“Perhaps, but we have been the subject of organised International embargoes! It is a capitalist ploy to sow unrest among the Soviet people. They have been trying it in various ways for fifty years, but our resolve to succeed is too strong for them. Anyway, the choice, as you call it, is only an illusion. You go into a Western supermarket to buy shampoo and you are confronted with a hundred different brands and types, but most of it is made in the same factories for different clients who stick their own labels on the containers and try to persuade you it is better than the others with advertising.
“In reality, it is not better, it is the same. Sometimes, the advertising and the packaging cost more than what’s in the bottle and the consumer is made to pay for that without knowing it. They s
