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10 simple ways Soviets had fun in summer (PHOTOS)
Gateway to Russia
Jul 16 2024
Lifestyle
There was no money for expensive entertainment or trips to exotic resorts, so people found joy and pleasure in the most ordinary things.
1. Eating ice cream in the park
TASS
2. Drinking a soda from a vending machine
Dmitry Baltermants/MAMM/MDF
3. Quenching one’s thirst with cold kvass from a street vendor
Harrison Forman/russiainphoto.ru
4. Cooling off with water from the street truck sprinkler
Olga Ignatovich/Museum of Moscow
5. Singing songs around the campfire
Vladimir Akimov / Sputnik
6. Eating an entire watermelon!
Yury Abramochkin/Yury Abramochkin archive
7. Blowing on a dandelion
Yury Sadovnikov/MAMM/MDF
8. Making a wreath out of wildflowers
Yevgeny Koktysh / Sputnik
9. Fishing
Dmitry Kozlov/MAMM/MDF
10. Camping
Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF
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#Children in Russia
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