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meddyg

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Caption it #2020
« on: 05 May, 2023, 12:16:24 pm »


Weekend in Moscow, anybody ?




(1975 mail order catalogue from 'Konsument, KarlMarxStadt)
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rogerzilla

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Re: Caption it #2020
« Reply #1 on: 05 May, 2023, 02:18:40 pm »
She's obviously happy to stay in Moscow queuing for turnips, while the others on the train ponder the miserable weekend they're about to spend in the fleshpots of Berlin.
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meddyg

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Re: Caption it #2020
« Reply #2 on: 05 May, 2023, 04:32:56 pm »
'Oh this little thing ?
It's just a tartan  frock I picked up in Prague in the spring...
A routine czech.'
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rogerzilla

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Re: Caption it #2020
« Reply #3 on: 05 May, 2023, 09:42:36 pm »
When she chose the outfit to match the colours of the German flag, no-one told her it had changed in 1945.
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Canardly

Re: Caption it #2020
« Reply #4 on: 07 May, 2023, 01:47:57 pm »
Come to Moscow where we will make you really unwelcome!
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Caption it #2020
« Reply #5 on: 09 May, 2023, 03:00:14 pm »
No caption, but I love the irony of a consumer mag being based in Karl-Marx-Stadt.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Caption it #2020
« Reply #6 on: 09 May, 2023, 03:09:31 pm »
She has the expression and poise of a model in a sanitary towel advert (before they started jumping out of aeroplanes).
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