Photos from the "old days"

NorBro said:
Tell 'em that when people drank together (which actually has to be mentioned because a good portion drank by themselves), they always passed around a bottle, multiple bottles.

Groups always drinking out of the same bottle. Probably still a practice until today, at least in some parts by some creatures.

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BTW, those playgrounds over there and other places in the early days were at times extremely dangerous. Going down a slide could rip a limb off because of no maintenance to what the metal/etc. turns into.
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A typical practice in the USSR was a "troika". The vodka bottle size most frequently sold was 500mL, enough for three people to get a little buzz, while sharing the expense of ~ 3.62 for Moskovskaya or 4.12 for Stolichnaya (1970's) . In the photo just above, they're drinking cheap fortified wine (most popular labels were Agdam and 777), not dissimilar to Ripple, Thunderbird or Night Train. Those had alcohol content of about 18%, which made disease passing a low risk. Just in case, there was a manner of drinking from a common bottle, which was to attach the outside of the lips only. The next inline would then try to smudge the traces of the previous drinker from it.

And, while we didn't have a slide in our building, we did have a sand pit. However, my favorite sand pit was a block away at my old elementary/high school. We had a stadium there and the pit for long jumps. Which was perfect for playing a soccer goalie, as one could dive freely without hurting oneself.

Old style vodka bottles.

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BTW, I was perusing some info about the alcohol consumption in the USSR and found that, off the official Soviet sources only, that revenues from the sales of alcoholic beverages constituted over ten percent of the state revenues before Mikhail Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign of 1985-86. By comparison, the US alcoholic beverage market is about 1.1% of its GDP (in the Soviet Union, the economy was the state budget), with over forty percent of that being beer.

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Yeah, there was always a collection of shoes by the door, you'd never wear them inside, at least in the 90s (and before).
 
Another Soviet era joke.

The rabbi elections are so difficult. The first candidate is an expert on Torah but not a Communist Party member. The second is a Communist Party member but knows crap about Torah. The third is both a Communist Party member and a Torah expert ... but not a Jew.

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