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Talking About My Generation

Russians reminisce about their Soviet childhoods on a new web site dedicated to those born between 1976 and 1982.

In some ways, being a Soviet kid in the 1980s wasn't that different from growing up in the West at the same time. You could find the same stonewashed jeans, ill-advised leggings and passion for "Dirty Dancing" on either side of the Iron Curtain. But in the Soviet Union, children had to use a lot more than pester power to get what they wanted. They boiled Indian-made jeans in bleach to give them street cred, cut up tights to make the crucial hairbands and even colored their chewing gum with felt-tip pens to make it look like imported bubblegum.

These and other tips on how to be the envy of Class 7B circa 1988 are shared in a new web site called "76-82: Encyclopedia of Our Childhood." Developed from a popular LiveJournal.com forum, the site lists the iconic toys, games and clothes from the childhood of people born roughly between 1976 and 1982. They were the last to enter the Young Pioneers and the first to watch Arnold Schwarzenegger films in backstreet video salons. [...]