Without doxing yourself what were the Soviet summer camps like? Most summer camps I had been to as a kid in the US tended to revolve around voluntary classes you would sign up for and then have to be at every weekday for a week or two along with recreational activities in between that were optional like swimming in lakes/pools or playing sports with friends or spending real cold hard cash in the summer camp store. The classes were regimented while the fun activities were more loose and could be done whenever. Also every summer camp had an end of week dance which was great fun.
I've been to a whole bunch of camps. I generally didn't like them much, but my parents seemed to think they were a good way to keep me occupied during summer instead of spending all my time playing video games.
Like I've been to a Jewish one that was using the same classes framework you describe. They probably got that from American camps.
I've also been to an more "orthodox" Soviet one a whole bunch of times. At least I assume it functioned like Soviet ones used, because it actually continued to work through the fall and a lot of things seemed were similar to what you can see in Soviet kids movies about summer camps.
This camps was for kids of worker of a specific factory and shared facilities with a sanatorium for workers for that factory. The day was regimented around meals and there filled with various activities, sports competition and talent show. I think we had dances like every other day. The sanatorium had it's own movie theater and they showed us movies like a couple of times a week.
The food was the same we had in all Soviet canteens and I hated it with passion. We were also had a rotating duty when some of us were supposed to help with pealing potatoes or setting the meals.
I can ramble for a long time, but I can also answer if you have specific questions.
Wow, I wouldn't even be sure what to ask, that's just a really fascinating insight. When you say that often times camps were for workers of a specific factory do you mean that there were often large social institutions built around creating a common culture of belonging with your coworkers? I've never even heard of this in the United States except for like richer office workers or something. I've also never seen any Soviet kids movies about summer camps, is there any off the top of your head you could say capture the overfall vibe? Even if it's not translated into English in any way, it might be cool to know.
Also you said video games, did you grow up in the 80s? I didn't even know video games were available to Soviet kids back then, what kinds of video games did you even play?
large social institutions built around creating a common culture of belonging with your coworkers
I wouldn't be able to say much on that cause I was a kid and probably filtered out a lot of what parents told me happened at the factory. My parents and grandparents lived on a street named after the factory, all 50 apparent buildings from five to twelve stories high build specifically for the workers of the factory. All my family worked at the factory. Everyone seemed to have know everyone from work.
The factory organized a bit of cultural stuff at the factory sanatorium I described in the previous post. There were busses that takes workers to the forest were the sanatorium was when the shift ended.
I remember my mom telling me about her brief stint in the factory choir and one time she won factory skiing race. That probably happened before the fall.
There was a lot of mandatory political organizing but my family hated it. No one of them was into communism.
...camp movies..
Welcome, or No Trespassing was the big one. It's a children's comedy and I remember likings it as a kid but have absolutely zero recollection of it not.
Also you said video games, did you grow up in the 80s?
I was born in the late eighties. So most of the things I remember were after the fall. I went to the sanatorium with my grandma for the first time in 93, I think and to the camp in 94 or 95.
I got a NES clone in 94. In the city park we had a whole bunch of Soviet-made electromechanical arcade machines. Those were pretty cool, you can look them up on YouTube. There were also Soviet Nintendo game-and-watch clones called Electronica .
I’ve been to a whole bunch of camps. I generally didn’t like them much, but my parents seemed to think they were a good way to keep me occupied during summer instead of spending all my time playing video games.
What the fuck are you talking about? There were no video games in USSR.
Without doxing yourself what were the Soviet summer camps like? Most summer camps I had been to as a kid in the US tended to revolve around voluntary classes you would sign up for and then have to be at every weekday for a week or two along with recreational activities in between that were optional like swimming in lakes/pools or playing sports with friends or spending real cold hard cash in the summer camp store. The classes were regimented while the fun activities were more loose and could be done whenever. Also every summer camp had an end of week dance which was great fun.
I've been to a whole bunch of camps. I generally didn't like them much, but my parents seemed to think they were a good way to keep me occupied during summer instead of spending all my time playing video games.
Like I've been to a Jewish one that was using the same classes framework you describe. They probably got that from American camps.
I've also been to an more "orthodox" Soviet one a whole bunch of times. At least I assume it functioned like Soviet ones used, because it actually continued to work through the fall and a lot of things seemed were similar to what you can see in Soviet kids movies about summer camps.
This camps was for kids of worker of a specific factory and shared facilities with a sanatorium for workers for that factory. The day was regimented around meals and there filled with various activities, sports competition and talent show. I think we had dances like every other day. The sanatorium had it's own movie theater and they showed us movies like a couple of times a week.
The food was the same we had in all Soviet canteens and I hated it with passion. We were also had a rotating duty when some of us were supposed to help with pealing potatoes or setting the meals.
I can ramble for a long time, but I can also answer if you have specific questions.
Wow, I wouldn't even be sure what to ask, that's just a really fascinating insight. When you say that often times camps were for workers of a specific factory do you mean that there were often large social institutions built around creating a common culture of belonging with your coworkers? I've never even heard of this in the United States except for like richer office workers or something. I've also never seen any Soviet kids movies about summer camps, is there any off the top of your head you could say capture the overfall vibe? Even if it's not translated into English in any way, it might be cool to know.
Also you said video games, did you grow up in the 80s? I didn't even know video games were available to Soviet kids back then, what kinds of video games did you even play?
I wouldn't be able to say much on that cause I was a kid and probably filtered out a lot of what parents told me happened at the factory. My parents and grandparents lived on a street named after the factory, all 50 apparent buildings from five to twelve stories high build specifically for the workers of the factory. All my family worked at the factory. Everyone seemed to have know everyone from work.
The factory organized a bit of cultural stuff at the factory sanatorium I described in the previous post. There were busses that takes workers to the forest were the sanatorium was when the shift ended.
I remember my mom telling me about her brief stint in the factory choir and one time she won factory skiing race. That probably happened before the fall.
There was a lot of mandatory political organizing but my family hated it. No one of them was into communism.
Welcome, or No Trespassing was the big one. It's a children's comedy and I remember likings it as a kid but have absolutely zero recollection of it not.
I was born in the late eighties. So most of the things I remember were after the fall. I went to the sanatorium with my grandma for the first time in 93, I think and to the camp in 94 or 95.
I got a NES clone in 94. In the city park we had a whole bunch of Soviet-made electromechanical arcade machines. Those were pretty cool, you can look them up on YouTube. There were also Soviet Nintendo game-and-watch clones called Electronica .
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What the fuck are you talking about? There were no video games in USSR.
Is this a joke or are you stupid
We had the best video games of all time .
Well, I stand corrected.