The snow wasn't that big, just enough to be trouble going to school and back. The hard part was the path from the main entrance of Zmaj to its gate, because it had raised curbs, and it wasn't cleaned, so there'd be a layer of sludge and I really never had waterproof shoes. When I had šveđanke (swedes, fem. - the winter shoes with metal hooks for the threading the lace, no holes), my feet would be cold and wet.
And I was going in the afternoons again, for the photo sekcija. Developed my first negatives about this time (not found last time I checked, the oldest ones were from about next summer).
The lab was in the walled-off end of the 2nd floor corridor in the newer wing of the school. There was no water there, as all the water was concentrated around the first classroom (in the new wing; in the old it was at the further end). They probably saved on some of the pipes this way, as all the cabinets (physics, chemistry on 2nd floor, techniques and visual arts in the semi-basement, plus staff room and principal's office on 1st floor). The gym was added while we were, IIRC, 4th grade, and the corridor leading to it was also close to these pipes, as it had to have shower rooms. The schoolyard taps were also near by, so that's where they hooked the line.
Various stuff from this year:
On Lepenski Vir an archeological dig discovered stuff from who knows which era, bronze or even older. This will later be called Vinča culture. Photographs of found figures seem unearthly, all in the same style, women with big tits, bellies and largish mouths. Which then makes you think about it... how many peoples used to live here before we did, all that was going on here. Maybe this was the year when the phrase „house in the middle of imperial road“ was coined, maybe later. „Imperial“ is „carski“ - czarian, i.e. caesarian.
Tourist visas were revoked for all, and the fiscal policy of the government also helps blossoming of tourism in SFRY since 1961 and the sharp growth of stanard of living at the coast (which was quite poor theretofore). This year there were 37 million visitors, in 12,3 million cars. We did see them this summer. Actually, this was the first time I saw so many foreigners, and foreign licence plates on cars, and various weird cars - aston martin, alfa romeo, simca, topolino (the midget), fiat 500 (both predecessors of fića) and multipla (a six-seater version of fiat 600, a fića with weaker engine), then cute chicks in miniskirts (though, british fuglies as well), well everything.
Facory „Bambi“ was founded in Požarevac, makes Plazma biscuit, a cheaper copy of italian Plasmon biscuit. Though over time it became clear that the cheaper copy is not in any way worse than the original; the guy who put together the recipe became famous in his trade, and Plazma is still manufactured.
Some 106.710 new cars and trucks were registered in SFRY; „Crvena zastava“ (red flag) sold 52.000 (of which probably two thirds of fićas), employed 11.000 people.
„Male water“ under Konjuh (mountain) near Kladanj. Allegedly helps erection. It was probably a gimmick thought up by a handful of locals, to pass the winter and probably to develop local tourism. And the business took off, they even exported to Germany (though, as the joke said, every tank of water came with a few guys, as „spare parts“). It was never proven to have any effect whatsoever, but then placebo mostly works.
Religion was prohibited in Albania - churches, mosques and monasteries are repurposed. Albania seems like never having had any independent foreign policy, as they were founded as an italian protectorate, then after the war it joined the eastern bloc until they cunted out, when it switched its allegiance to maoism and became almost a chinese outpost. And they were undeveloped, a pooch can't find where to bite them, and shut tight, almost no news coming out of them. The only thing known was that they were building bunkers everywhere, including on beaches. Lots of silly jokes about them circulated here, e.g. „airforce alert - both airplanes raised“, „fighter plane down, pilot and stoker dead“, „why does an albanian submarine resurface every two minutes - the rowers need air“.
New cars appeared this year - Citroën Diane, the redesigned spaček, nice and substantially the same; Fiat 125, a puffed and improved tristać, which will appear here several years later, made in Poland; Moskvič 412, which became almost a legend. Soon teča Vidoje had one and I loved to sit in it and just fiddle with the controls when they'd come, even later when we had a garage.
Domestic movies: „Awakening of the rats“ (never saw it), „Feather gatherers“ (we saw it in a movie), „Boxers go to heaven“ (never), „Knife“ (never), „Restless“ (never, except excerpts, many years later), „Hasanaginica“ (later, on teevee).
„Love affair or the tragedy of a postal clerk“ is a special case, because it was one of those movies that everyone talked about and nobody saw them, it never came to the movies, at least not here. Of course, the problem does not lie in Makavejev, nor in the plot being somewhat bizarre, it's about Eva Ras (august 1966.) appears in one scene naked on the bed, having covered her cunt with a black cat. Well, we did see that one later, in the seventies, on television, the scene included and... what's the big deal, you raised a fuss over just this?
„Morning“ we saw in the movie on šećerana. Memorable prop blunder when a can of machine oil made by Ina appears in a scene. It's supposed to happen in 1941.
„When I'm dead and white“ I finally saw when I was old, on a computer.
„Holiday“ I saw never, „Birch“ on the teevee (and wasn't impressed, I'm not fond of tragic patriarchal stories, recommend them to those who need to be reeducated).
„Kaja, ubit ću te!“ (I'll kill you) is a special case. I remember seeing it on the teevee a couple of years later, with tragically bad sound, and I also didn't understand dalmatian enough then (which will be remedied when „Our little place“ comes), not to mention the (island) Vis variant. Then after 2020 I finally remembered how crazy this film was and found it and watched it at leisure, and renamed it for myself to „Kaja, ubit cu te!“, because that's how the natives on Vis speak. The film precedes Fellini's Amarcord by several years and yet it's the blueprint for it, at least in the part depicting the onslaught of fascism on the island. The unforgettable sentence by Antun Nalis: „traži san oljo di maslina, dobi san oljo di makina“ (I asked for oil of olive, got oil of machine).
5-VI-2020 - 6-II-2026