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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facade of the building are the bold initials G.U.M.-for Glavny Universalny Magazin (Principal Department Store). G.U.M. is Moscow's answer to Macy's, Gimbels, Sears Roebuck, Woolworth and A. & P., all rolled into one. Scheduled to open next week, but already three weeks behind schedule, it is being hailed in advance by the Soviet press as "the biggest and the best in the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Muzhik & the Commissar | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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