> For a Soviet citizen, not yet familiar with how the market economy worked, the game was a sort of guide to capitalism. It's not like people just didn't know

> For a Soviet citizen, not yet familiar with how the market economy worked, the game was a sort of guide to capitalism. It's not like people just didn't know how market economies worked, especially when this game was made. There were still individual and family enterprises in the Soviet Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprises_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprises_in_the_Soviet_Unio... And by the 90s "blue jeans" integration was to the point that we shouldn't pretend Soviet gamers would be agape at the intricacies of capitalism in the wee simulation in Kommersant lol.