There is a whole library left in the abandoned house - I look at the books that the owners of the house read

Paper books have no value today. It’s hard to believe that the times have come, about which many ancient sages warned us - they heat stoves with books, books burn in bonfires. Electronic works have replaced paper advisors, mentors and friends for us. For us, the generations of the 70s and 80s, they were books.

But recently, in an old abandoned house, I saw a very interesting library. In addition to fiction, it contained a mass of unusual books that ordinary Soviet people would never read. And I wanted to open these prints and see what's inside? I took the first books I came across from a beautiful bookcase and leafed through them in the light of a flashlight.

The owners of the house were village teachers. Maybe this is what determined such a set of literature, or it was just books that accidentally caught my eye seemed so strange.

For example, the "Atheist's Calendar". The book was published in 1964. Very strange articles, texts that try to prove something.

Although, if you read them, maybe you will find quite sensible thoughts.

I don't even know how I, a deeply religious person, should feel about this? I'd love to read the articles on the calendar.

Or here is a booklet with small posters "New horizons of communist construction" issued in 1981. Only 10 years remained before the collapse of the USSR, and no one could have thought that everything would collapse.

"Everything for the good of man, everything in the name of man" - then these were not pre-election slogans, but the real policy of the state. Very interesting postcards with photographs of Soviet people.

And here is a real rarity. Michurin's book "Pomological Descriptions" of 1940 release. Before the war!

A very beautiful edition, with illustrations, on good paper, in a beautiful cover.

But I took this brochure with me. I really wanted to find out what they thought in 1968 about the benefits and harms of drugs. Today this topic is more relevant than ever. There is also an article on vaccination. I will definitely read the opinion of Soviet doctors today.

And one more find that I took with me. This is the "Service Labor" textbook. It is even impossible today to imagine that children in a Soviet school were taught to disassemble and assemble sockets, fix irons, vacuum cleaners. Sew, cook, work on lathes! This does not fit in our heads today!

Here is another calendar directory of the Perm region 1966. Having opened the book, I immediately came across an article that was interesting for me.

"Leave the bees outside for the winter." Of course, she did not read in the light of the lantern, but took it with her. It is also interesting what was said about this controversial issue in 1966. Indeed, in those years, every collective farm had an apiary without fail. Therefore, beekeeping was not a private business, but part of the agriculture of a great country. And not only beekeepers were engaged in it, but also entire scientific institutes.

To some, my choice will seem strange, but this is not deliberate, but random flipping through old books in a village abandoned by people in the 21st century.

Recently I went into an abandoned house in the village and wondered what beautiful furniture had been left there.