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Here is how it was working. In the Soviet Union import products were available in Berezka shops only. Those were selling them for a foreign currency which was forbidden in the USSR. The official rate of 1 dollar was less than 1 ruble, but there was no legal way to do such an exchange. Course there was a black market (Russians have never been a law-abiding nation) where you could buy 1 dollar for about 4 rubles. So if you wanted to buy a Japanese electronics in Berezka, you had to overpay its price in 5-6 times.
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