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Issue Number: 
306
Author: 
By Dmitry MOZHEITOV
Published: 
2002-02-01



Guilly's restaurant recently decided to return to the bad old days of the Soviet Union for a single day. On Jan. 25, anyone who came into Guilly's with Soviet money of any denomination printed in 1961 could buy a 'Spetszakaz' - a set of food items that were distributed among Soviet bureaucrats, CPSU members and employees with exemplary records. The set included three tangerines, nine Mishka na Severe candies, a 100-gram pack of Indian tea and a 160-gram tin of sprats ("sproty," a small, herring-like fish) in oil, from Latvia.

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