25 SOVIET THINGS THAT WERE NOT HEARD ABROAD
The past of each country is unique and unites the people living in it. Maxim Magazine remembered the good Soviet times and collected what arouses pleasant awe and nostalgia in our hearts.
This version of volleyball, simplified for children's sickly bodies, appeared in the 1930s. Let this kind of Soviet children's sport develop basically only a grasping function of the body, but it was tremendously democratic. To play pioneerball could literally everything: boys, girls, fat, dystrophic, mentally retarded and glasses. In pioneerball, there were no stars, because it was not good to play it (you could play very badly, but that's another story). Until now, Russian children in Turkish and Spanish hotels are amazing staff, playing their mysterious game.
That's where they are buried, the roots of national psychology. Only at us turnstiles work by a principle of predatory plants. They lurk in the darkness of the iron boxes, creating an illusion of complete freedom and security. But with any attempt at illegal penetration, their jaws are closed on the body of the offender - in the area of the most vulnerable places. Yes, we are not looking for simple ways. We do not trust him from childhood.
Caramelized concentrated milk lives in foreign supermarkets - in the departments of all ingredients for confectionery. But the taste, appearance and smell is not at all what our dear condensed milk, which you yourself had cooked for three hours in a saucepan, and then scraped off the walls and ceiling. After being slightly distracted to watch the final match of the European Cup.
"Footcloths were, are and will be! "Army General Vladimir Isakov, the chief of the Logistics Logistics, once said in an interview with the press. - Because synthetics for the legs are harmful, especially when you have to run 30 kilometers in tarpaulin boots. A non-synthetic tight socks you need to each soldier by measure to sew, or they will cuckoo and legs to bloody calluses folded. The Russian army tried socks, tried it, not in the Stone Age, we live.
So, the experiments failed. It's all sorts of American marines, who, by helicopters and jeeps, move around strive, they can afford to indulge in socks. " This is the opinion of the army leadership. But one of the useful skills from the army each of us can bring. For girls, for example, the ability to instantly make yourself socks made from two handkerchiefs makes an indelible impression.
Our ancient national superstition says that if all members of a noisy family sit down and leave for a moment before leaving, the trip will be successful. If only because it is at this sacred moment that they can mystically realize that passports have remained on the couch, tickets are in the bathroom, and the child wears skates instead of mittens.
As you know, around each person is full of eared evil spirits who are busy with destroying all dreams. As soon as they hear that someone there wants to buy a horse more favorably, or to give a daughter a successful marriage, then they immediately rush off from all the paws, pick up the price, and spoil the girl-just to foul.Therefore, in all countries, reasonable people, foolishly expressing some of their desire out loud, immediately knocked on the tree: the devil's tree frightens off, which the druids still understood. But now this useful skill other nations podotratili. And we knocked and knocked!
More like an instrument of torture than pleasure, this bundle of branches with withered leaves is a much more original symbol of our country than the French ballet, Chinese kokoshnik or, for example, black caviar, which can be exported by all kinds of Iran and Canada. Many nations have baths. A broom is only with us.
It seems that many birches grow, but for some reason no one thought about how tasty and useful birch sap.Maybe it's all a matter of some kind of gene, only allowing us to feel the subtle taste of sweet plywood, which is so beautiful in childhood?
Yes, and an adult man birch sap is absolutely necessary when a foreigner comes to visit him. Then you can buy a jar of this juice and make the guest taste our national drink, with a kind of pleasure watching the expression of his face at this moment.
Let the sake, the progenitor of kvass, come up in Mesopotamia - today neither in Egypt, nor in Iran kvass in the afternoon with fire you will not find, as well as in any other country of the world. Only here. And those scoundrels who in recent years have been used to sell carbonated drinks "on the basis of kvass", you just need to heat in basins with their products.
The washing machine, which weighs 300 grams, practically does not burst electricity and does not flood its neighbors from the bottom, was born in Tomsk, in the research and production association "Reton". Just put it in a basin with water and dirty laundry, add detergent and rest - I do not want. While you are doing your own business, Retona is engaged in its own: it diligently processes clothes with ultrasonic waves, creates microbubbles that separate dirt from the fibers of the fabric.
Then you will only need to rinse the laundry properly, wash it manually or remove the stains from the bleach and squeeze out the washed clothes thoroughly. Millions of people have already bought this ingenious invention.Yes, by the way, "Kasha from the ax" - this is also a Russian fairy tale.
How we contrived to introduce the rank of the ancient national tradition of eating sunflower seeds, which was brought to us about two hundred years ago, is a mystery. Nevertheless, the plant is so absorbed in our culture that even the trained historians are not-yes, and they are mistaken. For example, in the book of the remarkable writer and historian Boris Akunin "Altyn-Tolobas" we can find a beggar girl who scroungs seeds, not embarrassed that in the year 1682 this exotic flower was just beginning to breed advanced Dutch and French gardeners.
Once it was in many Indo-European languages, but then it degenerated into many. And we carefully preserved it. True, slightly modified. If earlier, when we addressed a person, we expanded the word "e" at the end ("prince", "man"), then in modern Russian, the calling form is, on the contrary, a reduction in the last vowel: Zin, Zin, Listen, Pashk "," Leh, ah, Leh! ".
Europe moved from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in the late 16th century, and Russia - only in the early twentieth. However, the Orthodox Church categorically refused to participate in this disgrace. There was nothing special about this (after all, all the branches of Orthodoxy celebrate Christmas on January 7), but we also had an atheistic revolution that threw out Christmas on the dustbin of history, and the most important holiday of the year was not made by him, but dangling in the neighborhood New Year, having attached to it all the former Christmas attributes such as Christmas trees, burning stars and gifts of the Magi.
As a result, the memory of the people turned out to be a mishmash like salad olivier, and we became owners of unprecedented wealth - as many as three festive weeks beginning with Catholic Christmas and ending with a slightly sad holiday, the Old New Year, the very name of which is from the category of impossible things, but existing ones.
It is not known when a primitive man first figured to connect the tendons of animals so that they form a cellular container, which can be put in your pocket in case you suddenly track down the shortage of sausage on the way from work. But it is known how the name of a bag beloved by Soviet citizens appeared. For the first time it sounded in Raikin's monologue in 1935. "And this is an avoska," said his character, waving the above-mentioned subject in front of the spectator. "Maybe I'll bring something home in it today."
What is more important - a person or a state? Personality or society? A unit or a system? While philosophers are struggling to solve these global issues, they have long been decided by Russian post. Only our address starts from the country, then comes the city, the street, the house and, finally, the combination of letters that you are accustomed to consider as your personal callsign. From the general, so to speak, to particular. In all other countries, you first notify the postal services that you need John Smith, and only then you specify the coordinates of the place where John Smith usually finds himself. But we have a simpler postman!
Coal has an absorbing property and at the same time lowers the acidity of the environment - what the doctor prescribed. So they are treated "from the stomach" to them everywhere. But hypocritically-minded doctors and foreign pharmacists in every possible way disguise the original component, thrust into the coal all kinds of supplements and subjecting it to various metamorphoses (in life you will not guess what this white pill or pink capsule is made from). And only with us honest sellers are packaged in chemist's packaging blackened, most frightening kind of pills, smearing your mouth and fingers. But it helps!
Quiz and competitions on television are more than you can eat. But only two games are our original projects, the scenarios of all the other TV companies were bought from foreign companies. Only two. But the best and the most loved.
Of course, this is all from poverty.