The life of women in the USSR was significantly different from that of modern Russian women. Frequent factors that accompanied it were shortages, lack of the most necessary goods and products. At the same time, a woman always remains a woman, therefore, in those days, everyone dreamed of looking attractive. How they did it, and what they were like, Soviet women, we will tell in this article.
Soviet beauty
Women in the USSR, even in those days when the real problem was to find good cosmetics or a new dress model, still managed to make a marafet. Shadows at that time were replaced by shoe polish, the powder was more like dust, and instead of a cosmetic pencil they used the most common.
During the period of total shortage, the women of the USSR suffered great inconvenience for the sake of beauty and attractiveness. For example, a perm was popular, which adorned the head of almost half of Soviet women workers. She looked straightlet's say, specifically, besides, it was very harmful to the hair itself. But fashionistas still preferred to sacrifice their he alth for a stylish hairstyle.
There was not much variety among hair dyes at that time, mainly basma and henna were on sale.
Among the perfumes for women of the USSR, photos of which are in this article, the perfume "Red Moscow" was most valued. And there were practically no other alternatives.
Separately, it is worth mentioning such a feature of Soviet women as golden teeth. In the USSR, they were not considered a sign of provinciality or bad taste, but immediately demonstrated to others that a person had money.
Appearance
The underwear of women in the USSR was not sexy, it was solid, comfortable, but completely shapeless. It is worth recognizing that women should not be blamed for this, they simply did not have much choice then, Belarusian knitwear provided almost the entire country.
Outerwear was more varied, but there were not many options either. The mink and astrakhan fur coats of Soviet fashionistas (you can see them well in retro photos of women in the USSR) were very heavy, and the drape coats had a very strange cut.
It was considered especially chic to purchase boots from Czechoslovakia, which served for a long time, although they were not very attractive. On average, the salary of a Soviet engineer could buy Yugoslav boots, which were a real miracle for that time.
Soviet diets
As in our days, women of the times of the USSR wanted to stay slim and fit. But then they did not know the methods of liposuction, there were no powders with diet pills in the Soviet Union. Things were much more complicated back then.
Most importantly, there was no information about diets and he althy eating, there was practically nowhere to get it from. The only way is the transmission of certain methods by word of mouth, while there was no certainty in their effectiveness and safety. For example, in the 60s, apple cider vinegar was popular for maintaining a slender body, by the way, some still use it. To do this, vinegar was diluted in water or tea, drinking this mixture in the morning and evening. A certain result could be seen, but it was more likely that women had gastritis because of it than a slender figure. Epsom s alts were added to sweet tea, which also led not only to weight loss, but also to stomach problems.
Over time, gymnastics, which was originally introduced at enterprises to maintain a good physical condition of the work team, became very popular. Many women adopted it at home as well. Hoops, squats, hula hoops are remembered by many who wanted to lose weight in Soviet times. If you approach it with enthusiasm, then gymnastics gave good results.
There were enough of those who went to extremes, almost starving, to earn themselves a thin waist.
Family Life
In the USSR, official marriage became very popular after the Great Patriotic War, because there were simply not enough men in the country. Girlsoften started a family, not really looking at the appearance or we alth of the groom.
It was especially hard for the widows of front-line soldiers, many of the husbands were officially considered missing, and there were cases when, many years after receiving an official funeral, a soldier returned home. Therefore, many continued to wait for their loved ones, remaining alone.
It is worth noting that in the Soviet Union it was customary to take family creation seriously. Marriage for selfish purposes could easily be condemned. In addition, civil marriage, although it certainly existed, was much less common than it is now. Living with a man without a stamp in his passport was considered indecent.
The state also played a certain role in this, which provided assistance to young families, but bachelors and the childless, on the contrary, were taxed.
Children in a Soviet family
Perhaps because of this, in the USSR, children were more likely to be born than now. Soviet women dreamed of their family and children much stronger than today. And often the couple was not limited to one child.
There were many mothers of many children even in the difficult post-war years. Despite all the difficulties, they managed to cope, raise he althy and strong boys and girls.
Women's work
Women's physical labor in Soviet times was treated differently than now. Indeed, during the war and after the victory, it was required to help men, who were always in short supply. When most of the stronger sex went to the front, women stood up formachine tools to provide the army with shells and ammunition.
It is worth admitting that this affected their appearance, women began to look rougher, but then, of course, they did not think about it. After the war, it was also not easy, it was necessary to restore the destroyed country, rebuild cities, build new factories and enterprises.
Heroes in skirts
The highest award in the USSR - the title of Hero of the Soviet Union - was awarded to women. In total, there were 95 female heroes in the USSR. Only one of them was awarded this title twice.
This is Svetlana Savitskaya, the second female cosmonaut. She became the first woman in the world to go into outer space. She made her first space flight in 1982. An amazing fact is connected with this flight. According to the French press, the Soviet leaders of the space industry then admitted that the first ever attempt of intimacy in space had taken place aboard the Salyut-7 station. Only it is not known who was the alleged partner of Savitskaya. Together with her in flight were Alexander Serebrov and Leonid Popov. Officially, this information has not been confirmed, Savitskaya herself avoids this topic in an interview.
In 1984, she became the first woman to go into outer space.
Valentina Tereshkova
The title of Hero of the Soviet Union is also the first woman in the USSR and in the world who went into space, this is Valentina Tereshkova. She is still the only woman on the planet,who flew alone.
She went on a space flight on June 16, 1963 on the Vostok-6 spacecraft. Outside of gravity, she spent almost three days, to be precise - 2 days 22 hours and 50 minutes. After that, there were no women in space for many years, not only in the USSR, but also in the rest of the world. The next was Savitskaya after 19 years.
Female criminals
In the Soviet Union there were not only female heroes, but also those who broke the law. As you know, the death pen alty was in effect in the USSR, and representatives of the weaker sex were also sentenced to capital punishment.
Executions of women in the USSR were not widespread, but they did occur. There were three in total for the entire post-war period.
This is Antonina Makarova, the executioner of the Lokotsky district during the Great Patriotic War. She acted on the territory of the formed Lokot Republic on the side of the Nazis and Russian collaborators. On her account, about one and a half thousand people were shot, those around her gave her the nickname Tonka the machine gunner.
After the war, she managed to escape, Makarova was arrested only in September 1978. All these years she lived quietly, started a family, worked in a sewing shop, even regularly got on the honor roll. The court sentenced her to death, in August 1979 the sentence was executed.
Berta Borodkina was the head of a canteen and restaurant trust in Gelendzhik. According to investigators, she traded in speculation on an especially large scale, had the nickname Iron Bella.
It is believed that for all the time she receivedgoods and money in the amount of about a million rubles. In 1982, she was sentenced to death for bribery and profiteering.
The third was Tamara Ivanyutina. She worked as a dishwasher in the canteen of school No. 16 in Kyiv. In 1987, several students and staff were hospitalized with food poisoning. Two adults died, 9 people were in intensive care.
It turned out that a nurse who was supposed to control the quality of food had died shortly before. Her death aroused suspicion. During exhumation, traces of a waist were found in the tissues.
During a search Ivanyutina was found "Clerici liquid" - a toxic solution used by geologists. It turned out that her family had been using it for many years, using it for selfish purposes and out of personal dislike. In total, nine of her victims were identified. According to the court decision, Ivanyutina was shot.
