M'яco-Moloko
When I was a kid there was a milk store on every street, and a bakery and a deli in the town I lived in.
We stood in lines to get some sugar, sunflower oil or bread for hours.
The word ‘deficit’ was probably the most popular word. A very Soviet one!
When Ukraine gained its independence, the streets of our cities turned into big markets where you could buy almost everything: from homemade milk, fresh meat, freshly-caught fish and draft kvass…to batteries and baby rompers.
That was the transition from the Soviet planned economy to the western market economy.
Along with the economy, western culture came to the post-Soviet space in the form of Hollywood movies, music, video games and erotic magazines.
The place we lived in was the point of collision of two tectonic plates. And at that very moment a new culture was born with no analogues in the West or in the East.
Only there I could feel truly free.
