…and we are back on air after our short break! Sorry it was unan­nounced, but very much needed  —  and we are delighted to recon­nect with you again. We’ve got lots of great stuff com­ing  —  from kids sum­mer camps through to some amaz­ing ama­teur pho­tog­ra­phy as well as we shall look at each decade in detail  —  what 1940s, 1950s, […]

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Mil­i­tary Dis­charge Hand­made Scrap Book and Comics Album
The com­pul­sory two years of mil­i­tary ser­vice was a rite of pas­sage for every Soviet guy. When one turned eigh­teen  —  unless for sick­ness or injury  —  it was time to be called in for the mil­i­tary life  —  two years in the bar­racks. The guys usu­ally bonded well and dur­ing their spare time […]

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In the USSR, the very first ice cream fac­tory was opened in 1932  —  when the Min­is­ter of Food Sup­ply (if trans­lated not too lib­er­ally) Anas­tas Mikoyan vis­ited the United States of Amer­ica and was so impressed with their ice cream, he decided that Rus­sia needed some­thing of the kind. So the ice cream mak­ing tech­nol­ogy and […]

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If we were to pick one  the most con­fus­ing ques­tion from the his­tory of the USSR, no doubt it would have to be the Christ­mas date issue. Despite the fact that the Russ­ian Ortho­dox Church branches out of the Chris­t­ian com­mu­nity, the tra­di­tional day to observe Christ­mas is dif­fer­ent to the rest of the Christian […]

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As you remem­ber from the pre­vi­ous post, at the age of 9 the Soviet Kids grew out of their Octo­ber Kids affil­i­a­tion. The next ide­o­log­i­cal rite of pas­sage was pio­neer­ing which the Soviet coun­try placed a huge impor­tance on. Loosely based on the Amer­i­can Boy Scout’s move­ment, pio­neer­ing cov­ered all kids till the age of […]

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1953 was the last year of long and ter­ri­fy­ing gov­ern­ing of Stalin. In Jan­u­ary the huge coun­try although accus­tomed to repres­sions shud­dered from the new hor­ror  –   this time the enemies-saboteurs were Krem­lin doc­tors of a Jew­ish ori­gin. The com­menced per­se­cu­tion also applied to ordi­nary doc­tors.  Soviet peo­ple who believed to the polit­i­cally edited sto­ries broadcast […]

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