Recently I was reviewing old photographs from the times of Soviet life, and most of all I'm interested in photos of people's lives - houses, apartments, interiors, clothing, food and so on. It is very interesting to watch at shops - at the showcases and at the principles of interaction between the seller and the buyer.
Only 25 years passed after the fall of the Soviet Union, but it seems like an eternity had passed - so all that was then, is different from the one that we have now.
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So, in this post we look at the photos of Soviet stores and see how they were different from today.
First, let's look at the showcases. For example, a showcase of "manufactured goods" in one of the Soviet stores, there are exposed plates, pans sets, mechanical grinders, as well as aluminum ladles and skimmers - which were probably in every Soviet apartment. Meat grinders were in each one, as the cutlet was often the only dish that can be prepared from the bad store meat.
There were no "food processors" in the Soviet Union - only in the late Soviet 70-80th primitive juicers, blenders and electric coffee machines appeared.
And this is a showcase of the product department. For some reason, there were often built huge pyramids of cans with canned food - apparently, it was considered beautiful. Personally, I remember very well these tin pyramids in the windows of the Minsk shop "Ocean" at the intersection of the avenue and Kozlov Street. The most common were canned fish.
Inside the fish department. Generally fish - was probably the only thing that was more or less stable, you could buy it in the stores during the Soviet era, even in periods of scarcity on the shelves there was canned and frozen pollack. Also in fish departments, there was sold seaweed, which I still can’t stand.
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