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Understanding 9/11tv Novogodnyaya skazka dlya vzroslikh NTV January 14, 2024 5:00am-5:51am MSK
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the revolutions were repressed under two headings: religious and bourgeois. fun bogateev. what you and i are celebrating is our favorite holiday. the new year, the only one, as we think, that has survived, is, in fact, the same as all the others, november 7 and march 8, soviet. christmas is now red, like everything else for the bolsheviks. komsomol members try to make fun of the holiday, run around with torches in the dark, can’t see anything, put on clumsy scenes with the endowment of clergy, read long reports, it turns out dull, they came up with a new one the calendar, sunday was completely cancelled, a week of six days instead of color names, the calendar makes it clear to the eyes, where are the old holidays, where is christmas, it wasn’t even banned, it was hidden. like a sharper hides an ace
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of trumps in his sleeve. instead of a christmas tree there is an elegant stick. in 1929 , the magazine “atheist” suggested making a christmas tree from a hanger. there are even detailed instructions here. let's try to collect it. this same atheist declares that by throwing icons out the window, we hide god behind the christmas tree. and that a child’s religiosity begins with the christmas tree, which energizes. faith in mysterious forces, so, it is also said here that it is advisable to decorate the building with selected greenery, at least at a funeral, these are dubious jokes, jokes are jokes, but christmas trees are actually illegal, in december twenty-eighth the people's commissariat of agriculture is distributing a compass about prohibition .. .
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sale of green space in connection with religious rituals and customs, the violator is fined 100 rubles. or a month of forced labor. there are children's pickets on the streets, parents, don't confuse us, don't make christmas and a christmas tree. they say however, in the absence of a christmas tree, children secretly went home to decorate indoor plants, decorate, admire, play, but by the evening they will definitely take off all the toys and put a flower on the floor. on december 23, 1935, the police routinely seized christmas trees at the arbatsky market in moscow. on december 28, surprised policemen, with the whole country with them, read a short article in truth: let's organize a good christmas tree for the children for the new year. some left- wingers denounced this children's entertainment as a bourgeois undertaking - writes the main newspaper countries. in schools, in orphanages. in the palaces
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of pioneers, in children's clubs, there should be a children's christmas tree everywhere. in leningrad, the ill-fated manager of house number three in the smolninsky district is holding a conversation about the benefits of a christmas tree; he successfully burned it on the eve of the publication of an article in pravda. december 28 - 4 days before the holiday, the period is still insignificant, in a country where christmas tree decorations have not been made for 10 years, the komsomol truth is complaining about tomorrow, the proposal was met with great enthusiasm, but no one is prepared for it... the state is prepared with an iron ideology plans for iron smelting for years to come, the population, accustomed to clear directives, suddenly without preparation, without explanation, at the last moment such an impromptu, everyone is in a stupid position, yesterday they demanded that no christmas trees be allowed, and today they are mobilizing a car to transport christmas trees to the city and horse-drawn transport, by the middle of the day it will be possible to bring it to moscow and distribute it to shops and markets until...
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and in the eliseevsky grocery store , a year's supply of walnuts for decorations was sold in 3 days. in the children's world they sell until 11 evenings, a special team has been assigned to help sellers. revenue soars from the usual 8. rubles to 50, for some reason komsomol dolls are scattered as gifts - horses, but the director of the wax store, comrade voronin, then complained. range. did not satisfy buyers,
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i had to listen to many reproaches for my inability to trade. the teachers are confused, as if something might not work out, they are asking for guidelines, they are waiting for methodological instructions, how to work out the tree, how... to build a program, they ask. have fun, avoid symbolism revolutionary times and all kinds of reports. here are all the festive installations of the tskvksm. aren’t teachers trained for this? they know how to lead a formation, put them in pairs, line them up, they were not taught to decorate the christmas tree, they were taught that the christmas tree is harmful. here's what comes out: boxes with... board games were hung high on the tree, in the most visible place, they write about the results of the festivities, and add: boxes of board games are not decorations, decorations should shine, sparkle, glow with their elegance, but on
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december 30, for now across the country in despair quickly they hang chessboards on the christmas trees, an incredible first in the ussr, a real chic christmas tree is lit, no, not in moscow, in kharkov, we have a lot left from that first christmas tree, but you can see how elegant it is and the star on the top of the head, children in amazing fancy dress costumes, here is a photo: chipaev, petka and furmanov, chinese women, the actual christmas tree, you can’t do this in 2 days, and no one did it for 2 days, they knew in advance, the article in truth was simply signed without ranks, p postyshev, with the ranks it turns out to be the secretary of the central committee of the communist party of the soviet union, the second secretary of the communist party ukraine, he then asked stalin about the christmas tree, apparently he had the right to do so. that autumn, the palace of pioneers, the first of its kind in the country, opened in kharkov, a fountain and winter garden of the former assembly of the nobility. never-before-seen toys, previously unknown models, here is everything that was never even dreamed of, and
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it was all done with the active efforts of pavel postoshev. even at the opening, the palace was given his name and a bust was placed in the hall. the palace is an example for...
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in the ussr, the right of children to a miracle granted by the authorities. what did they see, these children for 5, 10, 12 years of their lives, they hardly saw their parents, those work hard in factories or construction. the country is undergoing industrialization; industry is urgently needed; when people are not working hard, they are looking for food. in the country, collectivization is transforming agriculture from private to public, peasants are resisting, slaughtering livestock, and fleeing to the cities. since the twenty -seventh there has been a commodity crisis in the soviet union, in the twenty-eighth bread cards appeared, there are long lines in stores, parents hardly sleep, at 2:30 in the morning they go
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to grocery stores with pillows - reports in twenty ninth, the trade union of donbass miners, in the thirtieth, cards for meat, out of the 160 million population of the country, only... 14 million are industrial workers, we feed our children with bread, salt, we ourselves only eat bread, they write from the ivanovo region, raw black bread, cabbage soup, herring, here is the smell of childhood of the first five-year plan, there are tangerines, chocolate, pine needles, the flickering of candles, the shine of buzzards, the effect cannot be imagined, cannot be described, we today have never experienced this, 2 years before the christmas tree there was famine, a real, terrible, post-soviet count... they call it 7 million dead, bread cards canceled only a year ago, 3 months before the christmas tree , cards for meat, fish and potatoes are canceled. products appear in stores without cards, for money. this is some kind of new life, completely forgotten by some, completely unknown to others.
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a month and a half before the christmas tree, stalin throws out the phrase: “hit has become better to speak.” the phrase becomes a slogan, a guide. on the seventeenth worked as an excellent excuse for all adversity, socialist bondage turned out to be cooler than the tsarist one, a reboot is needed, so stalin’s speech is replete with words of abundance, material wealth, prosperity, just yesterday they were abusive, now these words are circulated in newspapers, picked up by agitators, the idea with the tree is very opportune, just yesterday it was unnecessary and harmful, today the tree is a holiday of beauty and joy, of islamic
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uzbekistan, where they have never celebrated the new year, much less christmas. truly, if anyone made the holiday popular, it was the soviet politburo, it really came into its own. i propose to raise a glass to the great stalin, who leads us along the bright road to communism. and they picked it up, not to say that the new year is not we met before, we met, but without fanfare, kileina, this time right in stakhanovsky. moscow trade is on high alert, the bakery trust has been ordered to increase the production of high-grade bakery products, and the director of the mikayan meat processing plant has been ordered to increase the production of sausages. the leningrad restaurant europe stuns with its new year's menu. belminertalet perch minuti julien is the financier, these are
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hot appetizers. the leningrad cinema house is on sale in europe for 10,000 rubles. no wine. for the first time, non-families will sit at the table, teams. tables and even entire rooms of the best restaurants are rapidly being booked. the northern shipbuilding works is planning for the new year for 200 people at the moskovskaya hotel and even a trade union of housing workers in the amount of 300 people. i was also going to go on a spree in the restaurant of the oktyabrskaya hotel. christmas tree. soviet new year tree, as it is written in the newspapers. it turns out that the prophet of the revolution, ilyich, celebrated it himself. the story “christmas tree in sokolniki” appears; a filmstrip was soon made from it. remember this entertainment? i will show you now. a forestry school was opened on the outskirts of moscow in sokolniki during the civil war.
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lenin came to this school to visit the children for the new year holiday. the guys decorated the christmas tree and began to wait for ilyach. evening came and a snowstorm arose. so , over the noise of the snowstorm, no one heard a car drive up to the school, and vladimir ilyich got out of the car. and here we stop. came out, he survived a daring robbery, ilyich became a victim of his own revolution, so lenin rides in a car, drives, drives, suddenly from snowdrifts of people with mausers , i’ll shoot as soon as possible, the driver slows down, and some big guy pulls lenin out by the sleeve, this is a misunderstanding, i’m lenin, here’s my document, and big man answers in the spirit that he
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doesn’t care at all, he takes the document and doesn’t looking at it, he hides it in his pocket. lenin has a pistol at each temple. the big guy shakes out the confused leader. browning, the wallet, throws the driver out of the car and the gang drives off into the night. this is exactly how lenin’s christmas adventures were first described by his secretary bond bruevich. a separate book was published in thirty first year, it’s called an attack on lenin, but it’s not a christmas tree in sokolniki. history was simply adapted to the occasion. a christmas tree was placed in the center, the bandits were removed from the frame . but the tree still took place. ilyich had a lot of fun at the holiday and it didn’t matter. that the leader is playing blind man's buff, while in the capital there is a raid with victims among security officers and
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police officers, they are looking for a stolen car, the main thing is that the christmas tree took place and, therefore , an excellent ideological confirmation of the new holiday was obtained. the soviet new year is a public holiday, and teachers are not waiting in vain manuals, we need a model, rules, rituals, usually they take decades to develop, the people's commissariat of education develops them according to... a collection of christmas trees, coming out next year, about the meaning of the christmas tree for our children, how to decorate the christmas tree, whether to give mummers and what kind, is it possible? yolka changes into soviet clothes. instead of
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wiffle. an eight-pointed star, a soviet five-pointed one, just asking for it. tender angels, clay heads, fold their wings, leave the holiday, their place on the branches is taken by a new heavenly inhabitant, an airplane. not silver skates, pistol, fabulous silver harrow. who would have thought that this belonged on the christmas tree? elderly arlikin. a wadded red army soldier on skis is changing, he has company, a sailor-signalman. the old world is leaving the tree, a replacement has been found for everything. the nativity scene with the baby jesus and the magi, the very heart of the holiday, gives way to papanin on the ice floe. at the end of 1936, soviet planes delivered
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a drifting expedition to the north pole for the first time. people, a tent, a radio and... and in the morning in the newspaper in december on the christmas tree, the zis-110 car was released in 1945, real and christmas. in fifty-seventh - the first soviet satellite in space, the second on a christmas tree, the first animal in earth's orbit, here it is a husky, flying in a silver rocket, a man in space on an astronaut's christmas tree, and even khrushchev's corn. the queen of the fields has found its place, a soviet christmas tree, a chronicle in toys. and we thought he was always there, kind grandfather frost, without whom the tree would not light up, there would be no gifts, but no, no one heard the imperious ringing of his bells in that first new year’s winter. the future ruler of children's thoughts only looked once to a modest rural kindergarten and had
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no effect. the children mistook him for a local. the collective farm grandfather, we know him. the kids said, a year has passed, this is one of the first official meetings of the old man with the children, they are openly afraid of him, embarrassment is everywhere, in groups of four-year-old children , methodologists note, santa claus came in with a stick, six children burst into tears, santa claus’s beard and mustache were removed, but the children didn’t come up, no one wanted to take the gift, the path of santa claus to the heart of a child is a teronist, the children don’t know anything about him they know, the parents can’t tell anything, in their childhood there was no such grandfather even outside the window at the master’s christmas trees, unless in a series of mummers, in sheepskin coats inside out, this modest worker of yuletide fun was encountered, but the revolution turned everything upside down, the quiet grandfather moved to the first role, his power is to give gifts to the holiday itself, lighting the christmas tree, soviet power, adults are also a surprise, champagne,
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now an indispensable companion of the new year, one might say its loud-mouthed, loud-mouthed. exiled by the revolution to a distant shelf as a class alien, the historical consumer fled or destroyed, and the proletariat prefers it hot, expensive, a bottle is 25 rubles, and there is less sense from it than from an ordinary half-liter for six, therefore the current pride of domestic winemaking, the tsarist obrao durso plant near novorossiysk, lives in a stupor modestly, not festively, here in the summer on the thirty-sixth resolution of the savnarkom and the central committee of the communist party on... champagne is a sign of material well-being, a sign of prosperity, explains stalin. the stakhanovites get a lot, but if they want champagne, they wonder if they can get it. it turns out: there is prosperity, but there are no signs of it, the country's leaders want to turn the drink of millionaires into the drink of millions, they demand more of it, cheaper, but
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how? the classic production of champagne has not changed for centuries, so they shake bottles of zria. ripening mysteriously in its dark glass. a dark matter, a subtle one. for 3 years a mysterious transformation has been going on, for 3 years the champagne has been ripening in silence and suddenly... the salvo to the stalinist government will be given twice as much in a year, the solution comes from here, izobrau durson. the products of this chemical workshop you
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you can try without any worries. champagne is stored in the factory's tanks. that’s right, no remilages, no three years, 26 days and it’s ready. not to say boiler, but tank, industrial, soviet champagne. this is what obraudyurso’s scientific director anton frolov-bagreev suggested. try it, it tastes great. the descendants of these bagreev reservoirs, they are called acrotophores, are working now, already in their fourth generation. the current one differs from the previous ones like a metropolis from a small town, instead of water pumps, a pipeline, more precisely, a wine pipeline. in the jungle of these pipes are the ingredients of future magic. heading to steel skyscrapers, these are them, acrotophores, the main sacrament is in them, the wine becomes sparkling, 80 thousand bottles fit in one, the romance of new year's eve is
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a product of high technology. and it starts from scratch. people's commissar of the food industry anastas mikayan complains that the factories are abandoned, many are overgrown with weeds, but ryana has taken over. in order to increase vineyards , cotton and tobacco crops are moved to other places. from vegetable to viticultural entire collective farms will be repurposed. the workforce is provided by the nkvd. families are being relocated to new collective farms. in 1937 alone , 500 of them were needed. in kharkov , it’s unheard of for a champagne wine factory to give away an unfinished one. bakery in 5 years, the annual production of champagne will reach 12 million bottles. frolov bagreev becomes the main champagne maker of the country
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for his industrial production method , receives the stalin prize in the most seemingly inappropriate year for this, forty-two, and champagne factories appear in the most seemingly unexpected places. so that our siberian champagne will boil on your festive tables in the new year. in general, champagne has come a long way, all this , however, later, while production is just getting established, and stakhanovites are unobtrusively accustomed to a playful drink: with soviet champagne, welcome the merry new stakhanov year, this merry new year, the first real one, with the first santa claus, with the first champagne was the thirty-seventh. only a year has passed, and no one remembered pavel postoshev, on the street christmas tree gratitude to another person, wherever they put up a christmas tree in kindergarten or for little ones,
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he is here, or at school, he also shades the holiday with his presence. 80 years ago, moscow children for the first time go to the big christmas tree celebration in the columned hall, they come in, now they see it for the first time, huge, twelve meters high, it begins, the script of this very first, future main christmas tree of the country has still been preserved, the beginning of the beginning, the origins of our soviet magic , what's in it? thanks to comrade stalin for a happy, joyful childhood, here the main slogan of the holiday, typed on a blue carbon copy. so in carbon copy round dances, they then went on these new years, parsley pranks, funny little animals, never seen before or since, toys and
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a portrait, the size of a tree. stalin, the great stalin is with them, such a time, another week in the columned hall, a completely different decoration, a table under the cloth, a military college. the february-march plenum of the central committee declares a witch hunt, and pavel postushev is lowered from the career ladder and has not found his bearings. in the modest position of kuibyshevsky's secretary
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regional committee this is the current samara, postoshev is trying to regain trust, looking for enemies, stupid, literally. trodsky's profile is found on boxes of matches, matches disappear from the shelves. before the school year there were no notebooks to be found, again he discovered something. in the local newspaper, in budyonny’s photo, there is a star, a swastika, which allowed counter-revolutionary distortions. in the amateur sausage, in the cut, there is also a swastika, a man, yesterday, riding in the same car with the leader, today, in the hope of supreme mercy, studies the stupid sausage, this is madness, this the diagnosis is that there is sausage, people, punitive expeditions are traveling around the region, this is postoshev’s know-how, one visit, fifty detainees,
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in six months his leadership. 4,540 arrests, almost 5,000 executions. the next captivity of the central committee is being dealt with by postoshev himself. i didn’t please with zeal. inflection. why are you surprised, he just answers all the questions. as a result, postoshev was sent into the same meat grinder that he himself so obligingly turned through. marvelous pictures of front-line moscow. december '41, the enemy is not far away, 150 kilometers, but... driven away, and christmas trees are being sold, and most importantly , bought, posters promise new year's concerts, a fund for the construction of tanks, the toy trade is open, the record department is full, the saleswoman is bundled up, there is no heat or light in moscow, but the holiday is coming into its own. leningrad frozen in the mountain, the fourth month of the blockade, the last of the starvation rations, 125 g of not very edible
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bread for children and dependents. in the city the majority, queues since the night, in the queues there is talk about food about the dead, there are a lot of the latter, almost 53 thousand people are carried away december, the first ones are not there at all, not a blade of grass, leningraders write in their diaries. on december 22, the city had its first officially recorded case of cannibalism. the next day, the city council orders the organization of new year trees for children. an unexpected decision was dictated. eyepiece from the center. the presidium of the trade union council sent out a letter with new year's recommendations to cities and towns. just 6 years ago, the authorities looked at this tree with a scythe. now in the war, the new year tree, its magic wand, an uplifting stimulus, almost the only symbol of hope in a country dilapidated by war. celebration on the front line in the rear. christmas trees are put up in fiery
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sevastopol and icy leningrad, no need for orders from above, in a frozen leningrad apartment, right on both, the grandfather painted with school paints, the paints were taken from his grandson. i could re-glue them with them anyway after the war, my grandfather drew a christmas tree, a nail in a branch, a toy on a nail. they shimmered so much
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that the tree seemed to come to life, the grandson later remembered the distinct aroma of pine needles, and then a real new year's miracle happened. in a box with christmas tree decorations there were silver plated walnuts and sweets. crayfish neck and bear in the north. all this wealth has been stored there since the past. have a peaceful new year. many leningraders who found the strength to celebrate the new forty- second year spoke about such a miracle. and my grandfather passed away 3 months later. children's parties took place in a dying city, the christmas trees were set up, even decorated, there was no energy for round dances. the highlight of the program is an unimaginable three-course meal, as stated in the decree, without cutting coupons from food cards. this feast,
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thin soups. tiny cutlets with spoon buckwheat and fantastic jelly, the children of the siege remember all their lives. when the city council decided on these children's lunches, there were 4 days of flour left in leningrad, but the christmas tree... this is no longer applicable, it is impossible without it, unthinkable. children begin to write to santa claus, the letters arrive and are carefully stored. santa claus doesn't even allow you to touch them without gloves. the earliest preserved, post-war ones, are still the same military triangles, only instead of a field postal number, the address is moscow, a hall of columns. santa claus. santa claus, i really want visit the house of unions at the christmas tree. our mother has three children, and she can’t get us tickets for the christmas tree. dad died at the front.
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i beg you very much, do not refuse my request. goodbye, nadya deeva. dear grandfather, i really want to attend the christmas tree in the column hall of the house of the unions at least once. but my mother can’t buy me a ticket because she doesn’t have money, santa claus, i have no one else to ask, my dad died at the front, and i live with my mother, my mother works as a cabbie, servicing 72 machines, my dad was killed at the front, was killed for his homeland near berlin, was shell-shocked twice, dad, he died at the front, and i won’t have a christmas tree at home, my dad died near moscow, i live with my mom, grandfather frost, please! please send me a ticket as soon as possible, the nazis killed my dad in 1941, and if he had been alive, he would definitely have bought me a ticket, half my life during the war, nothing to
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spare, and no dolls, no cars, nothing military children don’t ask, just to see the christmas tree, to see santa claus, here it is, this christmas tree of the year forty-seven, the ultimate dream, children in all the best and you’re welcome. stalin's death in '53 opens for the kremlin christmas tree. for 35 years now, the seat of soviet power has been closed to mere mortals. the first to enter the impregnable citadel is the new year tree. a long line
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following the tsarkol - these are the first ordinary soviet citizens to set foot on the land of the soviet shrine. they are going to the new year's party. 54 are greeted in the st. george hall of the large kremlin palace . it doesn’t resemble anything. the kremlin christmas tree , the soviet kingdom, the proletarian star on the royal scepter. here she is the brightest star. may the unquenchable fire be scarlet
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stars, will light the lights of our christmas tree. they turn the story into a fairy tale. here come the future interplanetary captains. congress of the cpsu declared that in 20 years we will live under communism, that’s what’s on the tree, this is my first year out of twenty, you
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should go communism with me, the party said, you will live under communism, and since she said it, so be it, santa claus guarantees. the people and the party are united in their attitude towards this holiday, each in their own way, of course, but there is no other celebration in the country for which everyone is preparing so earnestly. from ministries to kindergartens. who none of you jumped around with your palms pressed to your chest in a cap with ears and a pompom on your pants? who did not, as they were taught, pull on a sock in a czech shoe embroidered with tinsel? snowflakes are an indispensable stage in the formation of a soviet citizen. the new year's party in the garden is an important milestone in our childhood - a soviet holiday accord. our roles are not written by ancient traditions, but by soviet teachers. it was they who, when re-composing the new year's ritual, compiled the nomenclature.
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snowflake squirrels, that’s how that generation dances, it even outlived its state gave birth, with one but grandiose reform , the snow maiden, in the fifties she no longer comes with santa claus, she is now ours, local, snow maiden, i call my friends, not narrowing, not scary, i’m not afraid of winter in yuga, i’m even friends with her . father frost has relatives abroad, santa claus or the finnish jolupukki, who in the past also dressed up like our grandfather. the snow maiden is alone in the whole world; there is nothing like it in any country. the snow maiden from another fairy tale, molded from snow and melted over the june bonfire of ivan kupala, she is a symbol change of winter to summer, meteorological myth. from this fairy tale, in the year thirty-seven , the snow maiden is urgently called to the hall of columns to... help the debutant santa claus. everyone remembers his unsuccessful appearance last year,
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the fear of the kids’ tears. the snow maiden is appointed as a charming intermediary between kosmat’s grandfather and the children. they hastily come up with a relationship, granddaughter. we still don't know the parents. snegurka lives in an almost circus role as the magician's assistant for 20 years, when suddenly girls from the class or group begin to be chosen for her role. what grows on a christmas tree, cones and needles. of all the children's holidays, new year's is in the memory of soviet girls, forever, any woman of any age will say whether she escaped into the snow maiden or remained in the snowflakes. olenka, olenka, what happened? olya, why are you crying? why wasn't she allowed to play? the competition did not pass. in schools there is talk and speculation about who is the snow maiden? will be on the christmas tree, the fire board formulated the essence. someday, any
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soviet mother of a girl would open a closet like this and choose a victim. the snow maiden needs a costume, the industry doesn’t produce ready-made ones, but the soviet snow maiden is both a beauty contest and a talent contest, the first intrigues, the first gossip, the first female victory. family prices are placed on her mother’s altar. a few of your own decorations, your grandmother’s tablecloth, but most often the snow maiden’s fur coat goes with the main female heirloom, a wedding dress, you will be the snow maiden, the most, most beautiful, new year’s eve, the favorite holiday in every family.
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he is met at all costs, wherever they are. the miners are right at the mine face where the new year's shift found them. submariners right in the boat on combat duty with a homemade cake from the galley. christmas trees are transported by plane to winterers at the north pole. santa claus is delivered by helicopter to oil workers. people celebrating the new year at work is now a reason for... the pride of the state, and what is there for the compassion of citizens? the only non- political new year is the country's favorite holiday. in the microdistricts of khrushchev's new buildings, kemerovo, tyumen, pern, voronezh, novosibirs, streets named new year's appear. and these christmas trees on the balconies, prepared in advance. the holiday is getting wider, and it’s getting more and more difficult to prepare. in such a hurry, even a stick seems like a christmas tree. for grabs. where now without a festive tree? in the mid-fifties
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, the new year's fever began, which has not stopped to this day. the new year is like going into space. pre-launch efforts are full of despair; it’s impossible to get everything done. in the sixties , the state took an amazing initiative. on the phone, santa claus guessed what kind of doll galya was dreaming of. santa claus on call , a new product appeared in the sixtieth year and spread. throughout the soviet union. the guys probably won't find out the secret soon. new year's santa claus comes with gifts to the children of tallinn at the request of their parents. there are a lot of orders. santa clauses walk the streets in flocks. they ride on trolleybuses and generally indulge themselves. surprisingly,
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the household services company is responsible for the grandfather’s appearance in the apartment. in moscow, for example, the zorya company, in leningrad - nevskie zori. those who. they will wash the windows according to the price list; those who repair the tv or vacuum cleaner; those who clean the carpets will send santa claus. santa claus is now a household service, the same as professional ironing of shirts. in sixty -two, a new service, the festive table, is being continued on tv. glasses here and glasses there, toasts here and toasts there. the new sixty-third country is greeting the new sixty-third with a sparkle for the first time. the now indispensable part of the holiday was not created for him at all: the television cafe on ogonyok opened in april sixty-two, it worked every saturday, decorating the canon of the only day off sunday in the country. they showed
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the light on other holidays, november 7, march 8, new year's was distinguished only by a modest christmas tree, denozoil serpentine, but other issues came to naught. there is only one left, the main one. it’s as if the new year has taken away the missing piece. sounds over the country now. we are with you at this joyful hour. you have us. the blue light seemed to balance the public and family holiday. he held an open one between them. transparent, but border. the outgoing seventies introduced another television tradition. dear comrades and friends. the last minutes of 1970 are coming. the general secretary of the cpsu central committee addressed us. in the last minutes of the outgoing year, he summed up its results and
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he said that next year it would be even better, this was repeated every year, but let’s be honest, did anyone listen to this? officially. on january 1 at 17:45, central television showed a new film by ildar ryazanov and emil braginsky, music by mikail triverdiev. andrey mikhkov, singing in the voice of sergei nikitin. barbara brylska, singing in the voice of alla pugacheva. train to tikhoretskaya. cute, furniture, lada, salads, and a million little things, then funny, now women in hats, the list goes on, the pinnacle of new year's creativity no one
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i tried to repeat it, it repeats itself from year to year, the irony of fate or with light steam became the eve of the holiday, this is our new year's movie... housewives, looking at the screen, bake pies and prepare the main dish of the new year's table, delicious, everyone knows this recipe, but it cannot be found in any cookbook, the cult soviet book about tasty and healthy food is silent, the official set of professional cooking recipes is also silent, only pale semblances, meat salad, salad with sausage or ham, maximum salad metropolitan, but... the olivier salad is simple and understandable to everyone. the tsar of soviet cuisine lived in the soviet union without registration. where and when did it come to our holiday? it is believed that it was created by the french chef lucien levier at the beginning of the 20th century in
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the moscow restaurant erometage, but there are hazel grouse and crayfish necks, and here we have peas and doctor’s sausage, it seems like... christmas and the soviet new year, only the name was passed on as a symbol the pinnacle of cooking. and someone doesn't know the name. for many soviet citizens, salad as such, this is him, olivier. among the people it is festive, guest, favorite and mayonnaise. industrial mayonnaise appeared in the country almost with the new year. and without mayonnaise, what is olivier? the sauce has been spreading across the country since the mid-fifties, city fat plants
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are installing mayonnaise lines one after another. after 10 years, mayonnaise was mastered. people call him manes and even manes, sensing a typical soviet abbreviation in the strange name. that's when olivier time could begin. there's nothing more to this traditional dish. half a century, that's how much it is now this mayonnaise, and previously one jar of creamy pogost, gray in color in fact, the subject of the new year's rush of queues in stores standing on oats, will suddenly be thrown away, this is the name for the short-term appearance on sale of products usually not supplied to stores. scarcity is what makes olivier a superdish. olivier is generally a collection of soviet shortages, for example, in the city in olivier they prefer to put meat or chicken,
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because they have to run after them, in the village , on the contrary, they want sausage, because it is more difficult to get it, the eternal soviet shortage of everything turns into... ordinary canned peas cannot be obtained into a prestigious product, especially hungarian ones, and without peas olivier is like without mayonnaise. do you remember your mother’s stash, or maybe you made it yourself? who dares to just eat smoked sausage on an ordinary day? whoever dared to open sprats in the bustle, whoever dared, was on...
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truly the only best and most cheerful day in the endless series of days of the great soviet lent, the holiday of holidays.
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“buklov, no, the return of the living-dead, it was you who killed my wife, that’s all, what kind of you are stingy, perhaps, but unlike me, you will die in the zone, you know, in the zone it’s better than flying off the bumper at a speed of 100 km/h, you should have seen how..." her packages flew apart, i’m sorry that you was left without dinner.
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