Posted on 05/08/2026 11:07:27 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Content evoking the Soviet era is becoming increasingly common on social media...
"Nostalgic content aimed at young people — showing Soviet-era interiors or images of panel apartment blocks, paired with audio and instructions on how they should be viewed — would have seemed bizarre 15 years ago. Now it has become a trend," says Marleen Mihhailova, a junior researcher in semiotics at University of Tartu...
What motivated Mihhailova to study the topic, however, was specifically an interest in young people's nostalgia, since they have no firsthand experience of the Soviet period.
She interviewed 10 young people born after 1990, half of whom spoke Estonian at home and half Russian...
On the one hand, people recognize that certain activities, styles or consumer items have disappeared from everyday use. On the other, recalling shared memories creates a sense of belonging and warmth.
"Nostalgia becomes especially relevant in uncertain times, such as the present," the junior researcher notes.
To a large extent, nostalgic posts contain criticism of modern life.
Looking back at the past highlights values such as slowness, privacy and durability, contrasting them with today's speed, stress and consumer society.
For example, people compare modern IKEA furniture with handmade Soviet-era items...
In a recent conference presentation, she cited the example of tube marmalade.
"I noticed that several social media groups were simultaneously sharing photos of marmalade and Kosmos extract...It turned out that a new tube marmalade product from the Polli Horticultural Research Center had indirectly triggered the wave of memories.
Tube marmalade. Screenshot from a Facebook post. Source: EESTI NSV.
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View of the Tallinn Service House. 1975. Source: National Archives EFA.
Screenshot of an Instagram post. Source: @eastern_european_nostalgic.
What about the Stainless Steel Teeth ? LOl
Exactly what I was going to post.
One of my favorite movies of all time is “Goodbye, Lenin!” and how in order to convince their mother that East Germany still existed they had to find her favorite brand of pickles from the GDR, all they could do is find an old jar in the trash and replace the label on the new jar with it.
I miss the shoe banging at the UN.
Moscow Rammstein…
https://youtu.be/82h_28ou7_c
It appears to me that the Democrats want to recreate in the USA the cultures and societies of the Soviet Union. Therefore lots of apartment buildings. Free Gov. health care. Lots of Gov. jobs. Anyone who disagrees with the Gov. will be placed into an insane asylum for evaluation and rehabilitation. Street gangs from the Gov. housing to terrorize the Christian and Jewish communities. Secret Police to get rid of intelligence people. The democrat playbook.
Democratic Party to build a memorial
UC Berkeley has one of the student dorms done in the soviet era “Brutalist” style architecture
I did not know of this group.
Listening now.
In the Soviet Union, they weren’t fans of faggotry. And if you didn’t have a job, you could be arrested under “Anti-Parasite” laws, or forced to take a job.
Ah, it is a genre.
This was a good band. Viktor Tsoi, is probably still the biggest star in Russian music, although he passed away in 1991.
Kino - Spokoynaya Noch’ (Calm Night) Спокойная ночь
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOYkG5VMhp8
Bald and Bankrupt’s videos are great too, before the Russians kicked him out of country.
Almost an exact description of the society in “A Clockwork Orange!’!
Young people are stupid and what has made them stupid is easy life. We’ve finally broken through to the first world and now have first world problems.
t. an Estonian
The Russian people suffered horribly under ninety years of evil communism. Yet will always wonder how many current Americans would have not come to exist if the Russians, who suffered horrendous casualties, had not fought the Germans so well and had not destroyed the best of the German war machine. If America had to attack Europe against a relatively intact German army,wonder how many of our grandfathers and fathers would have never returned to procreate.
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