Visiting And Shopping Inside And Outside The Former Soviet Union.

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I've sorta lost touch with the Soviet collecting sphere as of late due to a confluence of circumstances (Nota Bene quit the business, I sucked up all of the Soviet stuff for sale at the shows around me, and DougD hasn't had much as of late either). While engrossed in a particularly horrible research project at work here today, I wandered off into some of the internet's Soviet-material stands to poke around. What I found was that most of the e-shops I know of were essentially boarded up or had virtually no items in stock. Even that New Jersey guy has about nothing on his shelves, and he always had a ton of stuff, including some super-high-end wares. So where did everything go? Are collectors hoarding everything? Are prices in Russia/the weak dollar keeping everything in Russia? What's the deal?