For the Kids of the 80s: a Nostalgic Video About a Soviet Childhood
A nostalgic video about our childhood in the Soviet 80s. Remember metal toys, the Elektronika handheld game, hopscotch and elastics, chewing gum wrappers, friendship questionnaires and the red pioneer scarf?
The clip brings together everything that filled our days in the courtyard and at school. Watch it and remember how it was. The pictures need no translation.
What comes to mind
- Toys: a metal construction set with nuts and a spanner, toy soldiers, tanks.
- Elektronika: a pocket LCD game where a wolf catches eggs in a basket. “Nu, pogodi!” (Elektronika IM-02) went on sale in 1984 and cost 25 roubles – every schoolkid’s dream.
- Courtyard games: hopscotch, elastics (jumping over a stretched rubber band) and dodgeball.
- Gum and wrappers: the first chewing gums were a rarity, and the little Love is, Turbo and Donald inserts were collected, swapped and won in games. To be fair, Turbo and Love is only became truly widespread in the early 90s.
- Collections: pocket calendars, stamps, pin badges.
- Sweets: the “Petushok” cockerel lollipop on a stick.
- School: friendship questionnaires in a notebook, the Little Octobrist star badge and the pioneer scarf.
Such pleasant memories of those times! Of course, we couldn’t wait to grow up – back then we had no idea that everything would change.
Which of these did you have? Tell us in the comments what you played in your courtyard.