25 Soviet things you haven't heard about abroad

The past of each country is unique and unites the people living in it. We remember the good Soviet times and what causes a pleasant thrill and nostalgia in our hearts.

1. Pionerball

2. Trust turnstiles

3. Boiled condensed milk

4. Footcloths

This is the opinion of the army leadership. But each of us can bring one useful skill from the army. For girls, for example, the ability to instantly make socks out of two handkerchiefs makes an indelible impression.

5. Sit on the track

6. Knock on wood

7. Bath broom

8. Birch sap

Yes, and an adult birch sap is absolutely necessary when a foreigner comes to visit him. Then you can buy a jar of this juice and make the guest taste our national drink properly, watching the expression of his face at this moment with quiet pleasure.

9. Kvass

10. "Retona"

Then you will only need to rinse the laundry properly, wash it by hand or remove the most ingrained stains with bleach and squeeze out the laundry thoroughly. Millions of people have already bought this ingenious invention for themselves. By the way, "Porridge from an axe" is also a Russian fairy tale.

11. Seeds

12. Vocative case

13. Old New Year

As a result, a hodgepodge like an Olivier salad turned out in the memory of the people, and we became the owners of unprecedented wealth — as many as three festive weeks beginning with Catholic Christmas and ending with a slightly sad holiday, the Old New Year, the very name of which is from the category of things impossible, but existing.

14. String bag

15. The address is the opposite

16. Activated carbon

17. "What? Where? When?" and KVN

18. Coloring Easter eggs with onion husks

19. Cup holders

20. Buckwheat

Nutritionists believe: the whole point here is that you need to get used to buckwheat from a young age, otherwise an adult, trying buckwheat porridge for the first time, will feel bitterness and a chemical taste. So, except for us, no one really eats it and does not know how to eat. Although buckwheat is sold in Europe and the USA in all kinds of "biological" food stores, but you can't look at these bags without tears. Buckwheat in them is not fried: green, crushed and good for nothing.

21. Doors opening inwards

22. Brine

23. March 8 and February 23

24. Zelenka

Solid teratogens with carcinogens. Since then, all sorts of malicious Western commissions have been demanding that the production of zelenka be banned. But in a country where it is still recommended in textbooks on obstetrics to lubricate the nipples of nursing mothers with green paint (against cracks), such proposals can be regarded as extreme blasphemy and in some ways even piggishness. Because this is already an attempt on the basics.

25. Pine nuts