Coming to a GUM store near you

All these products were available to Soviet consumers, or so said the official books published by the official publisher (the State) and printed by the official printer (the State).

http://englishrussia.com/2011/11/30/what-they-were-supposed-to-sell-in-the-ussr/

We in capitalist America had no idea workers and peasants had it so good.

The goods pictured were available between 1956-61, so the official (State) writers and publisher said. I would have liked to have had some of the toys.