(aaah i totally screwed this entry up the first time)
USSR
Tabacco shop
street market sort of
the sign above the door says "cakes"--like a bakery.
before vending machines, they had these machines with carbonated water in them and ONE glass. you'd put the money in the machine and the machine would wash the glass really fast and pour out water for you. then you'd put the glass back for the next person...weird?
soldiers digging for potatoes
kvas. a carbonated drink bread, or yeast...it's awesome. sold in big things on the street during summer...
milk
radio made in the ussr
president yeltsin!
a check?
recorder made in the ussr
outside meat market
old women, lines...
not so sure, but this looks like some kind of factory exercise break?
Leningrad tennis balls
first ussr video games?
russian ....concord?
aeroflot--i reallllllly hate this airline.
moscow
volga!
red square in moscow, some kind of parade
school
souvenirs
pioneers!
same ussr machine with pepsi...
grocery store.
1980 olympics in the ussr
i love this. fidel castro (cuba) and a russian sailor.
totally russian. vodka and pickles.
newspapers posted up on the streets of the city (still have it today)
st petersburg
lenin
music. dancing.
making pelmeni. dumplings with meat in the middle
scarves.
it used to be a lot. but is now equal to about .025 of a cent
again, vending machines
milk in trucks?
cosmonauts!
PEPSI
babushki
drinking tea outside on a picnic
babushki drink tea out of saucers.
bread
hospital
train, or metro
pioneers
parades.weapons.
red square. moscow.
factories. women.