Detsky Mir department store, 1991

Moscow, USSR. A customer's order number written on a palm to remind of a place occupied in a queue as most of the goods have become scarce during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The economic slump resulted in massive shortages of everyday goods and downfall in the living standard of citizens. Sergei Mamontov/TASS

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Customers Dissolution Downfall Mamontov Massive Queue Remind Resulted Scarce Shortages Slump

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