IN Moscow last week, a spotless, modernistic fish market opened on Komsomolsky Prospekt, enabling the average Soviet citizen to buy fresh caviar for the first time in recent years. Across from Moscow's city hall, an Italian-built, self-service supermarket went into operation, offering Bulgarian chickens, Spanish oranges, Moroccan sardines. Established shops blossomed with chinaware, meat grinders, bath towels and other goods that have long been scarce.
Muscovites loaded up while they could; they well knew the reason for the sudden abundance. It was obviously timed to impress Russian and foreign representatives in town for...
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