No Brooms in GUMs:
SOSIN, GENE
NO BROOMS IN GUMs V. Kamenev, director of GUM, the state-owned department store in Moscow, recently admitted that "for the past six months customers have been complaining that in our department...
...NO BROOMS IN GUMs V. Kamenev, director of GUM, the state-owned department store in Moscow, recently admitted that "for the past six months customers have been complaining that in our department store it is impossible to get an ordinary broom handle...
...Of furs and jewels they sell enough To Mrs...
...In Moscow's State Department Store--abbreviated GUM-We cannot buy an ordinary handle of a broom...
...Georgie Malenkov-Now, comrade, such a spectacle Is slightly dialectical: If bourgeois stuff is salable, Why isn't there available A simple, proletarian-type handle of a broom...
...Of scents there is a plethora: They sell "Svetlana's Breath" or a Variety of other fancy Paris-type perfume...
...Gene Sosin...
Vol. 37 • October 1954 • No. 40
