No, it looked like this. Prices were FIXED, but money
was printed, so whenever there was SOMETHING, there
was a line. Then there was a long period when there was
literally nothing. I remember you had to wait a day to get
into McDonald's in Moscow. Based mainly on curiosity, of
course. Russians waited a day, went in, spit the food, and
said they tried "American stuff" -vbg-
There was a line culture -
you had to know places where certain things were sold,
and stand in a line. Weekly grocery shopping took a day,
and that was during better times. When times got worse,
food simply disappeared altogether (right before SU
collapsed). We grew our own food. -g-
And then, when people saw a line, they often joined without
knowing what's up, cause a line meant something good on
the other end. Talk about herds, a prime example. -g-
When the fix was lifted, stuff reappeared, but prices shot up
to da moon.
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