This product, new to TpT, consists of 7 pages of text which takes a humorous look at life in the Soviet Union from the 1970s - 1991 (when the Soviet Union broke up). Topics that are dealt with include: the Black Market, emigration, "lines for toilet paper", shortages, freedom of speech, make work jobs, health care, etc. Much of the info comes from: (a) a student trip to the USSR that I chaperoned in 1988;(b) a book by Yakov Smirnov, a Soviet comic who emigrated and wrote a book entitled: Amer