Associations with certain realities of the Soviet era

This survey is about free associations with certain realities of the Soviet era. Please just write down terms that come to your mind regarding one word or another.

Please write down associations you connect with the following terms without thinking too much: (1) House of Culture

  1. house of culture, community center, village community house, house for exhibitions, concerts, etc.
  2. a house where different cultures can meet
  3. goethe, reading, culture
  4. leftist people
  5. opera, music, literature, doctrine
  6. none-
  7. concerts, readings
  8. cultural programs, concerts, theater,
  9. concerts, readings, theater
  10. -
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(2) Kolkhoz

  1. collective farm, socialist realism, hero of labor, unpleasant working conditions
  2. finnish dish
  3. collective farm
  4. soviets
  5. agriculture, community
  6. agricultural compulsory association
  7. work, agriculture, group association
  8. women with headscarves, tractors, farmer, hay, cows
  9. lpg
  10. agriculture, history book, russia
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(3) Komsomol construction site

  1. disco in moscow (punk cover version by die toten hosen)
  2. ancient play
  3. yellow helmet
  4. russian
  5. political doctrine
  6. unknown
  7. ???
  8. mud, big men, tractors
  9. ?
  10. -
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(4) Fufaika

  1. 5 o'clock (fuff = hessian for 5, aika = finnish for "time")
  2. advertising campaign for youth project
  3. balaton
  4. balalaika
  5. ?
  6. 请提供需要翻译的内容。
  7. ???
  8. ludicrous word (i forgot the meaning)
  9. ?
  10. -
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(5) Kulak

  1. coolie? archipelago gulag? labor camp in siberia?
  2. swedish court
  3. -
  4. gulag
  5. if it is like gulag, then prison, camp, re-education camp
  6. if it should be called gulag, forced labor camp/punishment camp/stalin.
  7. means "ear" in turkish
  8. strong men with beards
  9. labor camp
  10. -
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(6) Public sauna

  1. cool! sauna rules!
  2. public sauna that requires an entrance fee.
  3. nakedness, shame, sweat
  4. finland
  5. cultural asset
  6. relaxation
  7. sweating men, steam
  8. fkk, naked men and women, nature
  9. ?
  10. east/west differences, children go to the sauna (response from many former west germans: "isn't that harmful to children's health?")
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(7) Street child

  1. the street boys = german pseudo-punk band, boys without a proper home but with worn-out pants, begging, hanging around, and sniffling.
  2. boy who lives on the street
  3. charlie chaplin's "the kid", trash, crime.
  4. river of january
  5. romanticized in books, on their own, begging/stealing, parents largely absent
  6. -
  7. sniffing glue
  8. hungry, with sad eyes
  9. ?
  10. orphaned children, poor countries
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(8) Technical school

  1. pedant to the mathematics museum in gießen. or a technical final examination. perhaps also a word for technology/invention.
  2. museum of technology
  3. munich, germany, industrial revolution
  4. unappetizing
  5. school/university with a technical focus
  6. training facility
  7. university, engineers
  8. an institution at a lower level
  9. ?
  10. -
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Please state your age:

  1. 40
  2. 27
  3. 37
  4. 35
  5. 30
  6. grew up in the west, so there are no associations with certain words.
  7. 52
  8. 24
  9. 33
  10. 20
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