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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IvaPan, post: 8017085, member: 78949&quot;]Sure, both were valid. Propaganda was as important as hard currency <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The bottomline is that the goods HAD to be of good quality - for both reasons. Which by no means was the case domestically or in Comecon, in the conditions of total deficit these markets (although in the sense of the Western political economy, they were not markets) absorbed everything, even the poorest quality. And still the deficit remained. There were numerous apocrypha stories and folk jokes devoted to this specific feature of the communist economy - poor quality of goods.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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