Estoplast was a lamps and electronic manufacturer in Estonia from 1959-2003. They produced quite many units and items. I am wondering where they ended up geographically. Where the lamps/switches seen in Poland in the soviet times/maybe still are in some places? Are these something people born before the 90s remember?
Even during communist time in Poland, Soviet electrical equipment required Polish safety certification to be used in Poland.
Most of the Soviet devices didn’t have one and Soviet makers didn’t care to obtain one. That is why there weren’t too many Soviet appliances in Poland.
The only difference was if we had no local counterpart and we were forced to import some devices from USSR, in which case Polish government obtained the certification at its own initiative.
There were some Soviet devices from private import or small volume trade from bazaars, but they were technically illegal, since they didn’t have the aforementioned certification.
For example I remember even from early 1990s Soviet/Russian devices with single layer insulation cord. In Poland these were illegal since 1970s at least, as Poland even during communism followed western standards of IEC and other.
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Estoplast was a lamps and electronic manufacturer in Estonia from 1959-2003. They produced quite many units and items. I am wondering where they ended up geographically. Where the lamps/switches seen in Poland in the soviet times/maybe still are in some places? Are these something people born before the 90s remember?
Even during communist time in Poland, Soviet electrical equipment required Polish safety certification to be used in Poland.
Most of the Soviet devices didn’t have one and Soviet makers didn’t care to obtain one. That is why there weren’t too many Soviet appliances in Poland.
The only difference was if we had no local counterpart and we were forced to import some devices from USSR, in which case Polish government obtained the certification at its own initiative.
There were some Soviet devices from private import or small volume trade from bazaars, but they were technically illegal, since they didn’t have the aforementioned certification.
For example I remember even from early 1990s Soviet/Russian devices with single layer insulation cord. In Poland these were illegal since 1970s at least, as Poland even during communism followed western standards of IEC and other.