Even though I was born only in 1979, I still remember what store shelves looked like in those days.

No, they weren’t empty. There was an abundance of goods, but by and large they were all monotonous and standard. This is not surprising, because under the USSR there were practically no small factories and factories, and no one had ever heard of private business.

And launching a huge production for the sake of producing a limited batch of goods in those days was considered simply impractical. It is for this reason that millions of Soviet houses had the same furniture, dishes, appliances and even food.

But a person always wants to have something special, and in their natural desire to stand out from the crowd, our mothers and grandmothers sought to find something that friends and acquaintances did not have, and one of these types of goods was crystal.