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Stores are opening in Russia, where it looks like they will officially sell “sanctions”. But not for everyone, but only for foreigners. While experts are sure that over
Today it is not customary for us to call a shovel a shovel and use established meanings. The usual, obvious, intelligible has now been renamed and entrusted to new words, but nevertheless retains the same content. So, for example, “enemy of the people” is now called “foreign agent”. That’s why everyone in the news about Duty Free for foreigners routinely caught the old meaning of the Beryozka store.
But in the USSR, not only a foreigner, but also compatriots were allowed to enter it. Having special money. There were several monetary systems in the Soviet Union, and one of them turned the currency into Vneshposyltorg checks, which took foreign money away from the privileged caste that visited foreign money, and in return gave not rubles, but separate notes that made it possible to buy foreign goods. Soviet people who worked abroad and received wages in other people’s money were not entitled to currency upon returning home and were obliged to hand over dollars, pounds and tugriks, receiving excellent notes, backed by luxury goods that aroused the envy of the country. Vneshposyltorg’s checks in Beryozka allowed to buy every dream of a Soviet person: jeans, cutlery, a tape recorder. The main advantage of Beryozka was that it traded only in foreign goods. There was nothing Soviet there, with two exceptions.
The first exception worried foreigners – caviar. It was always on sale and available every day. The second exception worried only about the Soviet people – cars. Our domestic cars. And among them, the Volga, prohibited for sale to ordinary Soviet people. Although the UAZ off-road dream was not even sold for checks.
In addition to access to the forbidden, the main circumstance was the purchase of a car without a queue. It became an obsession that drove people to tantrums and depression. But it meant the realization of a dream. In the USSR, the main dream was the car. No apartment, no house, no jeans. Car! Color television came in second, followed by a Japanese cassette recorder. Since the rules in the USSR were rarely changed, half of the country tried to get a long business trip abroad to receive a salary in other people’s money, immediately convert it into checks and managed to come and buy goods . One or two contracts in the Vietnamese swamps, the Angolan wilderness or the Mongolian steppes made it possible to save for two or three points from the national podium, where the first track of all Soviet power was unshakably dominated by a car.
But living abroad sometimes had to starve. There were cases when the family postponed the entire salary, up to anemia and chronic diseases, threatening to be deported to their homeland within 24 hours. The dream of a car required discretion and alternative food sources, such as packets of buckwheat or pasta from home.
But on return, our man without a queue bought a Zhiguli or, if there was enough money, a Volga in the very first month. But there were no concessions to the price. In numbers, the car cost the same as it did in the union lineup for decades. The last Soviet price of the Volga was 16,500 rubles, and the same 16,500 checks. Now, by revitalizing Beryozka, slightly modernizing its meaning and content, we have the opportunity to return the store’s former privilege – daily access to scarcity. Adapted for the spoiled public. Now domestic cars are not needed in “Beryozka”. I would like the store to be completely foreign, and only sell imported cars.
As soon as we were banned from cash dollars and euros, a black currency market immediately arose in the country and it became possible to buy foreign money in any amount. As soon as a coveted product appears in the “birch” Duty Free, a market of services, documents and passes immediately arises, giving us access to the restricted area under the guise of full-blooded foreigners.
And if, due to the stagnation of the car market, foreign cars are brought into this new Beryozka (as long as they sell alcohol, tobacco products, perfumes and cosmetics, confectionery, jewelry, smartphones and watches), which have become inaccessible to the rest of the population, there will be immediately appear a decision on how to pretend to be a diplomat and buy a car, which again became the main dream of our man.
It is curious that the deputies of the Duma are categorically against the revival of “Birches”. For example, the leader of the Just Russia party, Sergei Mironov, said that “the initiators of the reconstruction of Beryozki just want to make money. People have built connections abroad, almost everyone can supply goods, there is a demand for solvents, but since imports are limited, they decided to please only the elite. However, I am absolutely certain that officials, by the hook or by the crook, will also be crawling into these stores. But it is very strange that the government has taken this dubious step. The standard of living in the country is falling, there are many dissatisfied people in society, and here it is. Recreation of “birch trees” I find it outrageous! You can’t do this!”
Today it is not customary for us to call a shovel a shovel and use established meanings. The usual, obvious, intelligible has now been renamed and entrusted to new words, but nevertheless retains the same content. So, for example, “enemy of the people” is now called “foreign agent”. That’s why everyone in the news about Duty Free for foreigners routinely caught the old meaning of the Beryozka store.
But in the USSR, not only a foreigner, but also compatriots were allowed to enter it. Having special money. There were several monetary systems in the Soviet Union, and one of them turned the currency into Vneshposyltorg checks, which took foreign money away from the privileged caste that visited foreign money, and in return gave not rubles, but separate notes that made it possible to buy foreign goods. Soviet people who worked abroad and received wages in other people’s money were not entitled to currency upon returning home and were obliged to hand over dollars, pounds and tugriks, receiving excellent notes, backed by luxury goods that aroused the envy of the country. Vneshposyltorg’s checks in Beryozka allowed to buy every dream of a Soviet person: jeans, cutlery, a tape recorder. The main advantage of Beryozka was that it traded only in foreign goods. There was nothing Soviet there, with two exceptions.
The first exception worried foreigners – caviar. It was always on sale and available every day. The second exception worried only about the Soviet people – cars. Our domestic cars. And among them, the Volga, prohibited for sale to ordinary Soviet people. Although the UAZ off-road dream was not even sold for checks.
In addition to access to the forbidden, the main circumstance was the purchase of a car without a queue. It became an obsession that drove people to tantrums and depression. But it meant the realization of a dream. In the USSR, the main dream was the car. No apartment, no house, no jeans. Car! Color television came in second, followed by a Japanese cassette recorder. Since the rules in the USSR were rarely changed, half of the country tried to get a long business trip abroad to receive a salary in other people’s money, immediately convert it into checks and managed to come and buy goods . One or two contracts in the Vietnamese swamps, the Angolan wilderness or the Mongolian steppes made it possible to save for two or three points from the national podium, where the first track of all Soviet power was unshakably dominated by a car.
But living abroad sometimes had to starve. There were cases when the family postponed the entire salary, up to anemia and chronic diseases, threatening to be deported to their homeland within 24 hours. The dream of a car required discretion and alternative food sources, such as packets of buckwheat or pasta from home.
But on return, our man without a queue bought a Zhiguli or, if there was enough money, a Volga in the very first month. But there were no concessions to the price. In numbers, the car cost the same as it did in the union lineup for decades. The last Soviet price of the Volga was 16,500 rubles, and the same 16,500 checks. Now, by revitalizing Beryozka, slightly modernizing its meaning and content, we have the opportunity to return the store’s former privilege – daily access to scarcity. Adapted for the spoiled public. Now domestic cars are not needed in “Beryozka”. I would like the store to be completely foreign, and only sell imported cars.
As soon as we were banned from cash dollars and euros, a black currency market immediately arose in the country and it became possible to buy foreign money in any amount. As soon as a coveted product appears in the “birch” Duty Free, a market of services, documents and passes immediately arises, giving us access to the restricted area under the guise of full-blooded foreigners.
And if, due to the stagnation of the car market, foreign cars are brought into this new Beryozka (as long as they sell alcohol, tobacco products, perfumes and cosmetics, confectionery, jewelry, smartphones and watches), which have become inaccessible to the rest of the population, there will be immediately appear a decision on how to pretend to be a diplomat and buy a car, which again became the main dream of our man.
It is curious that the deputies of the State Duma are also categorically against the revival of “Birches”. For example, the leader of the Just Russia party, Sergei Mironov, said that “the initiators of the reconstruction of Beryozki just want to make money. People have built connections abroad, almost everyone can supply goods, there is a demand for solvents, but since imports are limited, they decided to please only the elite. However, I am absolutely certain that officials, by the hook or by the crook, will also be crawling into these stores. But it is very strange that the government has taken this dubious step. The standard of living in the country is falling, there are many dissatisfied people in society, and here it is. Recreation of “Berches” I find it outrageous! You can’t do this!”
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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