As with so many other things, Russia followed its own path with pizza too. The country's first pizzerias did not offer traditional pizzas like Margarita or Pepperoni, but instead invented their own recipes. You will probably be surprised (and maybe frightened) to hear the list of flavors, but people who tried Soviet pizza do seem to remember it fondly.
The tiny Soviet press clipping that Boris Antonov saw announcing John Lennon s death in December 1980.
Antonov stressed that he was an ordinary Soviet kid from the outlying Moscow neighborhood of Kuntsevo. No one in my circle had dissident views or any doubts about socialism, he said. Downtown was where the kids lived whose fathers were in cinema or were diplomats or professors. The so-called Golden Youth who had blue jeans and the latest Deep Purple album.
Antonov did, however, play bass in a neighborhood band. He remembers hearing the Beatles 1965 song Girl when he was in the seventh grade on a