Originally Posted By: obsessed-with-doubles
BTW: wasn't Czechoslovakia commie by 1950?

I wonder who would be buying nice SxSs there at this time? Seems odd.

Does anyone have any insights into the commercial/economic culture of Czechoslovakia right after WW2?

Did they practice a commie-lite style of government, with privately-owned shops coexisting with state-run institutions?

Once more thing - what can you guys tell me about Lovena?

Thanks


OWD


You guys have very distorted picture of living under commie. No, of cause, it wasn't good, but there were a lot of people and not high ranking commie who could let themselfs to buy Purdey's and Holland's. I don't talk about Belgian best guns or others that were much cheaper, than English guns in commie countries at the time. But there were allways several best guns in shops in big cities and usually for the price of Russian car such as Volga or Lada.
I was young, but I still remember it.

Geno.