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These products pack Moscow's several malls and posh stores. Products that do not make it into these classy establishments spill onto the streets. Around every metro stop and in every underground crossing are makeshift kiosks and tables, called, lapki, that sell newspapers, fruit, books, CDs, videos, clothing, hats, groceries and whatever else the market will bear. This is capitalism at its rawest. Muscovites no longer need to wait in line for stale bread, and they know longer need to trade kitschy revolutionary pins for American blue jeans...
...they have today, eat twice as much fish and meat, cook in four times as many shiny new pots and pans. There will be more sausages for boiling, better meat cutlets, and, for the "little Soviet consumer," a most splendid assortment of "well-wrapped candies: prozrachnaya (fruit drops), gusinye lapki (goose feet), mishka kosolapy (clumsy bear) with fruit and nut centers...
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