You are welcome in Soviet supermarket comrade! Please admire building before enter. Design is copy of Lenin's mausoleum
Lenin's mausoleum.
In Soviet supermarket shelves are always full. Enough beef for everybody.
"Five-year plan - earlier than scheduled!"
Five year plan doesn't quite deliver 600% increase in chicken production.
"Here's our profit!"
In Soviet Russia, supermarket pays YOU for food.
"Build your home with your own hands!"
Construction programme great success. Plenty of aisle-space.
"We will get from the virgin soil rich harvest!"
In Soviet supermaket large selection of vegetables comrade.
"We will raise each of them!"
Old cow has died. New cow being delivered by commissariat of agriculture next week.
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Due to great demand for chicken and lower than expected increase in chicken production, egg-laying chicken can be found in frozen food section. More eggs arrive after next five-year plan.
"If you want to be like me, just train!"
No fat comrades. Soviet supermarket pastry section encourages healthy low-calorie eating.
"Bread for the Motherland!"
Lonely Soviet citizen searches for bread. Beard is for warmth; heating will be fix soon.
Oh, wait a minute, this is not Soviet supermarket...
This is England.
Photographs taken in a British supermarket (5 Jan 2010) 12 hours before one-inch of forecast snow was to fall. The British take their weather forecasts very seriously, almost as seriously as their panic-buying. The next morning, one-inch of snow proved sufficient to grind the city to a halt.
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