Wait, on the last slide what do you guys mean gamers wear the vacuum tops on their heads as they play role playing games? That's hilarious. I do like the Soviet aesthetic though, especially in strategy games. One of my favorite that I think captures the design inspiration from that place and time is VictorsUnited.

If those are 12 beautiful things out of the USSR, please spare us the ugly ones. One continuous sad unmitigated failure for all of its nearly 70 years. Please don't anyone point out Sputnik to me.

Here's a story for ya: back in the 60's I was in high school and a political junkie. I liked finding odd political groups and attending their meetings. So I found the CPUSA and showed up at this scruffy, mostly bare apartment in Hollywood, filled with guys in sweaters and pipe tobacco smoke.

After a really boring little while, I got into a sort of conversation with the plain Jane hostess, who was at first mostly interested in whether I was a deceptively boyish FBI agent. Or maybe she thought I was Tintin.

We were in the kitchen, which was also bare except for a small square dining table covered with a thin plastic imitation tablecloth, atop which sat an extremely ornate samovar, the only item of any interest in the whole place.

Cleverly, Jane noticed my look of interest and pointed out that the samovar was a great Russian invention, an example of Russian genius in not being dependent of bourgeois insitutions like gas and electricity. I must have looked puzzled, as I had up until that moment thought gas and electricity were good things.

Anyway, she launched into an extremely elaborate description of how one works a samovar: where you put the coal, and how you light the coal, and adjust the flame, all delivered step-by-step; there were a lot of steps. Now thoroughly worked up, she got through adding the water to the urn and paused, drawing in a breath. "Presto!," she cried. "Hot water!"

I went home shortly thereafter. Clearly, nothing was going to top this.

I remember back in the 80s my dad used to pick-up soviet union cameras and synney camers for next to nothing and they were pretty well made for what they were. Some of the products they have brought to market may not have appealed to the market such as the Japansese and German products which they often coped but still not bad and certainly a bargain. seo in kent

What a telephone. I would like to know how they came up with the concept. If there's no dial, might as well make this as a child's toy.

I remember those from my childhood. Those little jars were horrible. They left huge round bruises on the back that looked like the spots on a leopard. They would last for many days.

Most Soviet children with bad chest colds were subjected to the "Banki". After having the whole back covered in those things, they would be wrapped up in layers of blankets and left to sweat it out for hours. Another lovely "cure" were mustard pads. All they did is burn the skin, but the old wives tales had it that "heat cures everything". For ear infections we would get vodka poured into our ear....
So glad my parents stopped this nonsense once they came to this country.

Uh, it's so obvious, how could we all have missed it? Those phones with the gereric blank dials are gen. 0.5 IPhones! Apple ripped off mother Russia!

A few other random notes:

-My parents had one of those collapsable plastic cups.

-Those magazines look like the DVD covers for the criterion collection.

-That vacuum cleaner looks like one of the squid robot monsters from The Matrix.

Noticed that the vacuum cleaner has its name written in our alphabet, not theirs. Seems rather un-Soviet to attempt a bit of foreign chic.

Can't believe they had communal glasses for the soda machine! The images are so funny, the vacuum cleaner looks great too although no beating henry the hoover.

love the vacuum cleaner design. I want one. I'm not sure what kind of treatment it would give the carpet, but it looks cool all the same.

A very interesting piece. I had a good read through. There are some interesting points made. I agree with many of the points. Thanks for writing the article for us to read and debate. All the best , Molly.

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