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I doubt it was to mock. Former east block countries had supply issues with meat. My experience is from Poland where the Party was not only glad that Catholics
by krzyk 5y ago
I doubt it was to mock.
Former east block countries had supply issues with meat.
My experience is from Poland where the Party was not only glad that Catholics don't eat meat on Fridays (and you are allowed to eat Fish, but if you don't have it you won't eat it) but also tried to introduce No Meat Monday.
BTW. In 80ties (don't remember exactly when) each family was receiving paper slips that allowed to buy meat (you had to give also money beside the sleep) and some other high value merchandise. If you had children you were given more such slips for meat (and probably other items).
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoYep, food coupons. It wasn't so bad in yugoslavia, but we still had coupons for stuff like gasoline. We also had odd-even days, where you could only drive your car on odd or even days (depending on your licence plate - so every second day).
- dsego 5y agoThis odd-even thing always comes up as an example of how things were bad in socialism, yet everyone fails to mention the context of a global oil shortage and that other places had similar policies, like in the US for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd%E2%80%93even_rationing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd%E2%80%93even_rationing
- tut-urut-utut 5y agoEven (West) Germany had these odd-even driving restrictions at the same time, so definitely not related to communism.