There was no money for expensive entertainment or trips to exotic resorts, so people found joy and pleasure in the most ordinary things.
1. Eating ice cream in the park
2. Drinking a soda from a vending machine
3. Quenching one’s thirst with cold kvass from a street vendor
4. Cooling off with water from the street truck sprinkler
Olga Ignatovich/Museum of Moscow
5. Singing songs around the campfire
6. Eating an entire watermelon!
Yury Abramochkin/Yury Abramochkin archive
7. Blowing on a dandelion
8. Making a wreath out of wildflowers
9. Fishing
10. Camping
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