Another fine consumer product in the people's paradise. Estée Lauderovna, now available in all the fashionable new hues for 1975 - dun, dung, dim, dank, and mauve.
Your original post prompted me to look further on YouTube for material from Russia. This glorious tidbit delights. If only Tevye hadn't been kicked out of Anatevka, he and his family could have had all this.
It's a rabbit hole, that's for sure. I'll see your festive pastoral number and raise you, in the form of this paean to a buzzing satellite capital - It's "Song of Dushanbe"!
If anyone got thru the iron curtain, Arden would've.
ReplyDeleteI mean, a red door; the comrades would've loved it.
Oh dear god, if your lipstick is sad what chance do you have?
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DeleteSoviet era video artifacts are always... puzzling. Fashion, cars, entertainment. It's puzzling.
ReplyDeleteBut Wendy's put it all in context for us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CaMUfxVJVQ
I'm fascinated by it all; a parallel world, isolated and separate in many ways, and yet a kind of funhouse mirror of the West.
DeleteYour original post prompted me to look further on YouTube for material from Russia. This glorious tidbit delights. If only Tevye hadn't been kicked out of Anatevka, he and his family could have had all this.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dFG99vi8OY
It's a rabbit hole, that's for sure. I'll see your festive pastoral number and raise you, in the form of this paean to a buzzing satellite capital - It's "Song of Dushanbe"!
DeleteBrezhnev's wife was an enthusiastic user of this product. Jx
ReplyDeleteWow. She makes Mrs. Krushchev look like Miss USSR of 1961...
DeleteI've thought and I've thought, and there's just no diplomatic answer to this question...
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