>>40994Don't know about Oranges, I doubt there was ever much fruit stuff from USA since we kind of live near asia and it's obviously much easer to buy them from here than from other side of ocean.
> Is this part of why Russians associate us with Coca Cola and Pepsi?
No, I guess it was one of the loudest brands. And soviet people who don't clearly understand "brands and companies" more felt like this things as your "symbols". There still from older generations people who don't really understand what companies, products and ads mean, interpritating them as overall face of nation and goverment, since in USSR all was made was owned by state obviously.
From there mentality of "we have Marx and Lenin and ruled by Party, USA have Coca-cola and Cowboys and ruled by Capitalists". So USA viewed as something same as USSR, just with diferent names and products, in late USSR just as "same, but more sucsesfull".
>Was this like a Russian holiday treat during Christmas?
Not during Christmas, Christmas fled together with last white resistance in revolution :/
And not Oranges but Mandarin and they basicly was once of year because of very limited import, so they accesable only when there is iternal harvest of them inside SU. This why it was "fruit that apper during specific time".
>>40994Don't know about Oranges, I doubt there was ever much fruit stuff from USA since we kind of live near asia and it's obviously much easer to buy them from here than from other side of ocean.
> Is this part of why Russians associate us with Coca Cola and Pepsi?
No, I guess it was one of the loudest brands. And soviet people who don't clearly understand "brands and companies" more felt like this things as your "symbols". There still from older generations people who don't really understand what companies, products and ads mean, interpritating them as overall face of nation and goverment, since in USSR all was made was owned by state obviously.
From there mentality of "we have Marx and Lenin and ruled by Party, USA have Coca-cola and Cowboys and ruled by Capitalists". So USA viewed as something same as USSR, just with diferent names and products, in late USSR just as "same, but more sucsesfull".
>Was this like a Russian holiday treat during Christmas?
Not during Christmas, Christmas fled together with last white resistance in revolution :/
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