So, friends — today will be it is interesting topic, about which I have long wanted to write a post — carpets on the walls, which unfortunately are still quite popular thing in our latitudes. Fashion wall hangings appeared in the Soviet Union — there the carpet was a measure …
Read More »Whether your favorite Soviet toys – a copy of the foreign originals?
In walks the Internet information that supposedly our favorite Soviet toy guns, cars, trains and helicopter – in fact, were copies of foreign toys, or were created on their basis. What do you say, no smells? I think our gun-disconet was in the 70’s.
Read More »“The Soviet sausage seemed wonderful because of the shortage”. A report from the slaughterhouse
The culinary history of the Grodno meat-packing plant lasts for a century. The company daily produces 100 tons of sausages, and 25 tons of semi-finished products, but not the only one. We learned how doing here ham on Italian recipe. Butchers small Hrodna slaughterhouse would be surprised, seeing as 107 …
Read More »The Kremlin is not surprised by the interest of Russians to the Soviet past Putin
In the Kremlin expect a high interest of Russians to the facts and documents connected with the past of Russian President Vladimir Putin. So the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov has answered the question TASS about the appearance in the exposition of the Central state archive of historico-political …
Read More »Barabashka and miserable Soviet “otherworldly”
So, friends — today will be a very interesting and long-planned my post on “barabashek” and other wretched Soviet “otherworldly” — information about which began to appear EN masse on television and in the press in the last Soviet years. I think you all remember the epidemic of the …
Read More »Forgave the debts of the Soviet, but Russian run
With regards to the statements about the fact that “Africa is rich in natural resources, there is poor infrastructure and great prospects in its construction, there is a need for new aircraft, construction machinery, geological exploration and subsequent exploitation of deposits” — in General, all the arguments of the opponents …
Read More »The horrors of the Soviet Union on the forbidden paintings
So, friends, today will be an interesting post about the incredibly cool work of artist Vasily Shulzhenko, which in a grotesque manner depicted life in the USSR — mostly in the sixtieth-the eightieth years. I think you have seen these pictures on the Internet, but most likely knew nothing about …
Read More »Fakes and myths about “Soviet abundance”
about “Soviet abundance.” So, friends, today will be a post on one of the most popular topics in my blog — about the Soviet trade, but rather about the fakes of her that spread fans of the Soviet Union, trying to give them at face value. These photos-fakes are …
Read More »Compare Soviet and modern salaries
Friends, here is a very interesting question — when an ordinary citizen could afford to buy more goods now or in the USSR? The question is not idle, because in many forums and blogs, fans of the Union claim that the USSR had lived completely rich with high wages, which …
Read More »Ashes and ruins. What remained after the Soviet Union
In 1991 broke up the USSR, and the beginning of the nineties was a transitional period from the Soviet system to normal economic relations. My feeling is the period of transition lasted until the late nineties, and in the time it surfaced all the problems that scoop were suppressed. You …
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