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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 45972, member: 25&quot;]The CCCP is the equivalent of USSR in Cyrillic. It is a souvenir miniature samovar. </p><p><br /></p><p>The label is the sales receipt, it appear to have cost 9 roubles (6 kopecks?)</p><p><br /></p><p>It dates from a period when every item in the Soviet Union had a fixed price. </p><p>If the fixed price was less than the cost of production, the shops were usually empty of that object. </p><p><br /></p><p>You could look on it as symbolic of the failure of a state run economy, and thus of some associated historical interest, but I can&#039;t really see any other value in it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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