As you know from the first arti­cle, the choice for per­fumes and other toi­letries really wasn’t there. How­ever, the sit­u­a­tion began to change from the mid1970s. The imports from the coun­tries of the so-called social­ist camp were enter­ing the Soviet mar­ket. Every woman still remem­bers an excel­lent Pol­ish per­fume “May Be”  –  they were extremely pop­u­lar! There […]

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The great short­age of almost every­thing required for nor­mal well being was one of the most dis­tin­guished fea­tures of the Soviet econ­omy. Surely, there was food, clothes and some cos­metic goods in the Soviet shops in 1950s-1970s but the vari­ety was incredibly poor.

How­ever, the phi­los­o­phy was that the Soviet peo­ple were used to com­par­ing their life […]

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