Назад в прошлое Back to the past

Yesterday we returned from the USSR. Emotions are overflowing. I want to tell mothers who send their children alone to a sanatorium that your children will come after the rest, pretty built. "Meals" in this establishment, depending on the shift of cooks on duty, are either edible, but meager and without any frills such as a spoonful of salad from the simplest cabbage, or completely inedible. One of the dinners would have been impressive even during the Holodomor. For the first barley soup was offered: 2 grains of pearl barley, 2 centimeter cubes of potatoes, spices and 1 pair of flakes symbolizing lard. The second - vegetable stew: 100g of hard half-baked cabbage, obviously chopped with an ax, 3 pieces of burnt carrots and 2 cubes of potatoes floated in a plate with some kind of liquid. Oh, I also forgot a quarter of the bone from a chicken leg without meat. The third dish is compote: a barely colored liquid, slightly sweet and warm. Bread. I have never met more cynical people than the "chefs" at Rosa. How can you completely spoil the products if you know that the children have nowhere to buy anything edible except for the stall on the territory. About the stall is also a separate tale. Of the useful products such as yogurt, kefir, muesli, etc. , there is nothing, but chips, pizza of unknown origin and all sorts of terrible sweets with a bunch of dyes at fabulous prices (1 candy like "milk drop" - 25 kopecks) are present in abundance. It's about "food". Your children will live in rooms for 12-20 people. Room 6x6 sq. m. accommodates 10 bunk beds, 10 bedside tables, 1 old, rickety wardrobe. This is what we lived in. When it is not the season and there are few children, the wards are half-filled and they try to accommodate them according to their age and friends. In winter, boys and girls lived in the same building on different floors, and in summer they live in different buildings. There are new beds in the rooms, but basically all the furniture is old Soviet times. There is one toilet per floor, there is also a bidet and a washbasin. Shower 2-3 times a week in a free-standing shower.