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Their quality might have left a lot to be desired but their price was affordable. For a change Porro instruments produced in Russia, (BPC), Poland (PZO), Czechoslovakia (Meopta), Bulgaria (OMZ) or Romania (IOR) were quite available and popular. Only few could spend an equivalent of their yearly income, or even an income from even several years, on a set of binoculars. If you earned typically 10-20 USD a month, a device costing several hundred dollars was definitely outside your financial reach. If you lived behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War you could only dream about binoculars produced by such companies as Leitz, Zeiss Oberkochen, Nikon or Swarovski. In the Eastern Block, however, you can talk about a phenomenon of those instruments as they were wildly popular. Perhaps, in the eyes of people from Western Europe or the United States of America, they didn’t produce the best pairs of binoculars but still their price/quality ratio was excellent. Their factory was situated in Jena (an then in Eisfeld not far away from that city). In our series of articles concerning legendary binoculars the products of the Eastern Germany Zeiss had a place practically guaranteed.

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