Is it true in Russia they have to stand in line for an hour for toilet paper? I had a teacher tell me that once.
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lizizhere
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Maybe along time ago, we Brits did during the war ( so I'm told, I'm not quite that old ). Both countrys have changed alot since then....I'm told that Russia has electricity and everything :-)
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Back in the USSR days, shopping would take hours and there were many shortages. I once read that they didn't even have sanitary napkins except in special stores for the elite - the common folks had to use cotton wool! Today, the big cities have a lot more variety. I don't know what percentage of the urban population is fairly well-off by whatever standards, but I'd imagine that the smaller towns aren't doing nearly as well.
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Not anymore. Back in the heyday of communism in the USSR there were many things they simply could not obtain, and others, like toilet paper, they had to wait in huge long lines to receive. Of course, even then it was only the middle/low class "normal" people who had to do that. Communism is long dead there, and a semblance of capitalism has arisen... really, Russia is a fairly normal sort of country at this point, perhaps not as rich as the USA or Britain, but first world.
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