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The Business That Saved Christmas: How Malls Helped Topple Communism

In the center of a bustling Christmas market on one of Warsaw’s busiest streets, in the heart of Warsaw, a young woman is selling homemade jewelry. As she approaches customers, her white-haired father patiently waits nearby. He has been “selling” these toil-intensive pieces of jewelry for more than two decades – an entire lifetime in many cases – and his daughter is following in his footsteps. What is a Soviet Union The Soviet Union was a country that was ruled by the Communist Party. The Communist Party controlled everything in the Soviet Union and it was a very strict society. In spite of this, there were some people that were able to make a living in the Soviet Union. One of these businesses was the mall. Malls were popular in the Soviet Union because they allowed people to escape the strict rules of the Communist Party. Mall shoppers could purchase items that were not allowed in everyday life. This allowed people to have some fun and relieve some of the stress of living in a cont