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The Soviet System and the Hard Currency Bookstore

The easiest way was just to exchange dollars, right? The exchange rate was 60 copecs to the dollar. Other times we would buy American goods or Western goods from them. We would trade your jeans for a Soviet flag. And we would sell those jeans, I don't know, for a couple hundred rubles. and we bought the Soviet flag for 50 copecs.

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