Children of the Soviet Union ... How much goodness and beauty in this phrase, sad and tragic, tender and painfully dear ... As soon as you close your eyes, memories will flow like a river ...
If you were a kid in the 50s, 60s, 70s or 80s, in hindsight, it's hard to believe how we even managed to survive to this day.
As a child, we drove cars without belts and airbags. Riding a horse-drawn cart on a warm summer day was an incredible pleasure. Our cribs have been painted with bright, lead-rich paints.
There were no secret lids on medicine bottles, doors were often left unlocked, and cupboards were never locked. We drank water from a column on the corner, not from plastic bottles. It never occurred to anyone to ride a bike in a helmet. Horror!
For hours we made carts and scooters from boards and bearings from the landfill, and when we first rushed down the mountain, we remembered that we had forgotten to attach the brakes.
After we drove into the thorny bushes several times, we dealt with this problem. We left the house in the morning and played all day, returning when the street lights were on, where they were.
All day no one could find out where we were. There were no mobile phones! It is hard to imagine. We cut arms and legs, broke bones and knocked out teeth, and no one sued anyone.
Anything happened. Only we and no one else were to blame. Remember? We fought until we bloody and walked around with bruises, getting used to not paying attention to it.
We ate cakes, ice cream, drank lemonade, but no one got fat from it, because we ran and played all the time. Several people drank from the same bottle, and no one died from this. We did not have game consoles, computers, 165 satellite TV channels, CDs, cell phones, the Internet, we rushed to watch the cartoon with the whole crowd to the nearest house, because there were no video cameras either!
But we had friends. We left the house and found them. We rode bikes, played matches along spring streams, sat on a bench, on a fence, or in a schoolyard and chatted about what we wanted.
When we needed someone, we knocked on the door, rang the bell, or just walked in and saw them. Remember? Without asking! Yourself! Alone in this cruel and dangerous world! No protection! How did we even survive?
We made up games with sticks and cans, we stole apples from the orchards and ate cherries with seeds, and the seeds did not grow in our belly! Everyone signed up for football, hockey or volleyball at least once, but not all of them got into the team. Those who missed learned how to deal with disappointment.
Some of the students were not as smart as the rest, so they stayed for the second year. The tests and exams were not divided into 10 levels, and the marks included 5 points in theory, and 3 points in reality.
During recess, we poured water on each other from old reusable syringes!
Our actions were our own! We were prepared for the consequences. There was no one to hide behind. There was practically no idea that you could buy off the cops or get rid of the army.
Parents of those years usually took the side of the law, can you imagine ?! This generation has spawned a huge number of people who can take risks, solve problems and create something that did not exist before, simply did not exist. We had freedom of choice, the right to risk and failure, responsibility, and somehow we just learned to use it all. If you are one of this generation, I congratulate you!
We were lucky that our childhood and adolescence ended before the government bought freedom from young people in exchange for rollers, mobile phones, a factory of stars and chips with Coca-Cola ...
We used to do a lot of things that now would never even enter our heads. Moreover, if you do today at least once what you did all the time then, they will not understand you, or they may even take you for a madman.
Well, for example, remember the soda water vending machines? There was also a faceted glass - one for all! Today, no one would even think of drinking from a common glass! And before, after all, everyone drank from these glasses ... A common thing! And after all, no one was afraid of catching any infection ...
By the way, these glasses were used for their business by local drunkards. And, imagine, just imagine it - they returned the glass to its place! Don't believe me? And then - a common thing!
And what about people who hang a sheet on the wall, turn off the lights and mutter something to themselves in the dark? Sect? No, it's a common thing! In the past, every home hosted a ceremony called - hold your breath - filmstrip! Remember this miracle ?! Who has a filmstrip projector running now?
Smoke pours down, acrid smell throughout the apartment. Such a board with letters. What appears to you? Indian great priest Aramonetrigal? In fact, this is you-living. The usual thing! Millions of Soviet children burned postcards for mothers on March 8 - “Mommy, congratulations on International Women's Day. I wish you a peaceful sky over your head, and your son - a bicycle "...
And still everyone was sitting in the bathroom, and on a lowered toilet seat, and in the dark - and there was only a red lantern ... Guess it? The usual thing was to print photographs. Our whole life is in these black and white photographs, printed with our own hands, and not by a soulless guy from Kodak ... Well, you remember what a fixer is?
Girls, do you remember the rubber bands? Surprisingly, not a single boy in the world knows the rules of this game!
What about collecting waste paper at school? The question is still tormented - why? And then I took Dad's entire Playboy archive there. And there was nothing for me! Only my mother wondered why my father began to check my homework so meticulously ?!
Yes, we were like that ... Children of the Soviet Union ...
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