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herbstein on May 22, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: When Boris Yeltsin Went Grocery Shopping in Clear ...

Do you realize those videos are from after the Soviet economy crashed, right? I'm not trying to apologize for the terrible economic system employed by the Soviets, but to call that video representative of 40 years is just wrong.

Fins on May 24, 2019 | [–]

It wasn't any better before.

9nGQluzmnq3M on May 22, 2019 | [–]

1990 is before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and highly dysfunctional food distribution was a characteristic of all socialist economies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_1981_hunger_demonstrati...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_austerity_policy_in_Roma...

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