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Consider these figures from the New York Times:  in the United States a medium sized automobile costs about 100 days wages; in Moscow it costs about 1,000 days wages.  In the United States a small refrigerator costs about 32 hours of work; in Moscow it costs about 343 hours.  An average washing machine costs 53 hours here against 204 hours in the Soviet Union.  Color television sets cost the equivalent of 147 hours for the American worker; in Moscow the price is 1,110 hours.

Believe!, Richard M. Devos with Charles Paul Conn. page 80