Toys can read our country's history, find out what happened, see what and how Soviet people lived. Minsk Vladimir Vopolsky's story is about what toys have stolen a new year's elves during the USSR. However, perhaps some of these decorations find their place today on holiday trees in your homes.
Soviet tree toys were fundamentally different from "Zar" pre-revolutionary. In old times, toys reproduce the biblical plots - angels, bells, Christmas, Bethlehem star. New jewellery Promoted new ideals and constituted "crimel" stars, the symbol of the USSR, the surgeons, planes, cars.
The Elephant Upper, 1930s.
In 1937, the party ' s new initiative, the first and last time the party ' s leadership and the country, although on the tree, was apolitical!
But the glass balls were costly, so mostly toys made from the press cardboard and the vat. An integral part of a new year's tree, there were also cottons, rattles, bonuses.
Carton parachutelist, Soviet stars.
In 1937, the Intercom Questionnaire ' s " Ealka in Kindergarten " manual was useful and practical. It provided simple recommendations on the decoration of a new year ' s tree: how to make improvised toys, what size and what branches to hang jewels, how to respect fire safety techniques when using a new year ' s candle. "There is a need to steal the central, highest top of the five-end red or silver shiny star corresponding to its size. The star can be found in an inventory of ready tree decorations. The other three to four tops of the shelves can be painted with small, shiny hats (cloths from the glare). "Only good, brightly painted chains of flowers and insects, beasts, animals, birds, snowflies, parachute aeroplanks."
Pupils and accessories were made from coloured paper flasks, with pictures on them (they were manufactured in the 1940s-50s, and they were still loaded with a tree in the 1960s).
The brochure provided examples of the celebration, literary presentations, masked suit samples, song notes and poems, among which were:
I want a baby tree.
I'll meet New Year,
