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But no cars, washing machines, microwaves, electronics, furniture, apparel, and on and on. Kinda sad for the size of the country. I bought some Soviet stuff af

But no cars, washing machines, microwaves, electronics, furniture, apparel, and on and on. Kinda sad for the size of the country. I bought some Soviet stuff after the fall of the USSR, because it was unique and interesting. One item was a telescope, one was a brand new rotary dial telephone manufactured in the 1950s, and one was a mechanical clock reputed to be from a submarine. I'm only sad that I abandoned my phone line (as I only received spam calls on it) and so my Commie Phone is a nice, but useless, desk ornament.

lesostep 6mo ago
>> no cars actually there was car export. Google "britain lada". I also remember some south american countries having cars from USSR. Cars were mostly exported to countries that didn't have car production. >> electronics, furniture, apparel There was a lot of trade going on, but in most countries local electronics and apparel was the better option. You have to understand, the economy wasn't that global at the time. A lot of countries had american knick-knacks mostly because american soldiers brought it in and exchange it for local knick-knacks. Most of the global trade was for materials.