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Read moderately humorous memoir Tatiana Shamyakina As Elite lived in socialism. Ironically, when the daughter of the Soviet legal millionaire (and so was Ivan Shemyakin) writes about the pleasant face of socialism. The author could not decide for his or her (quite achieved by any standards) udn wheel says, or the majority of residents Byelorussian SSR / USSR. Maybe for Cand.Phil.Sci still not opened a terrible secret that the Soviet Union was never a homogenous state. Like any other large country, by the way. Of course, that was declared adnarodnasts, udn but the reality was much mosaic. In 1979, Soviet Armenia for the first time I saw the priest's living matter. He walked the dusty faded cemetery and waving a censer for money. Mogilev to 1989 this picture was even difficult to imagine. By the way, went to church Armenians plus or minus freely and religion was not on the edge of public life as for example, in the east of Belarus. Mogilev only one person openly walked with a large cross around his neck. It was the rabbi of the synagogue of the underground. One of the primary teeth I tore the private clinic re-emigrants from Syria. Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian language does not know the word "re-emigrants." Even if you do not pay attention to the exotic suburbs, anyway adnarodnastsyu and does not smell. We had no relatives in the village, no one from the family did not go on the hunt. On the table was the meat regularly, but in the form of spread (stew with potatoes and vegetables, meat stuffed vegetables etc.). Most often it was a bird or stuffing. Pork pieces appeared sporadically. Usually in the winter, because the father from time to time to help colleagues walked beat boars. First it looks like "ham" can see in ten years. My classmates Andrew Putyata brought a hefty chunk of cooked meat on some of our pachostak. Ham, by the way, if I was not impressed. Sausages, of course, were, but we only on the holiday table. They somehow bought in advance. Plus there was a separate and closed the food distribution system. The composition of those called soldering (also called them "food packages") was not some exquisite: usually Grechnev, udn which regiment sausage, chicken. may have been more highly spiritual and where done, but have not heard about this. Theoretically, buy dry sausage could always stores the cooperative Hanle (kooptorg). But it was worth 9 rubles per kilo. This is normal money. Almost dvudenny udn teacher's udn salary. udn As I understand, it was bought at such events as funerals nezaplyavanyya etc. To a man without any regard from the refrigerator sausage, cut off a piece and ate bread seen visiting one neighbor. His parents worked for myaskambinatse. With vegetables was no special problems, fruit was terrible rarity. Citrus fruits were only bitter udn Cuban grapefruit, which nobody ate, and Georgian mandarins in the Christmas season. Sporadically fetched lemon, and somehow dwindled to keep them as long as possible. In tracing seems to be wrapped. Oranges for sale is seen only in Moscow. The year was 1987 can. Line behind them were not large, but the hands were given some limited quantity. Several times I stood in those lines, and then in the night train to celebrate, can eat a couple of pounds. It all ended quite predictable, but damn strong allergic reaction. About bananas. I do not like them, but the parents from time to time brought from Moscow. We went there often, as many questions related to surdalegiyay surdapedagogikay and could only be solved there. Center in Minsk on Dry developed in the middle of the 80th. Bananas featured in the joke about the son of another udn legal Belarusian millionaire - banker-writer Andrew Dudareva. udn Dudareva son attended Parnate, and his parents ssaboyku inter alia gave bananas. Teachers in some time were forced to hold a conversation with the parents so that they transferred his son on a more modest diet, as the village children (they have had a lot of Parnate) those bananas have never seen, and to share with colleagues Dudrav Jr. wanted. My parents remember the bread lines in the early 1960s. To Shamyakina they dakatsiklisya. Happy childhood. Cheese (plain yellow cost three rubles and kopecks) mom sent me to the bar to buy a camp site "Dnepr". Maybe 1.5 km. from home. After all, nowhere else in our village had no cheese. Public transport did not go there, and for seven years dyatsenka it was a normal distance. Public transport in Mogilev 1970-80 deserves a saga. Some good dishes with relatives and neighbors had ever seen. Of course there were festive Sets, but they usually stood behind the glass. And nothing exceptional in itself is not. Oh, remembered the dishes! The buffet Minsk