In addition to a couple Škoda brand vehicle stores, new cars and trucks were out there for the duration of socialism as a result of Mototechna and Tuzex. Although crowns had been purchased in the first store and the aim of the offer you was automobiles from socialist makes, the next store only offered cars and trucks for distinctive coupons, the so-referred to as discount codes, but also had autos from Western brands. What was Tuzex’s giving practically 50 % a century in the past? Seem at the gallery.
In the gallery there are vehicles and selling prices of the Tuzex provide corresponding to the yrs 1973 and 1974. We remind you that in the outlets whose identify derives from the connection “domestic export”, you could only acquire with particular vouchers, the so-termed vouchers. The name Tuzex koruna also appears in the formal rate lists. Vouchers could only be received in exchange for overseas currencies, when theoretically a voucher was truly worth a crown.
Historian Adam Havlík of the Institute for the Research of Totalitarian Regimes in his posting “A put adored by some, damned by other people. The international trade firm Tuzex and its action in socialist Czechoslovakia” writes that nominally a voucher was equal to two crowns, so the state financial institution acquired again unused Tuzex crowns. Those people who experienced no foreign forex had to buy bonds mostly on the black industry, in which the exchange rate was, of program, many moments greater. Havlík states that 1 Czech crown corresponded to four or six crowns of the normal Czechoslovakian currency.
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