My Favorite Soviet-era Toys. Most Popular Toys in the USSR
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- Soviet toys. Most popular toys in the Soviet Union. My favorite Soviet-era toys.
0:00 Intro
0:39 Exploring popular toys in the Soviet Union, including linguistic differences in naming toys.
2:39 Soviet-era toys included metal and wooden options, focusing on basic production due to government regulations.
5:30 Nostalgic Soviet-era toys including a plastic rifle and a helicopter manufactured in Leningrad.
8:09 Exploring vintage Soviet-era toys from Ukraine, including a space gun, a kaleidoscope tube, and a restored toy tractor.
11:02 Gunpowder Factory repurposed leftover material to create cute dolls, reflecting Soviet-era toy manufacturing challenges.
Recap by Tammy AI
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Weren't cameras and watches built by weapons manufacturers? I actually have owned a couple of Soviet built products, and remember the camera equipment specifically was built by KMZ. The cameras were usually a copy of a Leica design; usually not as well built, but they actually had some improvements over the original design (if you've handled a Leica and a Soviet copy, you know what I'm talking about). I can imagine that the timing mechanisms in a watch or camera would be built by a factory manufacturing artillery fuses, and lenses for cameras made by the same company building lenses for spy satellites and such. Wouldn't be a very big leap.
In the North East US we have the loan word "tchotchke" (which I'd pronounce sort of like "chotch-key") from Yiddish, referring to trinkets or fun and cheap items.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchotchke
Thanks, Sergei ! Very interesting episode, I had no idea about the variety of Soviet toys. Space toys, die cast cars I've seen, but wow!
Most of those toys are pretty cool 😎
The Soviet space toys were my favourite, very expensive on ebay now.
I had a wooden musket when I was a kid, along with a racoon hat. Those were my fondest memories as a child; pretending to be Davy Crockett defending the Alamo and fighting bears and Indians in the Wild West. My dog Pat played the bear. He always won. The musket was all wood stock and a thin metal pipe. It did have a trigger mechanism, but it wasn't designed to fire anything or make any real noise. Damn, I miss those days. RIP, Pat, you were the best bear.
My favorite toy as a small child was a stick that in my child mind was a muzzle-loading pistol.
I bought a nice looking toy long rifle at a garage sale that you could fire paper caps in the hammer with. I taped a pointed stick to the end as my bayonet since my Dad and I watched the 1984 'George Washington' tv series so I had lots of battles with redcoats and long hunts out in the woods of our farm. I got a real .36 caliber squirrel rifle percussion muzzle loader when I was 13.
@@craigbenz4835I loved my realistic cap revolver. It was partly metal, it was heavy.
Bureau of Gunpowder and Wobbly Toys approves.
It reminds me of the Tonka trucks that I used to play with. I was born in 66.
and Buddy L.
As an enthusiast of Soviet armor, when I was a kid my father bought for me a second hand T-55 metal toy made in the USSR with rubber tracks.
Despite some rusted angle the toy still functioning properly.
I had a Soviet-made wind-up car that came to me in a very circuitous route. My Dad was a US Navy officer stationed at Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean, in the early 70's. A Polish-flagged ship sent a distress call to the base, because of a medical emergency (appendicitis, IIRC) and requested assistance. No one on the ship spoke very good English, but several spoke fluent Russian. By sheer coincidence, one of my Dad's subordinates was either a Russian immigrant to the US, or possibly first generation Russian-American, who spoke fluent Russian. My Dad, and his subordinate, were shuttled out to the ship. After some brief conversation, the sick sailor, and one of the ship's officers were brought ashore. The sailor was treated, and I can't remember if he returned to the ship or was evacuated to Mauritius. Anyway, while the sailor was being treated, the ship's officer stayed with my Dad, his subordinate, and the British military rep (it was technically a British Territory) in my Dad's office. He saw a photo of me and my siblings, on my Dad's desk and that sparked a conversation about everyone's families. Though Dad didn't say so, I'm almost certain that some beers were shared. When the officer was returned to the ship, he sent back a box with some "Thank You" gifts. I don't know what else was in the box, but there was a wind-up sedan that ended up coming home with Dad. A nice bit of person-to-person diplomacy during the height of the Cold War.
That is such a lovely story. Do you still have the car? If yes, have you posted it anywhere? If not, what happened to it?
Awesome story, thank you for sharing!
I honestly love the Soviet toys. They have such a distinctive look to them. They are really sought after now from what I’ve seen. That’s why I got one of the girl made of tin when I saw it.
I build a lot of 1/72 scale plastic toy military vehicles and airplanes from FROG, in the early 70's, with toy soldiers. Mostly purchased them from a GDR Collector in Radevormwald in 1975. I still have them. In the 80's I handpainted them, together with the Revell, Airfix, Matchbox, and Atlantic Figurines, and build dioramas . The Soviet toys added a special flavor to it.
I remember that my father bought me a Fairey Gannet plane model from Revell when I was a kid (like, 25 years ago) and when I opened it, it had a message saying that it was in fact a "Frog" kit. Revell probably bought the molds for the model after the Cold War and release a sixties kit in the 2000s.
Even then, quality was very poor, I never painted it but I still have it. It has a nice story to it
@@joaoonda I had a secret weapon to work around deficiencies, with Putty and a Nail Grinder.
I appreciated the models as they were. That was more than 40 years ago, and I had a lot of patience, fixing things.
You are right about Revell incorporating the FROG molds.
W0W... that was WAY too short...very cool. Thanks for making this. Loved it.
Ah, it's my favorite Soviet-American vlogger, John Wayne Cheeseburger. The metal Soviet toys from the 70's look a lot like the metal toys my dad had as a kid in the 50's
We have a few of my Dad’s toys from the late 20s, and two are used as antiques or displays in the house. They’re not fancy, but in good condition and bring back the good memories.
Here in the US we had metal toys too just not as many. Specifically those big yellow Tonka trucks the dump trucks I had one of those and a metal fire truck
@@davidbuchholz9594I had a phone company Tonka truck.
Those metal trucks and tractors are really cool!! I remember those here in the states and I loved playing with them. They didn't just break, but they did rust.
What a great episode! Thank you, Sergei.
My pleasure!
@@UshankaShowAny railway modelling in the USSR?
@@OscarOSullivan I recall something about toy trains from East Germany. But I personally never saw any
Car modelling, ship modelling and airplane modelling were probably more popular. Most articles in the magazine «Моделист-конструктор» were about those hobbies.
I don't think those metal trucks were ugly at all. And this is why everyone is getting soft. Those were not "dangerous " toys. I and a whole generation survived childhood. 😊
Those were the toys available all over the world, except perhaps for the US and Japan.
Really interesting video, Sergey.
Being belgian and born in 1981, I. Had the chance of being able to compare the "playing experience" with both western and soviet toys, as around 1990, the eastern block toys started to appear in western europe, often sold in flea markets that are very popular in Belgium.
So I had the chance to get the big military vehicles box, with a BTR-60, a BRDM-1, a Scud launcher, a tracked gun tractor, a gun, a truck, and another truck with a katioucha. I played with them mercilessly, and they still look like new (they are in their original box that survived multiple movings). I had also many 1/43 "collector" die-cast cars, that looked very good compared to their western counter-parts, and survived playing session far better. I had a ZIL-117 (my go to presidential/big boss/caid car when I played), a Moskvich in milice colors, a UAZ-469 in firefighter colors and a GAZ Chaika (my KGB car, obviously... even a 9 year old belgian know who use a Chaika). I still have them too.
The fact is that western toys are like their society, divided by classes : in the 1980's, you could get cheap toys, but they often didn't survive the first day of play, and you could have good toys, but they were expensive, often more in comparison to the average salaries than the ones you covered in the video. What's true, especially since the 1970, is that western toys were far more creative and diverse, even if I think from what I saw visiting toy store lately is that this era is over and toys don't evolve that much anymore, as the video games are now the main market... every period plays as it lives.
I had two great toys imported from Soviet Union - a Moskvitch "cabrio" pedaling car, it had a metal chassis, heavy as hell, but it was pretty well made. Had lights, bumpers, windshield, looked like a real car for small people. I'm pretty sure Moskvitch made it in its car factory. The other one was a small model (almost matchbox size) of Lada Niva, and it was built of tons of small parts, really detailed, complexed and realistic looking. It had doors and trunk that open, steering wheel steered the wheels and also shock apsorbers in a super small package. But it was too fragile for a small me, so only the metal chassis survived. Both of these toys were probably Soviet flagship toys since they were really top class.
I loved playing with the fleet of die cast Tonka trucks. Both my brother and I would get down and dirty with them.
More fun outdoors where you could interact and use your imagination around the yard!
@@richardkammerer2814 It was heavily encouraged for sure!
Utterly amazing! Few take a moment to think about something as basic and mundane as toys in a given society! Precisely the sort of history that is often lost or overlooked. Thank you!
I found a soviet BRDM-2 die-cast armoured car a decade ago. I gave it to a co-worker who drove armored cars in the Canadian army.
Sir, can you share a picture of your co-worker with the car? You can blur out the face.
Super interesting!
I also had a toy from soviet union. It was a Ak-47 toy gun. It had batteries and was making sounds when you pulled the trigger 😊
There was a locksmith in Athens Georgia. Back in the 80s, I was able to see his collection of Soviet toys. They were mostly toys for boys but very interesting. He has many pedal cars. He also had several examples of truck and tractors. I enjoyed this video
Lovely video, sir. Thank you very much for it.
Your videos are great👍
Brilliant video. I have a few little toy tanks and one fires caps. They are from the 60s or 70s
Awesome again! Your vids get better and better! I rem so many of the U.S. toys. Great to know that the Sovkids had the same!
I have a friend who grew up in poland in the 1980s. He would save up to get berliner TT equipment when he could and made a layout out of things he found. He lost a lot of it but i ran into him as i had 2 locos i was selling off. One was one he had and the other was the one he wanted but never could get as a kid. Thus i helped him find more Berliner stuff and get a layout made the way he wanted to back then.
4:40 that picture brought back some childhood memories for me, when i was 8 i got a cowboy set that had a rifle like that except that it was a cap gun that used rolls of caps, it took me years to find the name of the toy gun, it turned out the name was tootsie toy texan 94
Well, your video shows that children around the world have the same interests when it comes to toys. In 2016,, I made my first of six trips to Ukraine. I had already made a very good friend, Roman. We had many conversations about toys in both the USSR and modern day Ukraine. In online chat, he had showed me the toys that his son, Jacob, had. So, before I made my trip, I acquired an old 1958 Tonka road grader, completely restored it, and brought it to Jacob. My reason for coming was culture sharing, and I shared that with Jacob through that toy. I chucked to myself while traveling, wondering what the TSA guys thought of a road grader showing in someone's luggage during x-ray.
The dolls remind me of a larger version of weeble wobbles (they wobble but they don’t fall down)
13:14 Dale Gribble is guarding his mower after watching this.
I had a toy robot very similar to the one in the vid! It shot sparks out of its chest...I guess it worked in a similar way to a cigarette lighter. It was probably a *_horrible_* fire hazard, but no-one seemed to worry about that sort of thing so much back then!
I remember some of them from Poland. I had a Pedal Car “Moskovic”, but I must have had it as a hand-me-down because it was already beat up, rust, with sharp metal seams exposed.
Someone had the “Japanese ray gun” on out street. I remember it had some wind up mechanism inside that made the wooosh noise and the sprockets on top were spinning.
I’m little younger than you, but we had that Soviet Atari Pong game knockoff too
Our early Matchbox toy cares weren't any better.
I guess he idealizes the US too much.
@@Mario_N64 He suffers under Russophobia, and caters to a crowd that loves to have their bias confirmed.
For me, history is not bad or good. It’s what happened, the actions, good and bad decisions, but the lessons and interesting results that occurred in any of those times. One must learn, to rescue the good ideas from the bad. As an exercise of appreciation for things that have merit and meaning. It’s my opinion.
For me now, the Soviet Union is interesting, because is not there anymore, and my curiosity is to know how life and situations in that society worked. The easier way to know about it with all those tools that technology allows us to have. Is fascinating very well indeed.
@@isleifoterogarcia4478 In my lifetime of 70 years I changed my views a view times,
Sometimes they build up slowly, sometimes due to a dramatic event. Or in a combination of both.
Anyway, History has been like a Puzzle, where I try to make pieces fit for the big picture. My toys played a part in that development. Most desirably where the toys that remained elusive. Unpacking and putting the final paint strokes on them, were times of greatest pleasure and also self reflection.
I played with little green army men when I was a boy. They were cheap because they were so easy to mass produce. My parents didn't even mind getting me a new pack if I saw one with a tank or truck in it at the drugstore because they were so cheap. I'm surprised they were not popular in the Soviet Union too. This reminds me, I also read a lot of comic books like Sgt Rock and G.I. Combat during that time. Did the Soviet Union also have comic books or was it just basic story books based on fairy tales? Oh, and coloring books and crayons. What were those like? Getting a big box of Crayola crayons with a sharpener built into the box was a big deal when I was kid. I was thrilled to get those and a superhero coloring book for Christmas.
Tsatska sounds like Tchotchke(Chachki) a Yiddish word used to mean the same: something shiny but useless, but collectible. Makes me also think of the polish word “Cacko”
Is the Лото game in the background at 3:45 the same as “Lotto” in East and “Memory” in West Germany? A game with pairs of pictures you put face down on the table, and then a player uncovers two pieces, if they get a pair, they can keep it and proceed to the next round, until getting two different pieces, when they have to be put back face down and the next player has their turn? This was a very popular Kindergarten game and existed with a lot of different themes, animals being the most popular.
And the doll that never falls was popular in the GDR, too, where it was usually male and called Stehaufmännchen (Stand-up man).
I had several very realistic looking submachine guns and cap guns. The 80's had lots of great toy brands like GI Joe, Stompers, Transformers. Equivalent sheet metal toys here were mainly Tonka brand. Since my mom is German (GI Dad) I had an uncle that sent me lots of Maerklin model locomotives, tracks, and cars all bearing the 'Made in West Germany' stamp. We were borderline poor during the 80's as it was a bad decade for American farmers so I usually had to wait until Christmas or my birthday to get something above my $5 bi-weekly toy allowance.
Great videos as always comrade sergei. Perhaps you could do a Soviet Solar Eclipse video?
What no real cap guns
For a gun toys topic. There vere very popular "guns" made as wooden piston with a cork at the end of a barrel. Cork connected with a string. They made funy sound when puston was pushed. Also kapishonowe pistols with pink pink powder. All lost, all past memories...
Cacko in polish is something pretty, valuable.
what an awesome topic to cover, all these toys have a wonderful appearance and they let your mind wander into the era. that robot was a beauty, I would love to score that thing!
Love the channel, Cheers, na zrodwiej!
Another fascinating video
According to Wikipedia, the word "tchotchke" (tacky trinket) comes from that Belarussian word (and its other Slavic cognates) by way of Yiddish.
Very interesting, thank you!
Ah, ha! Diecast/matchbox toys were my thing too.
Now it’s clear why these dolls burned so well. we used them to make bombs. The nitroplastic from which they were made not only burned well, but also smoldered, releasing a large amount of smoke when extinguished. we put it in a glass medicine bottle and screwed on the screw cap. Well, then we had to run away very quickly.
My sister and I got a kaleidoscope in the mid 70's. I loved that thing but never saw one after that decade.
They're still very much available, even now. From what I've seen, you mostly find them in educational toy stores or museum or science centre gift shops.
My toys were rocks and sticks. I had pretty much nothing, but it did leave me with a desire to learn. I can identify all the trees in the forest, and I can identify minerals in rocks. Maybe toys aren't the answer, learning could be the answer.
Wow... surprises with government requirements on factories... 10% for consumer goods and toys... within a command economy.... LOL... factories play with the cards they're dealt and get creative... toy guns are always a big hit in many countries... and you wonder how that shapes children who grow up into adults... (i have nieces who were not permitted to have toy guns as a matter of principle...)
My kid would like all those toys.
Great video
What a great video ! I had that robot too but I think it was from Japan 😂
my brother had a big toy NIVA, and I broke it in a early 90s)
thank you!!
I had the full size G.I. Joe army man. He was equipped with all accessories plus a Willys keep. My brother had the Gemini space capsule complete with a space suit outfitted G.I. Joe.
Although you are a few years younger than I am, all of the toys shown looked as good as anything that we had. I would have loved to have had one of those toy trucks.
Naturally, we had a lot of toys guns too. But if you were a small town or country kid like I was, at 11 or 12, you got a real rifle, so the toy guns lost their luster. Gun safety was drilled into you so hard that pointing even a toy gun at someone else made you feel like you were doing something wrong.
Edit: Was gun ownership and hunting a thing that was common in the USSR? I seem to recall reading that firearms weren't prohibited there. Perhaps I'm wrong about that.
i inherited my dads toys and got a bunch on the flea market
Yeah, things only got really high tech until the 80s.
I had some of these toys as an american in the 90s the helicopter and kaliedoscope
Nice
The wibble wobble
İ wasn't born in USSR neither lived there. İ'm Turkish and i was born and raised in Black Sea region. When Soviet Union disintigrated many people from Russia, Georgia, Azerbajcan etc. used to come to our cities and sell their goods in local bazars. That was a game changer for us because we were poor and buying a Gİjoe, tmnt, transformers etc was almost impossible İ was watching advertisements on tv and dreaming. And then we met USSR toys which was affordable for(way much affordable) us. İ bought metal tanks,soldiers, a fine pistol which shoots plastic bullets(that hurts), a water game that you push the button in order to put the rings in sticks (we had this same thing in toys shop but it was way more expensive)
My favorite Soviet toy comes in the form of a polish TT-33
I had/have mostly plushies. Mostly Moose and penguins.
Were plush toys very common in the Soviet era?
What types of underwear were available in the Soviet union? Can you do a video please on Soviet underwear?
0:58 Ukrainian language also has "tsiat`ska" ('"цяцька") word for toy but it mostly has lost it meaning under the influence of Russian. It still lives in the proverbs and sayings like "Обіцянка - цяцянка, а дурневі радість" (Promise is a toy, a fool's joy)
Most Soviet toys I remember were metal and had sharp edges. I understand now that they were implement ing the survival of the fittest so only the strongest kids could someday defeat the west.
I live in Costa Rica, Central America...just recently bougth a toy for mi nephew, it says made in Belorusia...its a plastic garbage truck...
10:16 i think crazyrussiandad did a video on those too
In soviet Russia toy plays with you!
You're telling me they didn't make space rocket or satellite or spaceship toys? Thats weird.
They did. Part 2 is coming
Did you have any pedal cars? They were expensive in Poland and if you had one - you were буржуй 😅. I had ванька встанька when I was a baby.
The Belorusian word sounds like the American word chachki. Which is like a trinket. I think the word is originally Jewish.....
Всё таки многое зависит от точки зрения. В Германии деревянные игрушки это самое крутое, что может быть. Они стоят много денег и ими играют в основном дети высших слоёв общества. А пластиковые игрушки считаются стрёмными и ими играют низшие слои общества.
Это скорее не точка зрения, а просто признак эпохи. За ужасные железные грузовички советской эпохи коллекционеры теперь платят огромные деньги
@@UshankaShow нет, в Германии так было всегда, деревянные игрушки более престижные. Те западные игрушки, которые вы показали в своём видео, и которые вы назвали крутыми, считаются в Германии стрёмными. Ими играют дети низших слоёв общества. В средних и высших самыми крутыми считаются деревянные игрушки и лучше не крашенные. Тот же джип из пластика может стоить 5 евро, а из дерева 25.
Но это не значит, что низшие слои общества завидуют игрушкам высших слоёв. Они дороже в 5 раз, выглядят хуже, не блестят, не мигают. Это скорее классовое разделение.
@@UshankaShow и естесственно, что не всё однозначно. И в богатых семьях есть пластмассовые игрушки, и у бедных деревянные. Но тенденция такова, как я описал
I always assume that was a BB gun you were holding. When I was the exact same age United States I was inseparable from my Red Ryder BB gun.... 11 year old boys are the same everywhere
Dima looks sad. You got a rifle, he could not afford. Great success.
Actually, Dima had way more nice toys and things than I. His mother worked as a drug store manager. )) He even got an expensive ZENIT SLR camera on his 16th birthday. I had to buy my own Kiev-19 SLR when I went to college
@@UshankaShow Oh, so Dima was actually fine. I feel better about him, seriously. I had a ZENIT too, and I think I still have a couple of films to develop. I was pretty good at it, did everything myself, but it's been ages...
Yes, he had his own Minsk bike, a camera, some cool toys, Rifle jeans and so on.
The Belarusian word "tsatski" for toys, it must be related to the Yiddish word, "tsatske" or "tchotchke" which means a toy or trinket (useless object) or ineffectual person (Leo Rosen, The Joys of Yiddish). Merriam-Webster thinks the origin is the Old Polish word "czaczko"...
german companies of the GDR alo sold model trains of german and russian design also
Did they ever produce plastic action figures like the ones yhat were popular in the 80s?
The KGB stealing Western toy technology? Sounds like a smash hit movie.
What about tin soldiers sets? You didn't even mention them.
Yiddish. Thats what it is. Toys. Cheap trinkets. Even Polish ppl call them 'cacko' (tsatsko) A wide variety of spellings exist for the English usage of the term, such as tchatchke, tshotshke, tshatshke, tchachke, tchotchka, tchatchka, chachke, tsotchke, chotski, and chochke; the standard Yiddish transliteration is tsatske or tshatshke.
You mean you didn't have any Lenin Logs (if you know what Lincoln Logs are, you'll understand - hehehe)?
🤣
No Nintendo in USSR? I mean the NES was released in 1980. Wasn’t Tetris invented in Russia?
the nes was released in 1983 in japan 1985 in America 1987 in western europe and officially never in russia but they had a Chinese copy called Dendy released in 1992 when Sergey was 21 Tetris was made in 1985 on a computer that was only used for scientific research and the military that was a miniaturised version of a 1960s American computer that could only do text and was supposed to be used with a type or printer and not a screen .but they replaced it with a screen but you still had printer like limits like not being able to go back to correct mistakes but they found a trick that made every letter a pixel and allowed the programmer to have more control over the screen. so you could have very low res graphics. the game then got noticed by foreign travellers who copied it and ported to the pc the only games that weren't on expensive computers where thing like. those lcd game and watch like games and a few arcades in major cites and some very rare pong consoles.
There was an electronic egg-catching game. You can find it by the model name: "Электроника 24-01".
Why develop your own toys if no one can sue you for copyright infringement? It’s free r&d
True. Especially, if your main product line is gas masks or tank optics
Lets take the moment to thank our glorious dedicated leader Joseph Stalin who provided us with such a remarkable dare i say wonderful childhoods that one will not be bound to forget. It would be practically impossible to have a functioning childhood weren't it for our superhero Stalin's policies that saved us from the clutches of doom.
Tirelessly sweated in his craft of perfection to protect our sacred country from the enemy who furiously preyed on her, one of those was my uncle whom my dear late father had personally condemned to the Nkvd for his display of adamant hatred of our dear comrade Stalin. Bygones leave it at that, but infallible humans like Stalin only gets delivered to us once a millennium. ,
Glory to Stalin we shout in unison before the firing squad who are duty bound to follow Stalin's wise commands whose task it is to dispose of us. We'll scream at the top of our lungs no matter the situation we are faced with the slogans of the Communist party , thanks Stalin for granting us our memorable childhoods that would have otherwise been ruined if your momentous programme wasn't put in place.
Look at the great quantities of toys that were produced by the glorious workers of your factories for our enjoyment. Minor spelling error, our factories. Which demonstrates the consistency on the part of our comrade Joseph Stalin's unique approach of handling and even outright resolving our problems rather than the dispicable Tsar who ignored them purposely.
The deeds of yours which we can't rival due to the broad scopes of achievements you accomplished attested to and duly noted by history, haven't been in vain as your slogans are proclaimed out loud in the 21st century who keep firmly to the doctrines and principles of Stalinism betrayal being ruled out. With that being said, Glory to our wonderful, generous, courageous, dutiful, honourable, trustworthy, upstanding, truthful, reputable, ethical, venerable, full of integrity, dependable, reliable, noble, respectable, law-abiding, incorruptible, illustrious, virtuous, distinguished, eminent, high-principled, and a loyal servant of the people whose reign through the decades reignited a great sense of patriotic fervour in defense of our leader who places himself at the service of the people
They would have forced me to describe Stalin in the following lines during the Stalinist era. The true words i have reserved for that man can be summed up in 3 words deplorable beyond contempt.
My chinese coworker talked about playing nintendo games on some knockoff console since Nintendo consoles were illegal (can't remember if they still are), so I guess china is keeping this tradition alive.
Doesn't matter to the kids, but I think its pretty shameful on the part of the gov't to steal others ideas.
Don't know where it is but I have the chrome plated, remote-controlled Lunokhod.
I also have East Germany-made model trains in HO scale, the quality is excellent. Don't know who could have purchased this at their time? Could only have been toys for way-more-than-equal party comrades...
old remote controlled toys could get bad sometimes like i had one that took a lot of batteries the antenna was super long but the reach was barely 2 meters .
@@belstar1128 it is wired remote control
@@Damien.D ok i am young so i had some stuff with radio control too
Lol, even children look bored and centralized in the soviet union...
Tsatska sounds like "tchotchke", a word in American English that means a little novelty or gadget, I don't know where the word comes from, could be from Jewish russian migrants?
How about a video on Soviet sex toys?
doesn't exist
@@belstar1128 and you know this how?
I have video on Soviet-era porn, but Socialist central planning had no sex toys quota.
ruclips.net/video/tr0CFQGqSE4/видео.html
@@UshankaShow that would be an easy consumer product for the factory making reciprocating saws, or pneumatic tools, to produce.
@@MichaelJohnson-tw7dq because there was no $èçk$ in the ussr
Maybe the Belarusians are right 😂.
You keep talking about how Soviet you grew up but I am your age and I grew up exactly the same almost.
My parents were not rich.
If anything you ate better.
It's kinda funny, they had ALL the same toys as the U.S. The enemy has this toy, MAKE IT SOVIET STYLE! 😂😂😂
Those dangerous Russian toys from the era, same as in the US, may contain lead paint. Not good for children.
Sir Your you tube shows are informative, but at your back of mind you have distrust for Soviet society
did these toys teach good socialist values ?
I'm fuckin'd glad I'm not from the Soviet Union, their toys sucked compared to the toys I had!