Soviet Kids Book
This funny little book is from Old Soviet times.
What is funny about it that it was printed in 2,400,000 copies! What an edition - the modern Harry Potter is not even close to it in Russia, though Harry Potter is considered to be popular in Russia too.
What this book is about? It’s teaching youngsters about the Revolution, the Communism and the Red Stars of Kremlin.
The price was 0.05 rouble, according to Soviet exchange rate it was around 5 cents. This price was normal for kids books in Soviet Russia.
Everyone in Soviet school wore a star on his uniform.
Here you can clearly see the quantity of the books were printed and its price.
“The Song of October”, Poetry of Soviet Authors. 1984, Right before the great changes of Soviet Russia turning it to a Capitalistic state.
“In November red flags are everywhere - Just look from your window!” It was really so, red flags during November holidays (holidays commemorating October Revolution of 1917 were everywhere).
“Today is October day! All the clouds fly away! Sun likes the holiday too! I have a flag for you!”
“Holiday is everywhere! Look at the trees! There are red leaves, they also celebrate!”
“We’ll watch the firework in the evening!”
“Snow can’t fade my flag!”
“There is no better Motherland than mine and yours with the Red Stars of Kremlin lighting our path to life!”
It has been said by some people that RED coulour and a STAR sign some magical instruments used to control people. Looking through such books one can come to conclusion that this might be true.
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More exactly, it says 2 250 000 copies, not 2 400 000. Though it doesn’t change much…
Saying that red stars are magic used to hypnotize people, have you ever thought that american stars and stripes don’t differ much in function? Symbols control the minds, everywhere.
US stars and stripes?? are you kidding me?? The red star was meant to replace the Cross of Christ. They blew off the crosses on the Kremlin and put that crappy star on it. Get a clue!
I wonder who wrote the book, probably one of those old bags that emigrated to Brighton Beach Brooklyn and now these old communist bags poison our waters.
“And it’s just like our July 4th holiday” are you insane?
During the period that book was written innocent people were going to their deaths and a big chunk of the executioners have fled to Brighton Beach.
Flight to avoid prosecution!!!
I had it
Yeap, but it’s not right that everyone in soviet school had a red star on there clotes. I newere had One.
I want one of these. What’s their availability like?
lol same as american kids are programmed. There is no difference.
Wow that is disgusting. No wonder Russia is so messed up if propaganda like this fed to such small children. And then that great world they believed in was destroyed. How sad and pathetic.
unless you want to get into a long and pointless (endless?) argument, just ignore “La Russophobe”s comments, folks.
seriously.
and I’m not disputing anything she said, as her comment here seems reasonable enough, but watch as she attacks me anyway.
this site is not really the proper forum for long political arguments, I think.
This reads very much like the “4th of July” books I had as a kid. And as far as quality of books - that’s the quality of many children’s books - here in the US too because children outgrow these books. No need to bind them in leather and put gold on the pages.
ILYICH: You’re a wonderfully intelligent human being, the salt of the earth.
I wonder what WOULD be a better location for dialogue between Russians and non-Russians? Can you given example? That would be much more constructive than just saying this isn’t the place, wouldn’t it?
Can you imagine? The people who grew up reading these books are now GOVERNING RUSSIA. The thought is quite terrifying. Maybe today’s young Russians don’t read stuff like this, but they are TAUGHT and ruled over by people who did, and so it goes on forever.
Ha! I’m a non-Russian! Dutch! Watching Knorr commercials!
It seems to me that most Russians who read this book must have felt some cognitive dissonance with the world around them — yes yes, this is what Russia is like in large, but *where I live*…
And I indeed wonder with the Russophobe (what a name) about what this does to a person, to believe in something and later see the whole picture: reality is hard, and so is Russia. Do you firmly stick to what you believed or do you adapt to what you experience? I like to think these books actually make a person wiser, educate them in some way. Perhaps kill their dreams of a makeable world, but give them the idea that things are seldom black and white. That, to me, is progress.
La Russophobe,
You know, what your nickname means? Phobia means FEAR.
This book teaches love for your country. It’s very positive and life-loving. Actually it’s better to read such books rather than some idiotic comics about fake superheroes which is what the western world is consuming. I wonder what they teach their children? That they’ll make everybody in the world “democratic” through brutal force and extermination…? Every country has its own propaganda, I prefer this one.
If la russophobe made books for children, she would write about people being killed, everything bad what’s going on and illustrated them with bloody images. So then children would know all the truth and they would be happy
it’s nomal! There are no honors, murders and other terrible things. Just kindlooking boy and girl. As about so many copies, because RUSSIA IS 1/6 OF THE EARTH SURFACE.
Pls, be logical, dear moderator
“La Russophobe”, a.k.a. Kim Zigfeld (or maybe Zigfield, apparently of Allentown, Pennsylvania), posts her hateful diatribes on just about ANY public internet forum concerning Russia.
All her posts are roughly the same in tone, a mixture of egotism, petty hatred, and unwavering anti-Russian arguments. She often completely misrepresents other’s comments, and not necessarily to prove her own points but rather to belittle her adversaries. Nearly anything regarding Russia, no matter how inane, can be twisted to show “what a pathetic country” it is, or “what an ignorant people” Russians are. She occasionally tries to claim that she cares about Russia’s future, or bemoans Russia’s lack of stature in the world, when at most other times she very publicly wishes for Russia’s demise (hence her blog’s name). Furthermore, she is CONSTANTLY posting her diatribes, to such an extent that some bloggers have suspected “her” of actually being a Putin-hired plant, to drive up positive commentary on Russia as a reaction to her ridiculing (How could anyone have that much spare time? Is this ALL she does?). More likely she is just another ideaologue, albeit with a weird hyper-focus on Russia, and an ego problem that magnifies her contentiousness. Arguing with her is about as intellectually stimulating as playing solitaire: mildly entertaining at
first, but ultimately pointless; responding to her comments only causes the forum to be filled with attacks and counter-attacks.
A dominatrix couldn’t be more spiteful, a schizophrenic couldn’t be more illogical, a child couldn’t be more petty, and a robot couldn’t be more unceasing and monotonous; she has already been banned from several other blogs, and I imagine several more bans will be forthcoming.
(NOTE: feel free to copy-and-paste this into other forums where she posts, so that the sane and rational among us can be appropriately informed.)
Ted!!! What have you done?!! Now you’ve really pissed LR off and she’s gonna come after you! Beware!
La Russophobe, my dear friend, propaganda is everywhere. Even in EU and USA. There are just diffirent objects of propaganda. Its absolutly normal
WOW, who is “ted”? must be one of those guys that banned LR from his own site– nice going buddy! hallelujah! tell it like it is!
@GTI: What is your reaction to totalitarian dictatorship? Giggles?
4EMIST: Why is it that Russians can never defend their actions on their merits, but only by attacking the actions of foreigners?
TED: My, what a wonderful example you set, nothing at all like the person you are complaining about. It’s hard to believe she’s so insignificant, given the number of words you devote to her.
ILYICH: The classic response of the Russian failure. Let me ban and censor my critics, and after I do then I will be perfect. That’s why poor Anna Politkovskaya met her doom. But the USSR still disappeared, didn’t it? How ironic.
конюхъ: Please give an example as RussianEnglish has done. Your empty words mean nothing, a lesson Russians will probably never learn before they become extinct.
interesting.
ted never called LR “insignificant”, yet somehow that is what she feels.
very interesting indeed.
to Russophob: At least not fear. Don’t confuse Russia and Soviet Union. Are you afraid of Russian culture and Russian nation? Or you’re so scared that you ty to shift the talk to politics?
Andrei, born in Russia. Not Russian
When I was a small girl, back in the mid 80’s my parents bought me some USSR books for children, though I live in Spain, of course they were translated.
I remember the pictures were very similar to these, and there was no propaganda in htem (I’ve read them again many times as I grew older). The only “propaganda” I could find in there was that children of many races could play together, and that sometimes your imagination and little resources are the best toys to play…
I must say this: I loved those stories when I was young, they made me dream, and when I read them again they are still interesting and intelligent, even for an adult mind. I can’t say the same thing about my Mickey Mouse comics!
I mean no offence, it’s just to clarify not all the stuff that was given to children for reading in USSR was propaganda
…And you should see Spanish books for children from the times of Franco’s dictatorship..
Guys and girls, for those of you who can’t read Russian:
these poems are just children poems about how fun it is to celebrate a holiday, how stars will shine, how trees will become red in Fall, how children will go to watch fireworks with their parents etc.
There is no politics here.
I remember myself reading such verses and celebrating November holidays. Same as my classmates I had no clue what a holiday was about. It was just a holiday.
I dont remeber that book, though I should. Nevertheless, there were lots of other propogand books
La Russophobe’s actions can be easily understood. Her hatred for Russia (even though she uses the failures of the Political system) is most likely fueled by a failed romantic (ex)-relationship with a Russian male (female?) I promise you that she will reference a “Russian *something*” in my commenting as she hopes to attribute anything negative to those people.
I went to a Catholic school in Brooklyn, NY in the 1950’s. We had cross’s on our school uniforms. As I see lt it was the same as the “Red Stars” Russian, and Soviet kids had to wear.
Symbols say who we are. Or at least who we were.
EVERY nation in the world have their ideological books for the children.
In my country,Brazil,when I was a child the books shows to us Dom Pedro I,the man who leads our independence from Portugal,ridding on a horse next to a river.
Now I know he’s probably ridding on a donkey,because off the mountains
IT’S COMPLETELY NORMAL GUYS
It’s not brainwash,it’s national ideology,and it its present on every single corner of the planet!
Capitalists countries shows capitalist propaganda and ideology,and communist countries shows communist propaganda and ideology!
In Brazil,Catholic’s Church is a quite of powerfull(not as like on the past,off course).
In some schools,we have to pray at the school’s church EVERY SINGLE MORNING.
And we have religion class too.
Everybody uses a cross on uniform,and the most have a cross necklace
When I was a kid, I thought my adult life would be just like the movie, ‘Red Dawn’.
Welcome to Yiwu..Welcome to Amandaiec.
Propaganda from first days of life.
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