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> 80 years of communism and everyone was lining up for their daily stipend of bread to eat and soap to wash themselves with. Bread was plentiful and cheap even
by chokolad 10y ago
> 80 years of communism and everyone was lining up for their daily stipend of bread to eat and soap to wash themselves with.
Bread was plentiful and cheap even in 1989. I don't remember lines longer than 3-5 persons in a bread store. Meat was problematic.
- hourislate 10y agoYeah...plentiful. Those lines must of been for iPhones...
- akytt 10y agoThat's curiously right to an extent, you know. Bread had been a symbolic thing for communists from very early days. It's price was heavily subsidised and it was one of the very few food items I actually never remember there being a shortage of. Might have been different in other parts, though. Quite in contrary: bought the cheap bread to feed their animals. One of the many curious perversions of the Soviet economy.
- chokolad 10y ago> Yeah...plentiful. Those lines must of been for iPhones... Dude, I lived there, and at the time described it was my responsibility to buy bread and other food staples for our family.