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

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_demonstrations_in_Poland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_1981_hunger_demonstrati... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_austerity_policy_in_Romania#Food_shortages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_austerity_policy_in_Roma...