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It isn’t really useful to compare the Soviet Union in it’s final 1-2 years of total crisis to the USA. You see videos of empty supermarkets, lines and many othe
by _5yv8 4y ago
It isn’t really useful to compare the Soviet Union in it’s final 1-2 years of total crisis to the USA. You see videos of empty supermarkets, lines and many other problems. But this certainly is not an accurate depiction of normal life during most of the Soviet period. The 70s and early 80s did not have a lot of the problems that arose in 1989.
- thriftwy 4y agoSoviet Union was rolling downhill starting from 1965, with lines and empty stalls. "Иван Васильевич меняет профессию[1]" is a 1973 movie and it depicts shortages, scarcity of consumer goods and "having to know people" to get decent service. 1. http://imdb.com/title/tt0070233 http://imdb.com/title/tt0070233
- dmitriid 4y ago> The 70s and early 80s did not have a lot of the problems that arose in 1989. In late 1980s the systemic problem became a problem everywhere. However, food stamps were already a thing in some regions in mid-1970s. And the "sausage trains" were a well-known phenomenon since at least early 70s. This was a term for the trains that people would take to buy stuff in larger cities like Moscow that didn't exist in smaller cities like Ryazan or Tver.
- thriftwy 4y agoTo note, "smaller city" are still a half million population province capitals. It's not the smaller towns where people could live off the land for the most part.