- Title: U.S.S.R.: A SHOPPING SPREE IN MOSCOW.
- Date: 1st February 1976
- Summary: 1. MV Pedestrians in crowded street. 4 ft 2. MV Pedestrians 6 ft 3. MV Phoppers past shop windows 9 ft 4. MV Peectrians 11 ft 5. MCU Man pulling trolley loaded with goods 15 ft 6. CU Dolls and toys in shop windows (2 shots) 19 ft 7. MV Square filled with pedestrians one carrying a speak of fruit (2 shots) 25 ft 8. MCU Man carrying box Zoom out Mv. 29 ft 9. MV People waiting on pavement 31 ft 10. CV Traffic in a square 36 ft COMM: "It happens every time a Congress comes around..crowds jammed packed on the payments, the shop windows suddenly smarter, and a whole range or goods which no one has been able to get for months miraculously appear." "Simple necessities like lavatory paper and imported detergent ..all too often unobtainable.. ...presents for the children from the huge toy shop called..... ..fruit by the sackful..earlier this week their were even grape-fruit........ No just Muscovites benefit... people come in from neighbouring districts...even from other republics ...all appropriately attired..to show the Congresses foreign visitors that all the talk of shortages just isn't true......life really does get better every day." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: U.S.S.R. MOSCOW
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- Country: Russia
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