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Consumption In the Soviet Union.
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CONSUMPTION IN THE SOVIET UNION "I shop, therefore I am" proclaim the cheap t-shirts and refrigerator magnets sold at the enormous markets all over Moscow, where low-quality consumer goods from China and Turkey are sold and fake labels of of well-known designer companies flash before the eyes of consumer. At the end of the 20th century Moscow is becoming a consumer paradise like any other big city in the world. Although the markets are still a dominating part of the scene, all sorts of small boutiques and great shopping malls appear with something in store for everyone.The t-shirt slogan is now appealing to the Muscovite and consuming becomes becomes a part of the persons self expression which was virtually impossible some years ago when the Soviet Union stilll existed and consumption as it is seen now was a part of Western reality not Soviet. In the Western view of consumption it is...
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