10 simple ways Soviets had fun in summer (PHOTOS)

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
TASS

2. Drinking a soda from a vending machine

Dmitry Baltermants/MAMM/MDF
Dmitry Baltermants/MAMM/MDF

3. Quenching one’s thirst with cold kvass from a street vendor

Harrison Forman/russiainphoto.ru
Harrison Forman/russiainphoto.ru

4. Cooling off with water from the street truck sprinkler

Olga Ignatovich/Museum of Moscow
Olga Ignatovich/Museum of Moscow

5. Singing songs around the campfire

Vladimir Akimov / Sputnik
Vladimir Akimov / Sputnik

6. Eating an entire watermelon!

Yury Abramochkin/Yury Abramochkin archive
Yury Abramochkin/Yury Abramochkin archive

7. Blowing on a dandelion

Yury Sadovnikov/MAMM/MDF
Yury Sadovnikov/MAMM/MDF

8. Making a wreath out of wildflowers

Yevgeny Koktysh / Sputnik
Yevgeny Koktysh / Sputnik

9. Fishing

Dmitry Kozlov/MAMM/MDF
Dmitry Kozlov/MAMM/MDF

10. Camping

Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF
Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF

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