Soviet Paradise

Where are the soviet caramels? Report in the newspaper "Good night, Moscow", of December 22, 1987. *Names of caramels cited by the journalist: Гусиные лапки - Duck paws Раковые шейки - Crab tails Дружба (конфет) - Friendship The seller's face at 0:18 is priceless. So, do you know where these caramels ended up? We could even try an answer here, but let's leave this one to you. Soon, reports about factories and clothing stores, and cakes out of date.

In "Reach the Automobile", a 1976 documentary film, the problems related to traffic in the Soviet Union are addressed, with great emphasis on road accidents, which mainly involved pedestrians. It is widely known that happened a change in attitude of the Soviet governments regarding the personal car, which was previously observed as within a capitalist logic considered unreational, in terms of the use of scarce resources, and became part of culture and politics of the country's development within the new possibilities of "technical progress", the basis for other changes according to a materialist perspective. Although the car in scarcer in USSR than in other countries, during the 1960s and 1970s there was a great effort to expand the production of personal cars. Along with the expansion of existing factories, such as the former MZMA, Muscovite Factory of Economy Cars, renamed AZLK, two new factories were created: in Izhevsk, with the objetive of producing a car with a previous soviet project and under the responsibility of the Ministry of Defense Industry, and in Togliatti, with the creation of Lada, under the responsibility of the Ministry of Automobile Industry and in which prevailed the less conservative option (in Soviet perspective) of receiving initial foreign support. Within this context, this 1976 documentary also addresses the growing importance of the personal automobile, its cultural implications and, above all, its impacts on traffic safety. The problems regarding the supply of spare parts, typical of an economy not directly governed by market prices, is also shown euphemistically, as part of the difficulties that would mark the life of a driver, and in which rational criteria is not always possible to be applied. According to Professor Ivanov and Major General Nozdriakov, the proposed solutions to traffic safety problems permeated the technical improvement of automobiles, a greater capacity to convince people, in which dialogue and persuasion is valued , as well as the improvement of road signaling conditions and pedestrian support. And the automobile, which today loses prestige among the new generations, due to the growing difficulty that maintaining a vehicle represents, due to the environmental concern, as well as the practicality of transport apps, at that time was also consolidated as a desire for consumption by socialist society, marking the 20th century. Our content has been classified as "repetitive" by Youtube, which is another gimmick by the platform to cancel monetization. So if you can contribute to the channel (communists also need money): Paypall button: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=AHMFD95E3M7K6 Contact: jordanmarcosrocha@gmail.com Our second channel (with the Ladas): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX_tmUkMUfiyILw4AZFdjWQ Challenge: -Find the Lada Niva -Find a foreign car

Probably filmed in 1975, 7 years after the start of construction of the Volga Automobile Factory (VAZ). At that time, the factory produced the models VAZ-2101, 2102 and 2103 "Lux". The well-known phrase "every 21 seconds a new car is produced" was already present, showing that production reached more than 700,000 cars per year, conquering the mark of just over half of all light cars (for passenger cars) produced in the USSR. Soon we will translate an TV news report about the disappearing of caramels in the USSR. Our content has been classified as "repetitive" by Youtube, which is another gimmick by the platform to cancel monetization. So, if you can contribute to the channel: Paypall button: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=AHMFD95E3M7K6 Our second channel (with the Ladas): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX_tmUkMUfiyILw4AZFdjWQ

"A lot depends on each enterprise, each workshop, each brigade, and each worker. And what does it mean? It means be working not only with discipline and diligence, but be working consciously, skillfully and with results, working beautifully, so that others can respect you for your work, and so that you can respect yourself". In this report by the news program Vremia (Time) of May 28, 1978, reminding these wise words by Leonid Brezhnev in the XVIII Komsomol Congress, welder Nina Kandrashova highlights the necessary effort to improve the quality of production at the Automobile Factory of Leninist Komsomol (AZLK). Only in the Soviet Union would it be possible to see at 1:01, in Nina's interview, two "souvenirs": a commemorative plaque with the logo of VAZ (Lada) and a miniature similar to a Volga, from GAZ. In any other country, such factories would be considered as competitors.

You can watch the film by mosfilm channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVpmZnRIMKs Lyrics: I asked the ash (tree): "Where is my beloved?" The ash didn't answer me, shaking his head. I asked the poplar (tree): "Where is my beloved?" The poplar threw me autumn leaves. I asked the autumn: "Where is my beloved?" The autumn didn't answer with downpour. The rain I asked: "Wherei is my beloved?" The long rain in tears falls by my window. I asked the half moon: "Where ismy beloved?" The half moon hid in the cloud, didn't answer me. I asked the cloud: "Where is my beloved?" The cloud hid in the sky blue. My friend, unique, where is my beloved? Do you say where she disappeared? Do you know where she is? The friend replied devotee, the friend answered sincerely: "Your beloved went on, your beloved went on Your beloved went on to become my wife!".

#Chernobyl #HBO #Energy We are launching another Soviet documentary 35 years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Produced two years before the fateful accident of April 26, 1986, and five years after a minor accident at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant, the documentary addresses the process of building nuclear power plants and development of more efficient reactors in the Soviet Union. Starting with the Obninsk Power Plant, the world's first nuclear power plant, the documentary takes us back to the country's pioneering spirit and the importance of academic Igor Vassilievich Kurchatovin this development. Throughout the documentary, there are excerpts from the interview with the President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Anatoli Petrovich Alexandrov. The implantation of nuclear power plants is defended mainly in the western part of the USSR, devoid of combustible resources, and it is also approached regarding the new fast neutron reactors, which made possible the reprocessing of the uranium used in the plants to obtain plutonium, also a component of nuclear fuels. The large number of projects in Ukrainian SSR draws attention, with the launch of the fourth 1,000 MW Chernobyl reactor and the construction of the Khmelnytski, Southern Ukraine, Crimean, Rovno and Zaporozhia nuclear plants. More to the end, the implementation is also justified by the environmental bias, which in the Soviet Union had no doctrinal character, although deficient in several aspects, including the deposit of nuclear waste, which was not always intended as demonstrated. A very relevant part is also the production of nuclear equipment, in which the great example is the Atommash project in Volgodonsk, that, with Soviet computer engineering, was able to produce grandiose equipment with minimal tolerances on a scale. Also focused on the security of operations, we perceive the distance from the Western discourse, starring, for example, the HBO series, with the environmental discourse shown by the Soviet media. In the Soviet Union, there was also a concern to show efforts against any type of accident involving these plants, even if inserted at a time when no nuclear accident had gained such proportions and relevance as that of Chernobyl. Finally, one of the aspects that led to the translation of this documentary is that there is a type of mentality that is increasingly rare today: of optimism in technological development as a creator of general well-being, in which everyone would be distant from the problems of scarcity that drive world a lot of conflicts. The city of Bilibino, receiving light and heat through its plant, reminds us of the image of an oasis in a desert. Today, more than scarcity, we realize that we are also guided by the need to stand out, and to create new needs in a process of individualism, this being one of the causes of the slow degeneration of the planned Soviet economy. And if we look at the documentary beyond mere factuality, I venture to consider that it is also a work of art that portrays in its succession of images, speeches and soundtracks, meticulously assembled, this mentality. "I am convinced that the common sense inherent in peoples will triumph, and the time is not far away when the precious uranium and plutonium will be used in atomic engines that propel peaceful ships and in power plants, bringing light and heat to the people's homes." - Academic Igor Vasilievich Kurchatov.

This report in the news program Vremya of June 19, 1979 highlights the award given to architects and other members of the "working class" in Donetsk. The city had performed well in fulfilling the five-year plans and many citizens were awarded Soviet awards. Currently, the Donetsk region is decadent because it is in dispute between pro-Russian paramilitary troops and Ukrainian troops. The final part is really muted, probably a margin for cuts in the newspaper's edition.

This report in the TV news program Vremya of June 24, 1988 shows the supermarket No. 60 in the Krilatskoe district, of the Ilyushin aircraft factory, in Moscow. The intention revealed by report was to show a typical Soviet supermarket and the problems faced by this type of establishment in the Soviet Union, although actions were promoted to improve the services, with the change of 8 directors, and that differentiated the supermarket among others. One customer's grocery shopping was timed and took 10 minutes. The small size of the purchase and the small size of the cart compared to what we know today is strange. Apparently, the supermarket's previous condition of neglect allowed it to participate in some improvement program and vary its workforce, opening up other services. Meanwhile, the part of preparing the goods for sale was antiquated, with the filling of the products being done manually in the supermarket itself. The plans were to create a department to fill products in the future. Anyway, this supermarket differs from the countless photos we see about the period of Perestroika, when the shelves were empty.