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That's extreme generalization and is not based on reality. I will assume the author never been to Eastern bloc. Breadlines are a thing of just end of 80's. So 5
by myth_drannon 3y ago
That's extreme generalization and is not based on reality. I will assume the author never been to Eastern bloc.
Breadlines are a thing of just end of 80's. So 5 years max of entire history of the region?
I find the culture was less individualistic. Now of course it shifted but still core values remain. And each part of the bloc has variations of course.
- xyzzyz 3y agoLines for literal bread were only 80s thing to be sure, but general shortages of everything, bribing officials to be advanced in a queue to get apartment, or a car, or bribing shopkeepers to get dibs on building materials, or bribing doctors to get better care, or bribing nurses to get better rooms and beds, has been a constant throughout most of 20th century.