Do any of you own anything that was made in the Soviet Union?

[TheMightyFavog]

I used to have one of those Wool Winter Military hats. I ended up donating it to a local community theatre company. It was the warmest winter hat I ever owned. days like this make me wish I never gave it away.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. a few bottles of vodka

[SayWhatYo]

2. Just a suitcase nuke I got off ebay...

How did you get the military hat you had? I'm always interested in products of the soviet union, mostly because I've never seen anything. I was recently reading the forums at http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/ and they were talking about the stuff they created...

[TheMightyFavog]

5. I actually found the hat in a St. Vincent DuPaul store in Marinette, WI.

You never know what kind of cool stuff you'll find at places like that. It was just the hat, It didn't have the red star device.

[Sequoia]

62. But red stars are all the rage these days:

Heinkein bottles

Macy's logo

Red star on kids school paper

China

[TheMightyFavog]

3. Is it T-34 brand Vodka?

For those nights when you want to get tanked!

[mainegreen]

4. A Red Soviet Star plastic puzzle thingy

[UncleSepp]

6. I have a samovar and a toy tank.

Also a medium format camera. The winter hat, a giant furry thing, I gave away a long time ago. I wish I hadn't.

[TheMightyFavog]

12. I've heard good things about those old Soviet Cameras

Although, I haven't shot on film in ages, and I love my new Kodak Z710.

[Hardrada]

7. Several LP's on the MELODIYA label

Eugen Onegin and also songs of the Red Army Chorus. They do a great version of "Tipperary."

[Manifestor_of_Light]

51. And there were only two symphony conductors.

Kiril Kondrashin and Gennady Rodzdesventsky (spelling is approximate).

In the present day, Dmitri Shostakovich's son is a conductor and his grandson is a pianist.

Not sure if Rachmaninoff and Prokofief had any offspring.

Hell, Igor Stravinsky was still alive when I was in high school.

[ronnykmarshall]

8. I have a red star with that thar commie symbol on it.

I don't know if it's from the USSR or not, but it made for a lovely conversation piece on my motorcycle jacket.

[Aristus]

9. A Soviet-style tank crew helmet. (Although I think it was actually

manufactured in East Germany.) A Soviet Army tank officer's dress uniform. A military winter greatcoat. A number of minor Soviet medals and insignia. And a few thin, cheap, tinny worthless kopecks in a coin dish somewhere...

[TimeChaser]

10. That reminds me...

When I was little, the house accross the street was a Salvation Army house. Now, I was about 4 at the time, and I always called it the Soviet Union house.

[MoseyWalker]

11. I don't even own anything made in the US

Is that even possible, I mean, when the soviet union was around, Taiwan was king of consumer crap.

[Xipe Totec]

13. Samovar, Matrioshkas,

and a whole album of these:

[SayWhatYo]

15. Those must be worth a lot, right?

[Xipe Totec]

17. Probably not - yet

but maybe someday they will.

They are more of sentimental value; to remember pen-pals who sent them to me back in the bad old days of the cold war.

[ruiner4u]

26. my aunt brought me back a book of old ussr stamps like those...

shes a flight attendant and has been doing the moscow run for years... Uhm she brought me back a CCCP watch, but im skeptical about it. It says made in ussr at the bottom <in english...:)>...

I love russian folk art and probably have about 2 dozen nesting doll sets.. My favorite is a set of Lenin smallest> to Yeltsin...

Every few months she brings me something neat from there..

[Xipe Totec]

39. That's cool!

you'r aunt is a great person! :hi:

[Crabby Appleton]

14. a caviar spoon

[QMPMom]

16. Yes. My husband bought some books when he was there

several years ago. Old Soviet propaganda books.

[SPKrazy]

18. Should Ask lala_rawraw

she was born in the Ukraine in the former Soviet Union

:shrug:

[LostInAnomie]

19. A couple ICBM's.

I need to get rid of 'em though. They're taking up a lot of room in the garage.

[Whoa_Nelly]

20. Have a hand-painted lacquer trinket box

My dad bought it for me about 30+ years ago on one of his tourist trips to Russia. It's a Georgian hand-painted box, and I love it. Still have the receipt and duty stamp on it, too

[mockmonkey]

21. Nucci boxer briefs

not bad actually. When I lived in Central Wisconsin my neighbors were various Russians that were brought to this country to work on farms. I liked hearing them speak in Russian.

[Little Wing]

22. My titanium chastity belt

Clearly they had abundant supplies

[malmapus]

23. Big Muff and Small Stone?

Two of my stomp boxes for my guitar came in wooden boxes with that cryptic Russian writing all over them :D

[femmocrat]

24. We had one of those "submarine" clocks.

It stopped working and we took it for repairs. It was unrepairable. Figures.

[kedrys]

25. Matrioshka dolls my uncle brought back when I was a tadpole

Still have them to this day.

[MazeRat7]

27. Yup, Binoculars. Everything in Cyrillic and from the code war era. -nt

[bridgit]

28. we had little cookie/pastry things from Belarus, but we already ate'em...

:9

[Tennesee Jed]

29. I got that McCartney album from the 80's

[Hissyspit]

32. Oh, yeah. Me too! Welcome to DU!

:patriot:

:toast:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. My Latvian cousins sent me some books and also a couple of LPs

And somewhere I have a battery-less flashlight that you operate manually by repeated pressing a lever.

[Hissyspit]

31. I've got some military pin. I used it about 15 years ago as part of my

Gorbachev Halloween costume.

[Lars39]

33. We have a watch.

Souvenir from somebody that got over there.

[sakabatou]

34. Yes!

My late great-grandfather's siddur.

[InternalDialogue]

35. I've got a couple chunks of the Berlin Wall.

The chances are pretty good the concrete was made in East Germany, but it might have come from the vast cement mines in Siberia.

[rockymountaindem]

36. I collect antique military medals, so yes

I have the following in my collection:


Order of the Great Patriotic War, Second Class (1985 re-issue for veterans)


Order of the Red Banner (pre-WWII issue)


Order of the Red Star (WWII issue)


Veteran of Trade medal (for laborers)

I also have all of the Red Army anniversary medals except for 1948 and 1958 (the 1938 is the pride of my Soviet medal collection, I bought it in Budapest) and I have all of the WWII victory commerative medals from 1955 to 1995. Having the complete set is pretty nice.

[ThoughtCriminal]

37. A wind-up razor

That my dad picked up there in the late 70's. Basically a rotary razor that used a flywheel instead of electricity.

Interesting gadget, but completely ineffective.

[zonkers]

38. Good point. They dont make too much stuff for export do they? I once had a soviet

camera I bought at a junk store. It was funny looking

[ForrestGump]

40. Soviet Navy ushanka (silver fake fur) and a Red Army belt

Also some medals, from when I was a kid, somewhere in storage.

[edbermac]

41. I have Gorbachev's birthmark.

:silly:

[conscious evolution]

42. A Soviet ciggarette case

Used to use it as a wallet.Still have it with my old wallet collection.
Also had a tankers hat with red star.Gave it to a freeper I used to be friends with.His head exploded!

[Blue-Jay]

43. Some old Sovtek guitar amp tubes.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

55. I had some big-ass Czech electrolitic capacitors made by a company called Tesla.

Taken from an old tube radio chassis salvaged from a junkyard. I did lots of electronic circuits out of things I got from junkyards.

[MonkeyFunk]

44. I have Andropov's

preserved body in my attic. Don't tell anyone!

[ohiosmith]

45. Kinda. My wife is Russian.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

56. Well, if she's older than 16, she qualifies.

:spank:

[ohiosmith]

60. I don't really own her.

[AllegroRondo]

46. a night vision device

found it when I was stationed in Korea

[ironflange]

47. Lots of stuff

Books, records, CDs, music scores, pins, trinkets, a watch that doesn't work, vodka bottles, a chess set. . .

[YDogg]

48. Some souvenirs from my trip there in 1983.

[Canadian Socialist]

49. A tea pot

Bone china, hand painted with gold leaf. Lovely!

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

50. my brother has some russian hockey equipment,

He traded for it some time in the late 80's at a tournament. I have it in my basement.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

52. Two beautiful painted wooden pins--jewelry.

[HEyHEY]

53. My political leanings!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

54. Some calculus and physics books from college time.

They were exercise books, rather than the official textbooks for the courses. Helped a lot, too. Printed in the USSR and shipped to a commie-friendly publisher in Brazil. Those were the waning years of the military dictatorship, and that didn't get you in hot water anymore.

One classmate of mine DID get in hot water by playing volley at college grounds with a CCCP shirt that was given to him by a Soviet volley player in the occasion of a Brazil-USSR match in Rio. Keep in mind I studied at an Army-owned institution.

[sweetheart]

57. a soviet navy officer's dagger nt

[sweetheart]

59. no, its a fake

I just looked at it, its a 'replica', 1993 probably from china. ha! :-)

[tigereye]

58. some pins and some shirts

from the 80s Soviet era clothing craze...

[Kali]

61. My "new" stepmother.

My dad recently married a woman from Russia. (No not a mail order deal, someone both he and my late mother knew for a long time)

Tons of junky souvenir stuff, scarfs, pins, lacquer ware, carved wood objects (lots of spoons), nesting dolls, birch bark crafts, coins, bills, amber, hand knit socks, packages of instant soup, books

[treestar]

63. I always figured those hats had to be the warmest possible

If there is one thing the Russians would have expertise on, it would be how to handle cold!