Yugo Nostalgia

Lately, I have been feeling just a tiny bit nostalgic. I sometimes really miss my childhood. It was a good childhood. I grew up in the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia which disintegrated in 1991. After that, my country was called the Republic of Slovenia and I never felt more proud. For the first time in our history, we even had our very own currency - Slovene tollar (sl. slovenski tolar). I remember exactly what I bought with my first 100 tollars (cca. 50 cents in today's euro) - two scoops of ice-cream. In 1991, one scoop of ice-cream cost 50 tolars - that is a little less that 25 cents (!) in euros. In the summer of 2010, one scoop of ice-cream cost 1,20 euro in Ljubljana (the capital of Slovenia).

This post is about the things without which I couldn't imagine my childhood:

Candy called ''505 sa crtom'' (Eng. 505 with the line),
as you can see from the image.

The ''Rondo C'' candy

The Croatian cartoon called ''Čudesna šuma''
(Eng. The Elm-Chanted Forest). I loved it!

A Croatian cartoon called ''Čarobnjakov šešir''
(Eng. The Magician's Hat)

Katrca

VW beetle - we called it ''hrošč''

And of course - Yugoslavia would not have been
Yugoslavia without Yugo:) My mom used to have a yugo:)

Last but not least, what made Yugoslavia special is that when the children reached a certain age, they had to take a Pioneer Pledge (serb-cro. Pionirska zakletva) which went a little something like this:

Danas, kada postajem pionir,

dajem časnu pionirsku riječ/reč -

da ću marljivo učiti i raditi,

poštovati roditelje i starije,

i biti vjeran/veran i iskren drug,

koji drži datu riječ/reč.

Da ću voljeti/voleti našu domovinu, samoupravnu SFRJ,

da ću razvijati bratstvo i jedinstvo

i ideje za koje se borio drug Tito.

Da ću cjeniti/ceniti sve ljude svijeta/sveta koji žele slobodu i mir!

Today, as I become a Pioneer,

I give my Pioneer's word of honour -

That I shall study and work diligently,

respect parents and my seniors,

and be a loyal and honest comrade/friend.

That I shall love our homeland, self-managed SFRY.

That I shall spread brotherhood and unity

and the principles for which comrade Tito fought.

And that I shall value all peoples of the world who respect freedom and peace!

Source: Wikipedia

This is how they were dressed:)

I wasn't one, though. I was born two years too late:)

Enjoy your day!

Love, 

Teja xoxox