Hello again, comrades and Genossen,
I have a quick question about the USSR: were basic consumables (bread, eggs, milk, meat, water, sugar and those kind of things) generally always available in Soviet stores? The situation probably got worse during the 1980-1991 period, because the economy was stagnating and living standards were way worse than 10 years before. My main focus is the 1965-1975 period, because this period was the peak of the USSR's economy and living standards were also very good compared to the other periods of the USSR. So, were basic consumables (bread, eggs, milk, meat, water, sugar and those kind of things) generally always available in the 1965-1975 period? Thanks (please do not reply with a Russian article, as I do not speak Russian), USSR
Soviet cogitations: 12389
Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 18 Apr 2010, 04:44 Ideology: None Philosophized
The article I sent you can be translated into English. Click the "translate this page?" button and you're off to the races.
Miss Strangelove: "You feed giants laxatives so goblins can mine their poop before the gnomes get to it."
Yes, I translated it, it was a nice article but didn't answer my questions, but I'll have another look.
Yes, it helped me quite a bit. It's actually quite strange, Americans or other very capitalist people might think that the USSR was in a famine with those statistics, but actually that's just the basic consumption you need to get by, right? People in the USSR after Stalin weren't in a famine, but there were shortages of something sometimes, and basic goods were generally always available.
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