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You underestimate the inability of the Soviet regime to provide its own people with basic consumer goods. You would have a job and some money, but your money w
by inglor_cz 1y ago
You underestimate the inability of the Soviet regime to provide its own people with basic consumer goods.
You would have a job and some money, but your money would buy nothing, because goods were scarce. Even finding good shoes would be a challenge and you would need to cultivate relationships with warehouse clerks etc. to get some access to stuff before it was stealthily distributed by underground channels to relatives, friends etc.
Modern Americans would go absolutely ballistic if they came to a shop with empty shelves and a bored arrogant assistant who would jeer at their very question "I want to buy X".
- pavel_lishin 1y ago> Modern Americans would go absolutely ballistic if they came to a shop with empty shelves and a bored arrogant assistant who would jeer at their very question "I want to buy X". Reminds me of an old Russian joke. In stores, you'd typically go to one counter to get some produce weighed, then to a cashier to pay for it. So, someone goes up to the meat counter, and asks, "Can you weigh me out half a kilo of sausage?" And the guy behind the counter replies: "Sure, bring some in, and I'll weigh it out for you."
- inglor_cz 1y agoYeah, the old jokes are first class. "Capitalism is based on exploitation of a man by another man. In Communism, it is the other way round!"
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y agoAmerica is very egalitarian these days, even the rich women are empowered to exploit the poor women!
- cindyllm 1y ago[dead]