| Summary: | Item based on interviews conducted with defectors and immigrants in Western refugee camps and immigration offices, or Western travelers returning from stays in East European communist countries, supplemented with information collected through Radio Free Europe (RFE) correspondence with anonymous sources from behind the Iron Curtain. This item was transmitted from the Istanbul field office.
This field report was assigned the following topical and geographical subject headings by the RFE/RL: Romania; Industry -- Consumer Goods; Standard of living -- Food; Foreign Trade -- Foreign Legal Trade; Living Standard -- Housing; Trade -- Shoes; Trade -- Consumer Goods; Standard of living -- Rations; Industry -- Artisans Collective; Industry -- Sovietization an
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