In the Soviet times there was a great short­age of all con­sumer prod­ucts. Clothes or food were no excep­tion. In order to buy some bread peo­ple were ready to spend hours and hours queu­ing up.

1983. A long queue into the footwear store. The length of the line implies that peo­ple would expect to buy imported footwear  which was of bet­ter qual­ity and fash­ion­com­pared with the Soviet stuff.

Queue in front of footwear store

(Year unknown). Long queue  in front of the store with a sim­ple sign­board “Bread”. It actu­ally meant that there was noth­ing else sold in there apart from the bread.

Queue in front of the Bakery

(Year unknown). Peo­ple force their way into a liquor store (Rus: “Vino”). Prob­a­bly it is hap­pen­ing right after the lunch break so the alco­hol could be con­sumed after work.

Liquor Store

And one more queue…

Source: germanych.livejournal.com (in Russian)

Pop­u­lar­ity: 23%

Related posts:

1. Sign­boards of Soviet Stores

Subscribe to the post comments feeds or Leave a trackback