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1995. Beer bottles

Pushkin, lifts, and grammar – I had bigger fish to fry. A real man needs money. A lot of money. For… crisps, chupa chups, and a little later for the collectable Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle stickers.

Сheburashka[16] beer bottles were the answer to our meaningless summer existence and the absence of any pocket money. It made us a little more confident and even more grown-up. It was fun.

First of all, we had to know where to look for these bottles: stalls, bins, bushes and pubs. We were a valiant eco-squad scouring the whole neighbourhood. Sometimes even wouldn't even let one bottle split our grasp; we'd sit and wait for someone drinking a bottle to finish it to the end before giving us the empty glass.

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Also known as «Topple» in earlier English translations. It's a character from Russian children's literature and now a cartoon based on the 1966 story by Soviet writer Eduard Uspenskiy. The bottles were brown, just like Сheburashka, hence why we referred to the bottles this way.