I was attending Junior School when USSR was over and I witnessed things going the way they are now step by step. Apart from the chapters in Ukrainian history textbooks Ukrainian SSR has left something worthy, something to take through life. Soviet Ukrainian memories.
1. Plombir
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It’s a sort of delicious ice-cream sold on any corner not containing preservatives and toxic coloring agents. Costing just a few copecks it contained so much pleasure. I remember being taken to a café by my aunt, a University student at that time and being told to leave some ice-cream to the poor woman picking ice-cream bowls. I truly believed everyone did so! No ice-cream tastes with these sweet memories anymore 
2. Slivki
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Cream found in excess on the supermarket shelves today was something I never heard of before coming to my grandma in Belarus. My granny confused me much looking for Slivki in the milk department, Slivki being a homonym of plums and having this only “plum” meaning for me. The Ukrainian SSR somehow failed to supply this to the communist citizens.
3. Kirpichik
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A rye bread baked in the form of brick (kirpich). When I was passing time with my grandpa I was probably always a bit hungry as he failed to find food placed other than on the stove. So whenever we happened to go out for a walk I was asking for a quarter of kirpichik which I ate with great appetite! Now being packed into plastic it never has such a crispy crust and can hardly be found just baked.
