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When bricks were rubles

Planet Money

CHAPTER

What Happened When the Soviet Union Collided

When the soviet union collapses all those not full industries are competing in a market, and they need to turn a profit. Things just kind of freeze up. If anyone wants to buy your nice, but ridiculously expensive camera lenses, then, llof a sudden, your company doesn't have a cash flow. Lots of formerly soviet companies suddenly had no money and no way to pay each other. Which brings us back to that shoe factory ind that giant pile of bricks that barry saw in 19 92. So where did he get the bricks? I think somebody couldn't pay for him in money, and he got bricks instead.

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