Boris Yeltsin in American Supermarket

In 1989 Boris Yeltsin, at occasions only a Soviet parliament and Excessive Council member, has visited United States of America with an unofficial go to. This system of the go to consisted of visiting completely different landmarks like a Lindon Johnes House heart in Texas and many others, however Yeltsin additionally needed to see how common Individuals reside so he headed on to the grocery retailer he noticed on the road.  The journalists that had been with him on a visit had been telling Yeltsin was just about shocked by the range within the retailer and was waving his arms on a regular basis – like right here on a photograph. Inside you possibly can see extra images of him in a retailer and in addition a brief video which will help you perceive why Yeltsin was stunned that a lot:

The man which adopted him on a visit was telling later that this grocery store shocked first Russian president an excessive amount of. “He was heading residence on a jet and was sitting holding his head with two arms saying – They had been mendacity to the folks on a regular basis, telling the fairy tales, inventing one thing – however every thing is already invented!”, was mumbling Boris.

Once they obtained into the shop, as one of many guys bear in mind, the supervisor appeared and helped them to see the shop intimately. “Yeltsin requested what number of completely different items are in retailer. The retailer workers answered that there’s round 30,000 various things on the market now. Yeltsin then mentioned – did I get the quantity appropriately? Does my interpreter misheard the vendor?”. So he was actually in a shock take a look at his face and on a supervisor’s face. The Lev, man who was with him, says that Yeltsin earlier than by no means was in a Western retailer.

“Within the produce part we had been shocked how good are the fruits and veggies!”, remembers Lev.

And I promised to indicate you video to assist simpler perceive why the long run president was shocked, okay right here is the video:

Right here, a typical Soviet grocery retailer, no, not typical, this was a luxurious grocery retailer with carts. Regular Soviet retailer had no carts and also you needed to ask a vendor handy you one thing every time you needed to purchase stuff. Have a look and hope you possibly can perceive why Yeltsin was shocked.

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