Zoya, 38 years old:- We still have old toys, but there are not so many of them. They peeled off the paint, but they are still loved - from childhood (and not only mine, but my mother's). I love toys on clothespins. We had five identical glasses (the end of the 50s - the beginning of the 60s of the last century). I really liked them, and I loved to arrange them on the Christmas tree. Then one crashed, I was very upset. And after a while my mother married my stepfather. They began to live together, and he brought his Christmas decorations. When we had the “inventory”, my happiness knew no bounds - we had as many as 12 glasses, so loved by me! And I can not imagine a tree without old glass beads. Even specifically looking for where to buy.
1 / 6Photo: Wday archivePhoto: Wday archivePhoto: Archive WdayPhoto: Archive WdayPhoto: Archive WdayPhoto: Archive WdayDarya, 27 years old: - New Year's Eve is my favorite holiday, I like all these New Year's preparations, and especially I like to buy Christmas decorations. You know, there is such a sign; every time you need to hang one new decoration on the Christmas tree so that the coming year will bring a lot of happiness. Balls, animals, cartoon characters, beads, tinsel, etc. - your eyes are scattering! Everything is beautiful and brilliant. Although there was no such thing before - the tree didn’t seem to be less fabulous, therefore, despite my love for new toys, I can’t imagine the New Year without old decorations - they have so much warmth and memories. When I was little, I loved to play scenes with these glass figures, right on the Christmas tree. Now they bank as the apple of an eye, God forbid they break! Nowadays there are a lot of Christmas-tree decorations, and you can buy them in every store, but there will no longer be such as these.
1 / 5Photo: Archive WdayPhoto: Archive WdayPhoto: Wday archivePhoto: Wday archivePhoto: Wday archiveSvetlana, 55 years old: - This year, Cipollino and the cosmonaut on the Christmas tree celebrate their anniversary - in 2016 they turned 55 years old, just like me, by the way. Probably because it seems to me that they have always been. In my childhood, my sister and I liked to look for toys on the tree, well, first they were hung up, and then we asked each other, for example: "Find me a hare" and so on, who will find it faster. Later my children already played this game. Previously, there were more toys of those times - in connection with two long distance journeys there was not much left, but we save them as a memory. In general, there is some special attraction in old Christmas tree toys, because they remember the first issue of KVN on a black and white screen, Gagarin's flight into space, and indeed, they saw me as a little. Never stop loving to decorate a Christmas tree!
1 / 4 Photo: Wday archive Photo: Wday archive Photo:Wday archivePhoto: Wday archive These were the 70s, he and his family lived in Kazakhstan. Once, a few days before the New Year, 16-year-old Misha and his parents went shopping, and in a department store, on the window, they liked a figurine of a Kazakh girl in a yellow dress with a red shoulder blade. Then we looked at the rest of the toys, and then I wanted to buy one after another: a fish with a red comb, Santa Claus with a long beard, a house in the form of a mushroom, a hare, a pine cone. Many years later, after moving to Rostov, it turned out that some of the Christmas tree decorations remained intact. We thought: since they are in our family, then let them hang on the tree and please the eye. Now the hand does not rise to throw away this piece of family history.
1 / 4Photo: archive WdayPhoto: archive WdayPhoto: Archive WdayPhoto: Archive WdayAndrey, 20 years old: - Soviet toys have come to our house by inheritance. My grandparents bought them back in the 60s. From generation to generation, they were handed over to my parents, and so they are still in our family. I remember how, in my childhood on New Year's Eve, I took out a full box and soon decorated it, and now, out of habit, I hang them on the Christmas tree every year. They are just special, not like everyone else, the very images of animals, different figures look really fabulous and kind. Probably, therefore, I like such toys much more than those that are produced today.
1 / 3Photo: archive WdayPhoto: archive WdayPhoto: Archive WdayJusefa Alexandrovna, 78 years old: - I was born in December 1938 and my mother then bought Christmas-tree toys, and a year later she was gone. I keep toys all my life, but I haven’t put a big Christmas tree for a long time - I have a cat who loves to gnaw everything (laughs). Of course, not all toys are preserved. There was a war, an occupation. Once a wing of a German plane hit our house, we ourselves were miraculously alive. A lot of events happened over the years ... In general, I remember how my aunt in the 40s on New Year's Eve chopped down a dry tree (they never ruined living trees), brought it home and dressed it up. It was a holiday. How did the toys in those years? Manually. The wire frame was wrapped with cotton, and covered with gauze or paper, then painted. I must say that they looked natural. I had a Christmas tree toy - sausage, and I tried to bite it very little, it seemed to me that it could be a real sausage ... Toys of Yuzef Aleksandrovna and other citizens can be seen at the exhibition in the library to them. Pushkin in Novocherkassk from 9 to 19 January.
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