![]() ![]() It’s been a lucrative business for sellers in former Soviet republics who work out of their homes and have easy access to an industrial supply of Soviet-era artifacts.Įven with export duties, they say, they’ve been able to turn profits of up to 500 percent on legitimate Soviet articles sold via online marketplaces like eBay and Etsy. To be sure, vendors say online demand for vintage communist-era relics has been booming during the past decade, driven mostly by buyers in the United States. The popularity of the HBO miniseries Chernobyl has bolstered a niche market within an online cottage industry - the sale of Soviet-era memorabilia linked to the infamous 1986 nuclear power-plant disaster.
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