Top-ten of soap operas from around the world that were popular in Russia

Which of these do you know?

Village People – banned for VIOLENCE in the USSR

If you thought there was no fun at all in the Soviet Union, this is not true. There were dancing parties and discos and bars (which would not sell alcohol (or at least to the people who were not “initiated”). Yet the music had to be verified by the komsomol committee of the city district (which sold the tickets) and had to be 90% Soviet. And here is when this infamous playlist of the Soviet times comes in.

Back in the WWII USSR: вспоминая советское детство (2)

I’ve already written about the lists of memories Russians make remembering their childhood of the 1970s and early 1980s. They even devote whole communities to memory-digging. Today I wanted to write about the “military” memories of these children.

Back in the USSR: вспоминая советское детство (1)

Russian Blogosphere is replete with lists of things “children from USSR” remember. Over 300 individual memories connect the 1980s Olympics in Moscow, rare foreign travel, children’s games and Soviet reality. All of them are long gone. I decided to put up 15 most easy to explain and see  what picture of the USSR childhood it makes for you. Would you like to try any of those as a kid?