For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.
Anatoly ChubaisDuring the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.
Anatoly ChubaisI joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.
Anatoly Chubais