A grocery aisle stunned a Soviet politicianSourced
After a space-center tour,
he made an unscheduled supermarket stop.
During a September 1989 US visit, Soviet politician Boris Yeltsin stopped at an ordinary Houston grocery store after touring the Johnson Space Center. The range of goods shocked him; he later wrote about the experience in his memoirs.
An everyday shelf
made the lasting impression.
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