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Aussies in the USSR: "A girl from our tourist group sold her jeans to a stranger"

Soviet Union Moscow 1991 perestroika

Source: Elisabeth Agostino

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Australians share their stories about their trips to the Soviet Union in the late 1970s and early 1990s.

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Long queues, food shortages: Australians reflect on USSR visits as sanctions threaten new Cold War

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Aussies in the USSR: "A girl from our tourist group sold her jeans to a stranger" | SBS Russian