During the Cold war, from 1958 to 1988 , some 50000 Soviet citizens traveled to the US, most touring an American supermarket on their trip. The supermarket showcased how a free-market economy could deliver abundant, affordable food and became a metaphor forf what capitalism could do and comunism could not. In his autobiography, Bois Yeltsin gave this account of his 1989 vist to a supermarket in Houston: "When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons , and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with desair for the Soviet people. That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty! IT is terrible to think of it"
-Adapted from the Long Tail - by Chris Anderson (page 45)
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