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liuzhou

liuzhou

Moscow's palatial Yeliseyevsky food hall closes after 120 years

 

I'm taking this one personally!  I lived in Moscow in the late 1980s and visited this place. At that time, the USSR was on its last legs and stores had almost nothing to sell. Russia wasn't short of food, but the infrastructure to get it to the city was bankrupt and corruption endemic. Food trains and trucks were lined up outside the city unable to get in.

Only high ranking party members and pampered foreigners like me could get food easily.

But the building was beautiful.
 

liuzhou

liuzhou

Moscow's palatial Yeliseyevsky food hall closes after 120 years

 

I'm taking this one personally!  I lived in Moscow in the late 1980s and visited this place. At that time, the USSR was on its last legs and the store had almost nothing to sell. Russia wasn't short of food, but the infrastructure to get it to the city was bankrupt. Food trains and trucks were lined up outside the city unable to get in.

Only high ranking party members and pampered foreigners like me could get food easily.

But the building was beautiful.
 

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