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In my recent post about shopping in the USSR the following photo and its caption raised some questions:
Cheese display with names and descriptions of various cheeses. In 1983 a display like this would've looked like an insulting joke.©Time, Carl Mydans
I implied that by the time when I was growing up® no elaborate displays or [...]
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When I was growing up© , the original political and ideological reasons for organizing preschools in the USSR were long gone and kindergartens became what they are in the rest of the world – places to drop off children while adults work. Soviet kindergartens had various quality levels – some were owned by money-rich companies [...]