The heyday of stagnation in color

As the author says - 1981 was the apogee of "stagnation", the last stage of ossification of the Soviet political system. I propose to look at the pictures of that year and compare it true his statement.

See also History color photographs in 1963

Also see the posts tagged Soviet Pioneers at the Sochi station:





December 19 Leonid Ilyich awarded the fourth star of the Hero of the Soviet Union:



Total "children's" recollection of the early 1980s - and the cold grayness. But there was one bright spot that warms everything - a holiday "in the South", ie, on the Black Sea coast.
In the early 1980s we went to millions of Soviet citizens. Most of these trains was getting.
Holidaymakers in the train station at the Sochi:



On the beaches creates a nightmare (as it is now, probably). This Odessa beach-81:



In the Soviet resort life lacked entertainment.
One of the most enjoyable are boat trips. Sochi:



Excursions in open buses, Sochi:



On the seafront in Sochi (and in other resort areas) people playing chess and checkers:



And there was even a show in Sochi "nightclub." With that in 1981 introduced criminal liability for unlawful training of karate!



Someone just wanted to lie down on a bench. Primorsky Boulevard in Sochi:



The room of distorting mirrors in Sochi:



Favorite children's entertainment at the time: arcade and shooting. Sochi:



And what holiday without ice cream? Sochi:



And brew course:



Lesson "Disco" in the pioneer camp "CASS Banner" near Odessa.



Pioneers like:



Veteran talks about war children in the pioneer camp "Red Flag" near Odessa:



1981 - this is the era of shortages and queues.



But for people to break the Pepsi Cola:



But Soviet medicine and health care system are, in general, at a height.
People resting after sulfur baths at Matsesta:



Oxygen treatment in a sanatorium near Riga:



A little fotonablyudeny Peter Marlowe.

On a bench in Riga:



Odessa on a rainy day:



Alien attraction at ENEA in Moscow:



People find their entertainment like in the darkest times of stagnation.
Member of the hunting club of Riga:



On the Belarusian railway station in Moscow:



Moscow Street 1981:



And I look at 1981 Sq. Dzerzhinsky (Lubyanka):



Kiev Khreshchatyk-81:



St. Sofia's Square in Kyiv-81:



Kharkov-81:



Yakutsk-81

That such was our life in a memorable 1981, in a country that many now call "shovel».



Source: visualhistory.livejournal.com