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Adidas sneakers were hard to find back in the USSR, but Adidas shoes for country skiing were readily available (the beauty of socialist economy). So quite a few desperate people purchased ski
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Fast and furiously patriotic: Young Russians rev up Soviet-era Lada amid defiance over Western sanctions
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