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Soviet youth mostly didn’t use drugs, however many abused alcohol. The most common drinks were vodka and portwein.

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In dorms, along with alcohol people most often ate homemade pickled cucumbers and black bread.

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Here the curious thing is that on photoes people are usually showing off something they are proud of. In this case the soviet students have put an empty bottle of some portuguese portwein. There was that thing in the USSR, if somebody got somehow a bottle of foreign alcohol, that bottle was refilled with some Soviet alcohol and put on the table for every next tableful. That was considered to be cool. Also the guys are boasting by a tape recorder with olympic symbolics and a pack of cigarettes.

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– It’s so cool, guys, that we don’t live on the spiritless West, but building communism in the highly spiritual USSR.

– Hell yeah, Petruha! Soviet means “excellent”. Pour me some more!

“Relaxation” for the Soviet youth often ended up with drinking at somebody’s place, in a dorm or in nature. People mostly drank portwein or vodka, both of which tasted pretty bad.

Information taken from the forum “The USSR – lost paradise?” http://izmail.es/forums/printthread.php?t=7481&pp=10&page=33 Author is the user “Птиц”.