Although the USSR’s past is contentious, benefits and drawbacks have existed throughout human history. The majority of people in the Soviet Union were content.

A soft drink could be purchased for three cents.

Minsk, 1980.

A boy and his father are purchasing milk. Novokuznetsk, 1983, in a wait for dairy. Moscow in the 1990s.

The boys are seeing a man working on his automobile.

Winter celebrations.

Bubbles are nostalgic memories of childhood joy.

1976: school in the country.

Teens socialise with one another.

The best-tasting water!

Winter.

Soviet ice cream is very delicious.

Indeed, the ice cream tasted great at that time, and what’s more, it was naturally made.

For schoolgirls in the Soviet Union, “Erasers” was the most played game!

It’s a garden “gang” here. Most likely, they’re choosing what to play.

Purchased with a signature! Purchasing a monochrome or, with luck, colour television was regarded as a genuine achievement.

typical small-town store.

Trade on the street: the cabbage was “thrown out” that day by the vegetable base.

On their lunch break, milkmaids at the farm discuss the latest news from their working day.

People in big cities received manicure services from manicurists.

Kindergarten. There is replenishment in the nursery group: the child is in capable hands, and his mother can leave for work without risk.

Young pioneers enjoying lunch at the pioneer camp.

telephones on the street. Telephone booths were located on the streets of large cities during the Soviet era. Only the post offices in the villages could afford such luxury.

Genuine curiosity was piqued by an actual foreign car on the street in one of the Soviet cities.

“May, labour, peace.” A procession in the Ukrainian SSR’s capital city of Kiev.