Someone remembers the country with a warm feeling and nostalgia. Others scold the deficit or the Soviet way of life, although the latter had simplicity and strict order. But there were also quite unusual phenomena, and we’ll talk about them.
The first domestic computer game
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The Lokis cooperative created it in 1990 and it was, to put it mildly, peculiar. One name is worth it – “Perestroika”. The player pressed the arrows on the keyboard and controlled the frog. In general, what is the name, such is the game.
Ice cream
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It was made according to the most stringent GOST in the world – 1841. Natural milk was used, even minor deviations were equated with marriage. Perhaps that is why it was so popular abroad.
Personal Computer
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It was launched in a series in 1984 and was called “Agate”. They were equipped with computer science classrooms, research institutes and some industries. But the main task of this PC is to educate schoolchildren.
Soviet whiskey
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There was also this. Most of all, it resembled a Canadian drink – they used rectified alcohol and foreign aromatic preparations. It was not particularly successful, although it was inexpensive.
The USSR had its own Hitler
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And he even took part in the Great Patriotic War. It was a machine gunner Semyon Konstantinovich Hitler, a Jew by nationality. He was brave and presented for a reward for accomplishing a feat. Unfortunately, Semyon died on July 3, 1942 near Sevastopol.
nuclear explosions
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For some reason, many believe that they were only used to test weapons. Not at all, from 1965 to 1988. in the USSR, more than 100 peaceful nuclear explosions were carried out – to reveal mineral deposits or create underground tanks.
Round the world on a submarine
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In 1966, the Soviet submarines K116 and K133 went around the world in three months without rising to the surface.
laser pistol
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There was also something exotic. It was developed in 1984 and was non-lethal. It was intended for self-defense of astronauts, and the main principle is to disable optical systems and human eyes.
High-rise buildings moved in Moscow
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From 1930 to 1983, several buildings were moved from place to place in the capital. They weighed several thousand tons, but this did not stop the Soviet engineers. This was necessary to clear the area for new buildings.
Sanctions
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This phenomenon is not new and has been going on for decades. On December 29, 1981, US President Ronald Reagan launched another wave of anti-Soviet policies and imposed economic sanctions. In 1983, he remembered science fiction and Star Wars – he called the USSR the “Evil Empire”. At the same time, he assured that he was always ready for negotiations with the Kremlin. Well, the apotheosis was Reagan’s visit to Moscow in 1988, when he became close friends with Gorbachev. In 1989, he said: “In all honesty, today I can no longer call the Soviet Union an evil empire.” Two years later, the country was gone. So Comrade Stalin looked 10 steps ahead when he said: “If our opponents praise us, we must be on our guard. But if they scold, then we are doing everything right.”
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