Queue in the bathroom. 1980

An ordinary dull holiday in the USSR. Maslenitsa was not celebrated in the USSR until the end of the 70s. This was considered religious prejudice.

A political informant gives a lecture on the international situation for a field brigade of collective farmers during a lunch break.

In 6 months, Brezhnev will die and the Central Committee of the CPSU will be headed by Yuri Andropov, who will die of illness a year later and will hand over the reins of power to Konstantin Chernenko.