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Wonderful Pictures of the late 70s, made in the Urals Chelyabinsk. What makes it good? The network is quite a lot of pictures of this period, foreign tourists usually made in Moscow and St. Petersburg. And we see them in their daily sovgrazhdan, we see the signs of the time - the red banner, lean shop windows. But there is no annoying ads, and people dressed up is not so bad - many in jeans, fashionable close-fitting jackets ...
But, I also remember a very different «look». Because Moscow - this is not growth. And especially not to Chelyabinsk. I must say that in the European Union, people are still better dressed. Such characters are represented in the pictures we called kugutami, plows, kolhozanami. But it was the most that neither is the Soviet people. Proudly carrying the banner of ...

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2. The demonstrations, and there were two, the November and May Day, occupied an important place in the lives of working people. It was such a ray of light in a series of gray everyday life. Politically motivated go by the wayside, and activities were most present-day corporate function. Colleagues started drinking before the demonstration, did not disperse and after))

Please note - women almost uniform.

3. fur earflaps can be judged on the social status sovgrazhdan. The authorities - in seals and fawn, traders and spicules in the muskrat, Gorgol - in nutria, and ordinary people in shapeless rabbits. Here as in the photo.
And of course, the pride of the proletariat - acquired through connections or cassette cool radio. Do not sin, and to demonstrate to him to take!)

4. Look, it's just "our response to the imperialists')) Mizulina would fall into a swoon)

5. The people and the party united - not an empty phrase, not witty. Petrovich and San Sanych company Arvid Yanovich Pel'she ...
The more gold teeth - the more solid and more respected person)

6. Strange neighborhood railway ways and cinema)

10. Ivan patrimony Doolin))

11. Here they are - the typical kuguty. Fashion))

12. The cap of astrakhan - dump Baska))

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15. Provincial intellectuals in the Urals wore on his head, "cakes". We in the South this was not ...

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20. House of the Life - a common element of the urban landscape at the time. Jobs are considered most prestigious - live penny podhalturit opportunity.