nineties, after the end of the scoop. The funny thing — some crazy fans of the USSR seriously think that “slipping pads” was a kind of “ideological Subversion damned capitalists”:

Afterword.

You can, of course, continue to be proud of missiles and ballet, but I personally think that the standard of living in the country is determined primarily by the quality of life of its citizens, especially women. So, in the USSR, this was all very bad — due to the hard life of a Soviet woman to 30 years has become an aunt, and fifty — a grandmother with false teeth and a bent back. For that alone it was worth the break up of the USSR and the entire Soviet system.

Such cases.

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