Word: gastronomic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from kiwi fruit to Tabasco sauce. The trouble is, prices are so high that the minimum monthly wage of about 15,000 rubles does not even cover the cost of a kilogram of high-quality smoked salami, which sells for more than 16,000 rubles in one downtown Moscow gastronom store...
...what ails the Soviet Union is Marxism, what will cure it is the introduction of market mechanisms. But the Soviet people are not prepared for that sort of shock. True, a free market will put more goods on the shelves of the gastronom, or grocery store, but with state subsidies removed, prices will rise. As Nikolai Petrakov, Gorbachev's top economic adviser, told the Rabochaya Tribuna (Worker's Tribune) last week, "People accept rationing coupons and standing in line -- especially during work time -- but not price increases." And the housewife can now vote for a parliamentary representative able to stand...