You're listening to an airwave media podcast.

It's a great price for this great car.

I don't know.

On the southeast of Moscow, near an industrial area,

a Russian man haggles with a central Asian man in a skull cap,

while a Georgian talks up a young man in western-style jeans.

I have a few other buyers.

I don't know.

It's not going to stay long.

It is, for all intents and purposes, a used car lot,

and it's right in the middle of the Soviet Union,

and it's captured by New York Times reporter in 1980.

How old is the car? What is the price?

These are almost forbidden words in a communist country,

where speculation is against the rules.

And yet it happens.

A yellow shagooly sedan sells for $13,000 American 1981.

While of Olgo sedan with a new cassette player,

a radio, a hot item, almost $34,000 1981.

It's not quite illegal.

There's that joke about the fellow who goes to buy a car

in the Soviet Union, and he goes to the counter,

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