If you do not like your simple name Sasha, Dasha, Masha, then be glad that your parents did not call you Tractor or Dazdraperma! After all, these are the names that were in use among the enthusiasts of the new time, which came after the victory of the revolution …
For the first time in the years of Soviet power, the centuries-old way of life was eradicated and new traditions of the communist society were born. The motto was the famous words of the "Internationale": "We will destroy the whole world of violence to the ground, and then we will build ours, we will build a new world …". Some of the Soviet traditions remained in the names, names of streets, cities. Some look wonderful in modern realities, some feel nostalgic.
Uryurvkos loves Waterpergekosma
“Today the citizens of the USSR, Waterperzhekosma Trudovna and Uryurvkos Vladlenovich, are married together” - such words could have sounded in the registry office, which is also an achievement of the Soviet era. The names given to Soviet children reflected the achievements of Soviet society, and from them one can study history.
During the years of Soviet power, people were so inspired by the idea of communism that they named their children after the leaders of the revolution. Moreover, in addition to the usual name Volodya, they tried to create new names from the abbreviations of the names of the leaders of the revolution as symbols of the new socialist era. Therefore, such names arose as Vladlen (Vladimir Lenin), Ninel (Lenin on the contrary), Marxlen (Marx, Lenin), Marlene (Marx, Lenin), Melor (Marx, Engels, Lenin, October Revolution), Vilen (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin), Lenior (Lenin and Oktyabrskaya, revolution), Luigi (s) - a name known earlier, but received a decoding "Lenin died, but ideas are alive."
The most significant achievements and ideas of the world revolution were also embodied in the names: Kim (Communist International of Youth), Dazdraparma ("Long live May First!"), Loriex (abbreviation for "Lenin, October, revolution, industrialization, electrification, collectivization of the country") … Vector (Great communism triumphs).
The names were praised for people of labor, those who benefited not themselves, but the state: Lagshmivara (Schmidt's camp in the Arctic), Krasarm (a) (Red Army), Gertrude (short for Hero of Labor), Rem (world revolution), Renata (revolution, science, labor), Riks (workers 'and peasants' union), Continuous (continuous five-day week), Pobisk (Generation of fighters and builders of communism), Revdit (revolutionary child). Tomik (Marxism and communism triumph), Junpion (young pioneer).
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The achievements of Soviet science and technology were also reflected. For example, children were named in honor of the discovery of new chemical elements (Radium, Tungsten), there were the names of Electrification, Traktorin, Drezin, Poster.
During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 such rare names as, for example, Pofistal (the winner of fascism / fascists Joseph Stalin) arose. In the 1950s - 1960s, people did not abandon this tradition. There are names associated with Soviet achievements in the field of astronautics and space exploration: Perkosrak (the first space rocket), Waterpergekosma (Valentina Tereshkova - the first woman cosmonaut), Uryurvkos (Ura, Yuri Gagarin in space), Niserkha (Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev), Kuserkha (Corn is the queen of the fields)
Many names have something in common with already existing Central Asian names, for example Damir (a) (Long live the world revolution) - coincides with the Tatar name. Zarema (Dawn of the Peace Revolution) - coincides with the Turkic name used
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin in the poem "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai". And such new names as Dotnara (Daughter of the Working People) became widespread in the Central Asian republics.
Noble milkmaid
After the revolution, all estate and class privileges were abolished. Even the appeal to army officers was canceled by Order No. 1 immediately after the February Revolution. New Soviet distinctive signs, titles and awards appeared. Among them is a Hero of Socialist Labor, a leader in production, a Stakhanovite. In newspaper editorials, they emphasized that a person is a tireless worker, they noted biographies and milestones of the labor path not only of the well-known Stakhanov, but also of notable milkmaids, tractor drivers, weavers - such as Pasha Angelina, the Vinogradov sisters.
Instead of the addresses "master", "lady", "young lady", everyone, both men and women, was addressed in the same way - "comrade". Russian emigrants and writers from the Russian diaspora often ridiculed new Soviet appeals. For example, Mikhail Osorgin in the novel "Sivtsev Vrazhek" emphasized: "I look at you, you are bad for the master, but you do not look like a comrade; that is how I will call you master."
Newspeak, the new Soviet language, the "language of the revolutionary era," replete with abbreviations and acronyms was introduced. This also remained in the novels of Mikhail Zoshchenko, Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, Mikhail Bulgakov. For example, everyone remembers the first spoken word of Sharikov (the character of the story "Heart of a Dog") - "Glavryba", which sounded like "Abyrvalg". There were also ROSIZO, the successor to the Soviet structure called Rosizopropaganda, VKHUTEMAS, from which, according to him, Ostap Bender graduated, and numerous other abbreviations.
To star or baptize?
Soviet holidays, the list of which was approved by the Council of People's Commissars in 1918, served as an important means of educating people in the spirit of socialism.
Instead of religious holidays, revolutionary ones were introduced. The main one was the Day of the Great October Socialist Revolution (November 7). May 1 was considered important - International Workers' Day, March 8 - International Women's Day. Only one holiday a year had no political overtones - New Year (in the second half of the 1920s, the celebration of the New Year with a Christmas tree in the USSR was prohibited, since it was associated with Orthodox Christmas, but in 1935 this ban was lifted).
Not a single Soviet holiday was complete without demonstrations - mass processions of people with flags, banners, portraits of leaders. They were designed to show the people's support for the policies of the Communist Party and the Soviet state.
In the 1930s, during the holidays, parades of athletes were held on Red Square. These bright theatrical performances were supposed to demonstrate the strength and health of the Soviet people. One of the most spectacular was a sports performance in Moscow called "If there is war tomorrow."
The celebration of the October Revolution was accompanied by a military parade. Slender columns of troops and military equipment demonstrated the military might of the Soviet state. In Moscow, the parade was traditionally held on Red Square, where soldiers and officers (representatives of different branches of the armed forces, students of military schools and academies) were passing, stamping a step. Then military equipment drove by: armored vehicles, tanks, artillery.
After the revolution, the character of not only state, but also family holidays changed. Instead of a wedding in a church, since 1925, the wedding ceremony was conducted by a registry office worker, the Internationale sounded as a wedding march, the newlyweds were given a volume of Capital by Karl Marx as a wedding present. In the 1920s, the "Octobrins" appeared, replacing the rite of baptism. Discussions were held "To star or baptize?", Where the advantage of the former was proved.
Living in communal apartments, in communal houses, was a characteristic phenomenon of the life of Soviet people in the 1920s and 1930s. This is how hundreds of thousands of families lived. Initially, the very concept of a family was eradicated, replaced by a team that was supposed to educate the person of the future. The whole life of a person from childhood to old age was regulated by organizations, the general was placed above the particular.
In their free time, people attended work clubs, spent time in parks of culture and recreation. In 1928, the Maxim Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure was opened in Moscow, where they created the "alley of shock workers of socialist labor" (busts of 15 best workers of Moscow factories were installed on it). In 1936, a huge statue "Girl with an oar" (by sculptor Ivan Shadr) was erected in the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Art. Subsequently, numerous copies of this statue appeared in the country.