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| Lenin pin made in USSR or made in China? |
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| “I said export world revolution not revolutionary cheap pins to the world” |
What happens when a nominal communist state is making communist memorabilia of a former communist state? Yes, the communist memorabilia market run by artisans in the former communist state collides. Exactly what is happening in Russia where Chinese “Soviet Union”-era products are flooding the souvenir market. Tourists think they buy something authentic buy a fake low cost product from China.
Read Khristina Narizhnaya’s ‘Made in the U.S.S.R. is now made in China’ article for The Moscow Times here.