Berezka stores were perceived in Soviet society both as a standard of consumption and as an example of social injustice. In the book of Anna Ivanova, retail foreign exchange trade in the late USSR for the first time becomes the object of historical research. The author considers the reasons for the appearance of Berezka stores, describes the categories of Soviet citizens who had access to "closed" foreign exchange stores, and the image of foreign exchange trade in official discourse and among consumers.