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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 161667, member: 25&quot;]Prices so fixed they built them into the stuff&nbsp; was a Soviet thing. It was an attempt to control an economy by regulating everything from production by command (five year plans, etc) to fixed prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&nbsp; was a remarkable failure, even compared with US Prohibition. No one in the supply chain had any incentive to do anything but the least they could get away with, and to steal the most that they could get away with. The colossal cost of WWII really torpedoed the economy for general goods and after the war &#039;post war austerity was still the main feature when I was in Russia in the late 60s. They even had a non rouble economy for foreigners with dollars and the Nomenclatura, the top party people.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is not surprising that when it all went belly up, a few people managed to effectivly steal whole state industries and become the Russian billionaires we know and love today. When all private enterprise is criminal, you train a huge number of criminals, who carry on much the same when private enterprise is allowed again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, just sayin&#039;. You will not find fixed prices on Imperial stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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