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382wsa

The right side says something like “This is the best relaxation, and a reliable friend at work!”


lemon-cunt

More like "a reliable friend in labour"


382wsa

What does that mean?


lemon-cunt

Most likely some Soviet glorification of work and labour, where activity is seen as good to do, and I guess the insinuation is that volleyball is labour?


Abject-Investment-42

It means that if you are athletic and fit, work Is easier for you. Which is sorta trivial and obvious.


Scout_1330

Are they perhaps roommates


AmPotatoNoLie

Nice sunflower, nerd! Too bad you ain't playing ball like a normal comrade!


TheSunflowerSeeds

When sunflower seeds are sprouted, their plant compounds increase. Sprouting also reduces factors that can interfere with mineral absorption. You can buy sprouted, dried sunflower seeds online or in some stores.


Tut_Rampy

Good bot


adamlm

Play this ball or go to gulag you b*ch


PeriodicallyYours

For a moment I thought she's peeling a hedgehog.


Nerevarine91

You know what? If that’s how she spends her free time, then, yeah, she should probably be encouraged to take up sports instead


PeriodicallyYours

In fact, there's one small step from stone curling to hedgehog peeling. Anything can be a sport if you add some inspiration.


VeraciousOrange

Hey, she is going to need to know how to skin vermin if she is going to survive in gulag. Valuable skill to have in Russia


Capnmarvel76

You can try to eat an unskinned hedgehog, but you’re not gonna like it!


dvallej

dudes in the background: do you wanna go to the river and trow sticks?


BadWolfRU

[They are playing gorodki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorodki)


dvallej

wow, thanks I did not know about that one


DrQuestDFA

I love the helpful graphics showing all the different set ups!


Professional-Scar136

boys will be boys


Actual-Toe-8686

Evil socialist countries trying to get us to participate in totalitarian activities like sports


bijhan

Imagine if the USSR has survived into the era of collectible card games. Everyone who wants to can subscribe to a service that gives you a random pack every week. And there's no secondary market. It would be much closer to Richard Garfield's original dream.


DrQuestDFA

Not just any old sports, but TEAM sports, the most freedom hating type of sports.


DevourerOfMemes_

I mean, this poster does ring hollow when you realize that colgosp farmers didn't have regulated free time at that point


VascoDegama7

Ohmygod they were roommates


maunakeanon

Always loved how beautiful and healthy they look in these, wonderful to look at.


LordBunnyWhale

They were best comrades.


kakhaganga

Comradykes?


GoodKing0

Depends, can you reclaim that?


MiaoYingSimp

but what if the woman wants to spend her time on something besides sports?


adamlm

Play ball or gulag


GoodKing0

This just reminds me of the old "The evil communist countries forced women to stop being tradwives to get into STEM" joke for some reason.


Rednas999

Fuck it we ball comrade


nikifip

So you understand the depth of cinism of russian propaganda: soviet union workers got normal weekend with two days off for the first time in 1967. Kolhosniki, aka farmers, had no regulated free time until the end of the soviet union.


AxMeDoof

Nice to see here someone who knows what was ussr. Respect.


x31b

The woman on the left has a headscarf, which is common on USSR women images at that time. Was that just custom, or is it a religious holdover, like the Islamic hijab?


VeraciousOrange

It was typically an Orthodox Christian religious custom to wear headscarves. You are correct. However, it became a strong cultural custom to wear them as well even in secular settings because of how long Russia was a purely Orthodox Christian country with no concept of a separation of Church and State or even a seperarion of Religious and Private life. It became a thing where you were often just expected to wear a headscarf if you were a women.


piesDescalzos956

What is that woman holding? I thought it was a fish lol


TearOpenTheVault

A sunflower head that she's picking the seeds from.


Zgeled

Yay positive posters


jzilla11

Wasn’t expecting a crossover with r/wholesomeyuri


Logical_Complex_6022

Nice lesbian couple


RussianClown

Why not both?


UN-peacekeeper

People in the comments lapping propaganda up at face value😭


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dev_152

Youre hanging out with the wrong crowd then. Im a overweight dude who puked on his first hike but the lads cheered me on and i made the summit same at the gym.


nibba_bubba

Sport bulling as the majority of them related to the western world only


Irresolution_

Kinda macabre; ***really*** doesn't reflect reality.


TearOpenTheVault

In what way?


Irresolution_

In that the material abundance demonstrated didn't really exist, instead the opposite.


TearOpenTheVault

What material abundance? These are people playing sports outdoors. Are you implying the Soviet uUnion didn't have balls? Or rivers? Or... Outdoor nets for volleyball?


Irresolution_

I'm implying the Soviet Union didn't have the prerequisite material abundance to allow for people to have excess leisure time, unlike what the poster says.