GalleryWhat Can a Worker Buy?
With every passing year workers in Soviet Estonia are able to buy more and more with their wages. Consumption of foodstuffs and manufactured goods is steadily growing.
The factory worker is now better fed than in former days.
Whereas in 1937-38 a member of a working-class family consumed, on the average, 100 lb. of meat and meat products, in 1957 the average consumption had already reached 117 lb. The respective figures for milk are 359 lb. and 464 lb.; for butter, 132 lb. and 20 lb.; other edible fats, under 3 lb. and nearly 92 lb.; for sugar and sweets, 50 lb. and 76 lb.
The total number of calories consumed has increased by 18 per cent.
The workers also buy far more manufactured goods than before. In 1936 per capita purchases of all kinds of fabrics (woollens, cotton textiles and linen) were 13 yards. In 1957 this was already 33 yards. More than twice as much footwear is now bought as formerly.
The Soviet citizen will be able to buy still more in the coming seven years because his income will go up substantially.
"Estonia, Wonderful Present—Marvellous Future" was published by
Soviet Booklets, London, England, in December, 1959, as part of the series
"THE FIFTEEN SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS OF TODAY AND TOMMORROW."
We do not endorse the Soviet account of historical events or their circumstances contained therein as factual.
Soviet Booklets, London, England, in December, 1959, as part of the series
"THE FIFTEEN SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS OF TODAY AND TOMMORROW."
We do not endorse the Soviet account of historical events or their circumstances contained therein as factual.
