Everyday Light Rye Bread

There was a funny phenomenon during communism in Eastern Bloc countries: hard currency stores. These were places where, for foreign currency, you could buy Western goods: clothes, radios, tobacco, you name it. They started off serving the elite, but by the 1970s, they also catered to the general public. In the People’s Republic of Poland, there were a couple of these shops, namely Pewex and Baltona. Baltona didn’t start off as a hard currency retail shop though—it was originally a supplier