From the forum:
Dubolom: The intelligence services could have done something.
In Koretsky, a similar case was mentioned: in the late 1970s, in the USSR, soap disappeared massively from the shelves and then for some time it was not in sale at all.20 years later, already under Yeltsin, a journalist dug to the truth for what the GRU was trying to remove it.
It was already in the 80s, then along with soap disappeared men's socks and women's socks. Now it is clear - they caught free neutrons.