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By Kateryna Khinkulova and Olga Ivshina

Many people in the Soviet Union were not really poor, but they simply could not afford the basics, because there was never enough of them.

To buy a car, you had to wait on a waiting list for years. To buy a coat or a pair of winter boots, you often had to stand in line for hours, only to find that your size was already sold out.