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11 pics showing that the USSR was a true milk empire

Milk and dairy products were of great importance in the USSR. These photos prove it.
By Alexey Mosko, RBTH
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1944. Riga (now Latvia). A woman treats Red Army soldiers to a jug of milk.
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1967. Dairy women working at the Red October collective farm in the Kirov region (Northern Urals).
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1966. A Yakutian girl pours kumis (mare's milk) into a tub.
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Viktor Sadchikov/TASS

1984. Milk bottling at a dairy plant in Barnaul (Altai, Southern Siberia).
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Valery Zufarov/TASS

1972. A grocery in southern Moscow.
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1966. A line of customers in a dairy shop in Kazan (800 km east of Moscow)
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1984. A girl drinks milk at a kindergarten attached to the Lenino stud farm (now Belarus).
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1974. Employees of the milk processing factory in Mogadishu, Somalia. The local plant was built by Soviet engineers.
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1959. Milkmaids examine a new milking machine at the Alexinsky collective farm in the Smolensk region (400 km west of Moscow).
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1976. A milkmaid from Kazakhstan offers a bowl of kumis to a combine driver.
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1986. Nina Chervyachenko, chief cheese-maker of the Maryino collective farm in the Kursk region (500 south of Moscow).
June 1, 2016
Tags: ussr, cuisine, history, history_multimedia

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