Velly Joonas - Stopp, Seisku Aeg! (soul/funk, Estonia, USSR, 1980-1983)
This blog is about old postcards, book illustration, history and culture of Russia and the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 10 years old.
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Estonia, 1970 (via)
Chanterelle pinback button made in Soviet Estonia ()
St John’s Eve / Valli Lember-Bogatkina - postcard from 1965, Estonia (USSR)
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A postcard from 1974, showing the Soviet square in Viljandi, Estonia. Photo by A.Kiisa
These old vehicles on the square make me so nostalgic! Especially the small ZAZ-965, known as maanteemuhk (a bump on the road), as my family used to own one of these.
Postcard by Silvia Väljal, Estonia 1957
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And here comes your illustrated Estonian language lesson for today!
What the English call a greenhorn, we in Estonia call a kollanokk (yellow peak) - as you can see from this postcard, it needs no further explanation to understand what one has in mind, when calling someone a mere kollanokk!
Can someone English speaking give me similar illustration showing a greenhorn?
Image used is a postcard from year 1975, photo by G.German
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In Estonia storks used to get blamed, whenever a new baby appeared in a family.
The first postcard is by artist E.Valter , from 1960s.
The second one is couple of decades older and has no data on it about the artist.
But I am greatly amused by message on back of the older card. A child has written on it: “My grandmother with her brothers and sisters in bog. The baby with white shirt is my GRANDMOTHER.”
Narva, Estonia, Engraved copper card (1970s) (via )
Photo by K. Melbardis (K. Melbārža)
Estonia, 1955
Illustration by Kirill Ovchinnikov