Posted by Richard Kadrey on September 12, 1997 at 09:29:14:
ECON - Not fucked in Russia
Workers at the Akhtuba factory in Volgograd in cashless
Russia were paid their February salaries in rubber
dildos reports the Economist. When they tried to sell
these goods - manufactured at the factory after it gave up
making marine navigation equipment - to local sex
shops, they found that "the market had moved on to
electronic vibrators, and insert dildos were
unsaleable."