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was 140-150 to one, and Pepsi was 25 or 30 rubles a bottle.
This change in price was seen in all goods, and of course the people didn’t receive a change in wages during the month that I was there. The situation has a potential for being a bad one, but the people over history have been very good at coping, and I think they will survive this.
The people didn’t appear to be ready to get involved with the government. I thought for a while and realized that the people had gone straight from serving with no rights under a Tsar to Communism.
They don’t know how to get involved in government, but because television is becoming a mainstay in most Moscow homes, I think that through some simple advertising this problem could be overcome
For now, though, the people only see Peristroika as a change that ran up 'the1 price of goods and made the ruble nothing compared to the dollar, where before, the ruble was almost equal to the dollar.
The event that really made me realize all this was when I bought a T-shirt the day before I left. The shirt bore a vodka label, and the first thing that Alex pointed out to me on the shirt was the price of seven rubles. Alex, not speaking any English, then said, “Perestroika,” and smiled. Vodka was approximately 150 to 200 rubles for a bottle while I was there, and it rose steadily with everything else.
I got what I wanted from this trip. I learned that the news media does paint a tinted picture of Moscow to sell a story, and I learned that the people of Russia are similar to Americans in their mannerisms, friendliness, and attitudes toward work and play.
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