The first Western magazine that Soviet women were allowed to read

The 'Burda' magazine made a big splash in the USSR at the end of the 1980s. Even regular women could now not only create some stylish pieces of clothing, but also bring some of the "Western lifestyle" into their dull reality.

Life even in the late USSR was far from a consumer paradise. The identical unfashionable clothing and interior items that the masses could purchase at a store evoked in them a feeling of mon