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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;thaivic, post: 1090384, member: 23991&quot;]We once had a family holiday in Dubrovnik in the 1980s. The old walled city was beautiful but still under repair after an earthquake in 1979 and they still hadn&#039;t completed restoration from the most devastating one in 1667!</p><p>As for market economy? Not when we were there. The only local supermarket was almost bare with a few packs of butter and a few stale loaves of bread (the locals apparently bought theirs fresh from the bakers in the early hours of the morning before that day&#039;s supply dried up). Oh, but there were plenty of shoe shops - if you liked them made out of cardboard.</p><p>There was a shopping center (for tourists and, no doubt, for local government officials only) but I seem to remember they would only accept British pounds or US dollars.</p><p>Then after the fall of communism they fell prey to civil war and hyperinflation. This note from 1993 would probably have been enough to buy you one of those stale loaves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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