Color PHOTOS of happy Soviet childhood

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Despite all the hardships of the USSR, most Russians do remember having a happy, innocent childhood. We put together a collection of nostalgic photos from the iconic 1950s-1960s Soviet ‘Ogonyok’ magazine that prove this. See for yourself!

A young cadet happily shopping after receiving his very first salary, 1951 

Six-year-old Marina sewing the words ‘Stalin is Peace’ onto a napkin, 1951

Girls giving flowers to their favorite teacher, 1952

A school radio team reading the daily bulletin, 1953

Art students working in a studio at the Leningrad art school, 1954

Innocent kindergarten kids watering flowers, 1953

A girl at piano practice lessons at the state conservatory music school, 1953

A senior school student preparing before a school theater performance, 1953

School students busy making biology learning aids on their own, 1953

Children from a Kiev kindergarten marching their way to P.E., 1953

Kids reading in a new library, 1955

Children enjoying a puppet theater show in kindergarten, 1955

Kids playing with a piano in the nursery of the spinning and knitting mill in Tbilisi, 1957

Kids laughing at a kindergarten in Pamir, Tajik SSR, 1957

Two student interns at job training, 1958

Students studying during literary and creative classes at a Taganrog school, 1960

A young girl with a young, sprouting tree, 1960

Young readers relaxing outside with their books, 1960

In the ‘Cosmos’ (‘Space’) hall of the State Polytechnic Museum in Moscow, 1963

Kids staging a ‘space’ act at a Kindergarten in Siberia, 1964

Pioneers receiving their red ribbons at the Lenin Museum in Kiev, 1964

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