Clothing/Shoes/Weather Gear: In 1985 You could have taken any of your old jeans, T-shirts... with you ! Young people in the streets would have offered you high prices, even in $ sometimes, to get these Coooool things ! - But controls when entering Leningrad had been strict, and could you have taken 3 yeans one over the other to get them out ?
There was a certain market for western goods,althou it was not allowed to have foreign money - some people did not care at all.
Updated Nov 4, 2002
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