 A "Belweder" cost 7000 złoty at the time when the average monthly salary was between one and two thousand, yet, like many consumption goods in the communist economies, it proved very sought after and hard to buy.This seems strange to Westerners used to free market economies; the explanation is that although the TV set cost a few monthly salaries, communist economies produced "so" little in the way of consumer goods that people normally had vast amounts of money saved, simply because there was "nothing" else to buy.Accordingly, demand constantly outpaced supply (remember that centrally planned economies, lacking a private sector, did not naturally increase supply to meet demand or raise prices to reduce demand).