The Soviet Lookbok
This is the example of what Soviet Russian citizens could order by mail from their state - the only vendor in the country. It’s no surprise that literary EVERY house in the country had something from those items.
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So… Soviet Homes were furnished a lot like my great grandmother’s house?
Such a limited choice! Poor Russians!
Look @ yours indians too. So nostalgic. I think it was a nice time for childhood.
P.s. Miss India - firstly shave your boobs and ask your girlfriends to do the same.
Miss India look @ yours indians firstly !!!
It was a such great time for childhood. So nostalgic.
P.S. Miss India, firstly shave yours boobs and ask yours girlfriends to do the same. And roverty in India is biggest in Asia.
Don’t forget it was 1983 - 25 years ego! Today you can’t find all of this items anywhere. It is wery big difference between Soviet Union and Russia today!
The design looks similar to the European style of the late 60’s, early 70’s, the time of my own childhood. Only the building quality looks somewhat less sturdy but it is still quite a familiar set of objects.
How reliable and easy to use these every day items,produced by peoples government.every soviet citizen was right to watch and see these luxuries.what are the basic needs of common man?vodka and red book of collective works of v i Lenin.even soviet toys were the best in the whole world.like sickles,hammers,chisels,spades,farm machineries and the members of the supreme soviets . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .
You’re fucking baboon shut your stupid mouth
Reliable, trustworthy ? No.
Since there was no quality control other than the State’s own control things often went wrong. Cadmium colored plastics were used for toys and kitchen utensils i.e. These are poisonous, but where could one complain ? Plus the effect was only noticable in the long run. The Soviet state was not really caring about it’s citizens. The arrogance of power, people were again reduced to 19th century serfs. They had no voice. (And still don’t, or are too afraid to speak up)
And indeed, the aesthetics of Soviet ‘culture’ stopped developing in the 50’s. Many westerners do not realize that i.e. ‘The 60’s’ never happened in the USSR. Youth culture, pop music, rock ‘n roll was hardly known and considered decadent. Household names all over the world, like Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, you name it, unheard of in the USSR.
In many aspects Russians (the generations over 30 years old) are still 50 years behind the rest of the world.
Ya, commies were prohibiting Internet in CCCP.
60s happened in USSR during 70s, but style still existing in US disappeared completely in late 80s as backwarding.
Old soviet goods were really reliable before Gorbachev time. 30 years old refrigerators, TVs and washing machines might be obsolete, but still working. My wife as a child in Russia used to repair 25 years old lamp TV herself.
People in USSR used to be much more independent from media propaganda than you can imagine, but they had no voice in massmedia. Look at mordern russian internet and compare it with western.
Are you Russian?
I’m jealous about all this soviet things
Just to inform you all that the 2nd image is GAY - because the balls touch!
they do have plastic ak47 but they are made in china
And LiraNuna, You are an immature sack of filth
These playthings look very lovely, like they were crafted with a lot of heart and time for the children to be happy. Not like modern toys who are loveless products of some marketing plan in order to gain the best profit!
auch! : (
i’ll order a plastic ak47
I wish you would enlarge the text portions of those catalogs so we could read the advertising copy (or at least try to read it).
Quite frankly, I do not think some of these items were readily available from the catalog. I remember back in the 80’s, my grandfather had to go to some trouble to find a tricycle for my younger brother. I do remember the ping-pong gun, it was cool.
Wringer washers? When was the last time you could order one in the americas?
He’s being ironic, you obnoxious idiot. Go back to your third grade teacher–if you got that far–and ask her what “ironic” means. Then go wash yours out with soap.
Someone has asked me whether the shown collection of goods is exaustive
at least was not made in China and at that time products could live for ever!
Don’t look that much different to the stuff that I saw back in the 70’s in UK. Except the wringer - that’s 50’s stuff in Bonnie Scotland (for most people).
Question is - was it in stock? and how long would it take for my exciting wooden castle to arrive?
1 word,
kalgotki
Can anyone guess what “lookbok” in title means?
The sofa is great!
I assume they mean “Look Book”. A catalog of things to wish for.
Heh.. lol @ plastic ak47 manufacture.
What gets to me is that the chinese, boasting their “achievements” in everyone’s face - how many people do actually realize that ALL their construction blueprints, ALL the military tech, ALL pretty much modern everything <- came from pre-Khruschev USSR? Where I live people don’t seem to know crap about it, and just persist with the confused stares/drooling/ etc.
they export all the crap and keep all the good stuff.
China is modern enough, they buy weapons from russia and stuff. The only Stalinist state left in the world is north korea.
Remember the chinese fake spacwalk video?
I am not one of these dochebags that screams that everything is a fake and photoshop, but even i clearly realized that its fake (the biggest giveaway is, the earth in the background does not move at all for the whole 5 minutes of the video)
I was very surprized, i thought Chinese could at least make a real looking fake video. I cant believe that it was even appproved by whoever was in charge of the thing.
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I will take that red/yellow AK
Russia has changed a lot.While I was walking through the brand new fancy ultra modern Ikea Mega Mall in ekaterinburg seeing english words on the storefronts it was like I was back in america.They have almost everything we have.The food court was all in russian,Mcdonalds,KFC.And you could purchase a vehicle across the street at the Ford dealership.
The world has not to be just like US to be interesting or cool, open up your horizons
Man, I remember making smoke bombs from those celluloid rulers
you are try to prove the dirty old “myth” about the soviet system,soviet achievements in tech and soviet peaceful society.before the Gorbachev,soviets were at the peak of their whole history! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !.food items,communication,education,health services and even the right to speak about the CPSU! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !.one can`t deny the soviet superiority in the field of science and tech,over his western and US counterpart.let wide open your eyes and speak truth! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! .
it is very true that Russia back on the road to a world power and the domination!!!!!! Nashi it conducts people it will show way to rewarding corruption and profitable fraud!!! That old Russia could emerge. Again!!!!! And be strongful and power!! !! The AK-$& will not plastic be but STEEL!!!!and spit the bullet in your U ASS head! ! ! !we will rule.AGAIN!!!!!
Gee… bitter much?
North Korea is even MORE progressive. To avoid long lines at food stores, they allow you to order your food by Internet.
Then they deliver it by television.
yes, i agree. i also wish i could read the language so the prices would make sense to me. very interesting that in 1983 the mangle was still in regular use! wow.
It seems as if alot of these products, though not as varied as some other places, seem similer to things I have seen here (U.S.)in the past.
Хотя у советской бытовой техники и были проблемы с дизайном, но свои функции выполняли вполне достойно для своего времени ( у меня дома до сих пор стоит такая же стиральная машинка как на левой фотке, и работает до сих пор) и были разработаны, произведены советскими людьми на своей же территории. Сейчас же куда ни глянь один импорт, даже телевизоры наших марок сделаны из азиатских деталей- позорище.
nice! I remember all these things I had most of them =)
Let us remind you who saved youк ass in the World WAR II)) Do not blame us for this and look in your countries in the 1960s))) most of the billionaires in the world are Russians)) You are depending on us, as we are mostly selling you Gas, Oil and etc))) Moscow in one of the richest and most developing cities in the world) We were the first who go to space)))
And look at where you are now.
A very unhealthy, unbalanced and corrupted society, extreme differences between the rich and the poor. If you leave the metro station you have to elbow through many old babushka’s, begging for a few coins… The majority of Russians cannot even shop in those fancy new supermarkets because they only make a few hundred dollars p/month. 12 % are living of less than 5 dollars p/day.
Moscow is good at showing off, taking the Las Vegas approach.
Where is the class, the style, I only see tasteless ‘bling bling’, in other words the dream of a proletarian, a peasant: LOOK!! I am better than you!!! Why ? My car is BIGGER,my house is the BIGGEST, my wife is YOUNGER and PRETTIER and you are just SHIT!! You are a LOSER because you have less money!!! I come first and I shit on your head!!! Me me me!!!
That is the sad reality in Moscow and the backdrop to its emerging wealth.
Moscow?
Sorry, I thought you were talking about New York, or London, or Paris, or another place in the ‘developed’ world where obesity is a national issue, we struggle to deal with unemployment, strive for affluence and fail to accept that we ourselves in the West (this is presuming you are western) are the even sadder backdrop to the type of socio-ecconomic(sp?) crisis that we’re facing now with this global recession!
Has it become a case where the rich have become so rich that the poor literally have no money to filter upwards?
Of course not because thats not the way it quite works, however we cannot dismiss the predictions of those social scietists, those philosophisers and those economists before us, for whom many of which saw the short-falls of unrestricted, uncapped global capitalism; capitalism has its boundaries, and they are defined by the same constraints which define the extents to which we as people can live harmonoisly as a majority.
If, then, you consider that global, free-market capitalism is — as was once fuedalism — but another step on the road to something better for humanity as a whole, then you can begin to understand that which had been blatently obvious for the past few thousand years; different parts of the world develop at different times, however, the vast majority seem to go through verisimilar stages along their development.
As such, do not be surprised to see polarised, near-exaggerated examples of recently emerging centres of social change. Much like the digital revolution, its not usually long before somewhere like Japan does it better…
Finally, consider simple economics as an answer to your statements about the wealth of the average Russian, and your statistic that 12% live on less than $5 a day; because one can afford to shop in Waitrose (premium UK supermarket) does not mean one will forgoe the appeals of Asda. Nor does it mean that those who shop in Tesco’s dream of Marks and Spencers. It’s a matter of preference, of choice; where you shop does not denote how you stand ’socially’ and if it does, then we are all either playing into what you call the ‘dream of a proleterian’ and attempting to punch above our weight or in fact the opposite of that and attempting somehow in vain to cover our more affluent lifestyles in a bid to stay ‘normal’.
Of course, I’m sure you’ll find that most of us will shop wherevers closest, and cheapest ;o)
I also remember many of the things.
I am guessing it is a booklet to showcase what the factories are producing and you definitely did not order from there. The small print also seems to be about descriptions and specifications.
Each house had them because nothing different was produced anyway.
The washing mashines were used up until the 90s i think. At least my generation (born in the late 80s) was brought up when there were neihter automated washing machines or disposable diapers… sucked for our mothers.
Soon it will be necessary for the russian federation and the united states to work together!Russia is beond that catalog and the ruble is more than the dollar.The united states is still a world power.There are still many nuclear warheads to launch at each other.I would not want to send Tatiana (my russian wife)back to russia because we could not work together!!!!
I had the same bicycle as the first one called “MISHKA”. Nostalgy fuck
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i had that red & yellow AK-47!!!!
wow, memories from childhood
Wow, for 1983, those washing machines are retro, that style went out of fashion in the 50s.