Contents © Mark Carrot* 2013

Socialist state controlls distribution of goods and basic groceries. The market prices are centrally established by beaurocrats as well. Private enterprise is officially portraited as a domain of speculators. Plenty of inexpensive alcohol, little, if any, of valuable basic necessities. Over thirty years after emerging victorioius from the horrific WW II, after four decades of building communist utopian dreamland, people are provided rationing cards.