Soviet Grocery Store 1986

[Ceiling Cat]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=17b_1391723098

I was in the USSR in the mid 90s, it was not uncommon to walk into a store and see only a mountain of beets. That would be their only product to sell.

 

[Art Mann]

Maple Leaf Gardens, 2011, smack in the heart of the decadent west:

 

[Aardvark154]

People would frequently purchase something they really didn't want if it was in stock and they would then attempt to barter it for something they did.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

I did not see any water fountains when I was there, I did see these disgusting water dispensers that people would have to put a coin in and water would come out. There would be this melamine cup chained to the dispenser for anyone to use to catch and drink the dispensed water.

 

[dirkd101]

Ummm......

I think you have your dates mixed up with, um....your beets. Mid 90's? I think not.

USSR didn't exist anymore in the mid 90s.

Good point Al. Didn't they cease to exist in 87-88?

And what's wrong with beets anyways?

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Good point Al. Didn't they cease to exist in 87-88?

And what's wrong with beets anyways? [/QUOTE

OK, former USSR. Whats wrong with beets? Try eating it for a month.

 

[danmand]

There were a couple of Maybach's parked outside the hotel I stayed at in Moscow last I was there.

 

[afterhours]

There were a couple of Maybach's parked outside the hotel I stayed at in Moscow last I was there.

I wonder what percentage of Canadians understand what Maybach means without googling.

 

[ig-88]

the brunette in line was hot (2:58)

 

[dirkd101]

Good point Al. Didn't they cease to exist in 87-88?

And what's wrong with beets anyways? [/QUOTE

OK, former USSR. Whats wrong with beets? Try eating it for a month.

You have to learn to be more creative then, if you're eating nothing but beets for a month.

 

[Aardvark154]

There were a couple of Maybach's parked outside the hotel I stayed at in Moscow last I was there.

Moscow and Saint-Petersburg particularly the former, and to a lesser extent Volgograd and Rostov and perhaps Nizhny Novgorod are the bright spots in an a country that otherwise a time traveler from the reign of Alexander III would not feel out of place in.

 

[Adam_hadam]

There were a couple of Maybach's parked outside the hotel I stayed at in Moscow last I was there.

Some one at the auto show a few years back. Didn't do a thing for me.