However, under these conditions there was a thriving black-market of covert repair men. Through hearsay, one would to know the home address of such a “miracle worker,” meet him at home, and posed as friends and not as customers (since private businesses were not allowed), ask for the repair of the dryer. These “customers” typically didn’t pay with paper money, instead with more valued commodities such as high-quality meat, imported bananas or oranges, rare booze or, as my dad often did, with cleaning clothes which he found in the trash of the textile manufacturing plant he was working for. bastiat.mises.org/2014/02/a-slice-of-life-in-the-former-east-germany/
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