Macdonalds
Quite recently, we could celebrate an interesting event – 35 years since the opening of the first McDonald’s restaurant in Russia. This event at...
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Rocking chairs in the USSR: underground temples of iron and spirit
1. History of bans and underground activities In 1973, the USSR State Sports Committee officially banned bodybuilding, calling it “narcissism” and “alien to Soviet...
Radio Magazine
“Radio Magazine” was founded in 1924 and became the first technical magazine in the USSR devoted to radio communications and broadcasting. Its pages published...
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union following World War II (1947–1991). During this period,...
Pioneers
The Pioneers were members of the Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union, a socialist organization for children aged 9 to 14 from 1922 to...
Legendary tape recorder Legend
There were quite a few similar tape recorders in the USSR. But this was the one I had. And no one bought it for...
Audio equipment made in USSR
Once, as a child, I went to the Melodiya store to look at all the musical equipment on sale. Melodiya is a record store...
Shortage in the USSR
In the USSR, shortages were particularly noticeable in the period from the 1970s to the 1980s. This was caused by possibly ineffective economic planning....