r/TheWayWeWere • u/TelephoneAI • 12h ago

1970s A mother and two children (typical Eastern Europe), 1972

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Vilnius, Lazdynai district.

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u/FriuKi 10h ago

The crib's wheels say a lot about USSR being a successful and rich country/ union

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u/DanderMuffling 9h ago

I was about to ask what the rope is for?

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u/FriuKi 9h ago edited 7h ago

To keep the tire on the rim since it's of such bad quality that it falls making the baby feel the shocks of every pebble on its metalic rims. Most things in the soviet union were of such poor quality but sadly the military had a whole different level of quality

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u/melnaisbruninieks 5h ago

Those wheels were the most adopted to anything and they were plenty. 

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u/GloriousApricot-5843 1h ago

They were not very fond of trees apparently

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u/Mj-tinker 11h ago

AI

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u/TelephoneAI 11h ago

Check in Google images?