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A bit of Russian trivia:

 

Back in the Soviet times, with planned economy, for every item manufactured in the country there was a government-planned supply, a government-planned demand, and therefore - a government-established retail price. Usually that price was marked on the product during the manufacturing process.

For example, book publishers used to put the retail price on the top left #corner of the back cover.

 

This is a collection of works of Maxim Gorky, one of the most prominent writers of the early XX century. Published in Moscow by the Pravda Publishing House in 1979, these #books were then sold in bookstores at the state-established price of 1 rouble 40 kopecks.

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