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> You mean your are aware of an actual famine in the UUSR in the late 80s?

I have lived through the time period and have experienced the shortages first hand...

Can you say the opposite?, that life was good?, that people did not starve?, where did you learn that?

wqaatwt 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Did they literally starve in the 80s? I mean I’m not rejecting you experience it would just be interesting to hear more..

> that life was good?

Never made such claims or that there were no shortages. Famine is something else though..

I appreciate your participation here: I did not know that ordinary Soviet citizens were chronically short on calories in the late 1980s.

	▲	wqaatwt 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		According to data that we have from Western sources (of course still take with a grain of salt since getting accurate statistics from the USSR on any topic was near impossible) average Soviet citizen consumed only slightly less calories than the average American. Of course they ate much more grain products and potatoes and relatively little meat (and AFAIK it wasn’t very good quality at all anyway). And of course tropical and out of season fruits were a huge luxury..