Genevra Gerhart The Russian's World
Chapter Nine
Shopping / По мàгазинам
- Trade Unions
and Factories
- Shortage (deficit) goods
Factories often pay in kind
- Family and Friends
- Food raised at dachas
- Goods taken from workplace
- Always buy several (for friends) when you stand in line
- Hard Currency
- The Culture of the Line
- Finding the end of the line
- Finding the 'brigadir' of the line
- Always buy for all your friends & relatives
- Sign of Quality
- Never buy goods manufactured in December
- Always look for a January production tag
- The Kolkhoz Market
- Several in every city
- Very large, everything sold there
- Imported goods
- Prices are high but within reach
Flea Markets (толкучка)
- Street sellers
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