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Inventions are one thing, but mass availability and affordability are another. I recall seeing an interview with Mikhail Gorbachev where he talked about how emb
by nickff 6y ago
Inventions are one thing, but mass availability and affordability are another. I recall seeing an interview with Mikhail Gorbachev where he talked about how embarrassing it was that the Soviet Union could send men to space, but failed to produce pantyhose (of quality , in quantity).
- thesz 6y agoMikhail Gorbachev, as a person somewhat responsible for collapse of USSR, had an incentive to paint USSR in a certain light in his interview, wouldn't you agree? I grew in USSR (I was born in 1971 in Moscow) and I do not remember any scarcity of stockings.