The deficit in the USSR

The word "deficit" was the most popular in the Soviet Union. In deficit was everything: clothes, shoes, food, coffee, tea, toilet paper, household appliances, soap, washing powder, building materials, wallpaper, plumbing and much more. All this was like a race, the race for the most necessary. All in the USSR ran and fetched something, someone agreed, went to some stores for Portuguese coffee, mysterious sausage. Or by agreement went with a strange uncle Vasya you went to the base of the German grinder.