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Rick Suddeth: USSR: Moscow 1989 Grocery Store
Rick Suddeth
A short amateur clip of a Moscow grocery store from 1989, filmed by a visiting production worker. The shelves look sparse, and the uploader adds a note on the hard-working people living under a system that did not reward them.
Cited as visual evidence of Soviet command-economy scarcity, usually in arguments about choice and central planning.
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