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Stationery items that were in short supply in Soviet schools
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Soviet schools faced a shortage of stationery items that were envied by students. Children dreamed of imported pens, pencil cases, and other stationery supplies that were hard to obtain.
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- Shortage of stationery in the USSR
- Popularity of imported pens
- Multicolored pens
- Pencil cases with multiple sections
- Erasers that children were afraid to use
USSR · schools
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