Blog mgsupgs: "To the death of Torgsin"

“In the early 1930s, the country took leaps and bounds towards communism along the road of industrialization. Well, since Russia never had its own high-tech equipment, purchasing it abroad required more and more foreign currency. Everything that could be sold was exported, and new sources of foreign exchange income were constantly being sought.

In 1930, during the next campaign to search for foreign exchange reserves, the leaders of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Trade came up with a simple and worldly wise idea - to organize the sale of goods of interest to foreigners not abroad, but on the territory of the USSR. It was primarily about furs, carpets and antiques. One shot killed two birds with one stone."