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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IvaPan, post: 4775459, member: 78949&quot;]Any, thanks for this historic briefing, very interesting. I like to investigate the historic background of items very much, more than I like to wear the jewelry.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I highly doubt that there were Hippies here under the communist regime. It is a long story, I can&#039;t explain in several sentences but in the 1960s and 1970s all people here were &quot;happily building the bright communist future&quot; - that was the official paradigm. And on the contrary to the West, it was forbidden to have different views and threatened with huge social consequences if someone disagreed and was fond of the Hippie movement. Here we were not allowed to have long hair (even the girls not to mentions the boys) and to wear blue jeans, and to listen to The Beatles or The Rollingstones. It was all &quot;rotten capitalist propaganda&quot;. Up until the Perestroyka. I have read disclosed State Security (the Bulgarian KGB) archives with instructions to the officers how to deal with young people who tend to incline towards &quot;Western models of behaviour&quot;. Believe me, not a pleasant thing to read.</p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, the goods sold here in general and the jewelry in particular were from Comеcon, no Indian stuff was available. On top of the total deficit of everything, from ladies&#039; pads to cars.</p><p><br /></p><p>So if the item belongs to 1960s or 1970s, and not to the 2000-2010, then it becomes even more interesting for me how it came here.</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. It is amazing how unable I feel to explain all the reasons why it is very unlikely a Hippie thing sold here in 1960s or 1970s. It will take a whole book to justify my premise <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A different hypothesis comes to my mind - at some point around this time USSR (so we too) had very good relations with Indira Ghandi so it might be that goods form India were imported and sold in small quantities &quot;under the counter&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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