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So… people have to explain most basic thing in politics often, and you think its a flex?

Ok, so you can trust “the masses” only if they support their government or policies you like. If they observe incompetence, corruption or oppression by their nonNATO state its a NATO psyop? Not sure if that’s as strong an argument for socialism as you seem to think.

“Well-supplied” compared to what?

Compared to this broad choice of vinegar on the shelves.

Would you say that stores in most of the capitalist world were well-supplied?

Quality wise? Fuck no, obviously. But there is at least food one could steal if not buy. There’s enough so that theres abundant waste to run free soup kitchens and the likes. As opposed to there being not enough, while food is exported from your country. Yes capitalist economy is terrible, but for some there is a framework of comparison. One you chose to ignore/deny.

Generally my point is exactly that living experience of a soviet satellite state was not much different from that of a capitalist colony. There’s no food? To bad. Workers rebel? You drive a tank over them.

This does not negate atrocities of capitalism, or imperialist experiments and induced famine. It’s just that this was mirrored under another banner, one you consider incapable of harming it’s subjects for some reason.

As opposed to the communist “the masses of socialist states were tricked by CIA propaganda into fighting against their own governments”?

Yes, if you have very little, you can still have less.

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Where did they work, and did they live in Moscow? Some regions or particular stores by key plants were much better supplied, but honestly I’m not sure if you could find one family in USSR that would claim stores were well supplied in the 80s.
Also I come from one of the satellite state. Food was taken out from the country, while there were protests over look of food in the stores. Kinda hard to claim it did not happen. There were rail carts welded to tracks to by workers trying to stop it…

And yeah, Russia was an absolutne shitshow both before and after, no question about it. I’m just addressing oversimplified vision of what money meant in state capitalism.

Go for it, but please consider the platform you use for that carefully and get as many partners as possible beforehand - gives much bigger chances it reaches more people.

Pracowałem przy kampaniach społecznych, w razie czego służę doświadczeniem.

Even if this won’t push it throughout it stars people talking about it which is already good.

Also; used to work in a small polish school that run everything on Linux, only windows was a VM for some state software for documents.

Ex soviet block kid here, even got CCCP stamp in an old passport.

This might be true, but it might be worth considering that by late 70 it would not really matter that much. You could hardly get anything with the money left, basic food products included.

Buying meat in a store would be a thing of a chance or you got nasty scraps, and there was really little other options beyond popatos and a few other very basic foods. In my country most of 80s people would que for most of the day to buy toilet paper, and one your run around the city based on rumor on where something could be gotten. This created a massive black market, but there prices would make an average pay worthless. And also any western foreign currency would be worth much more than local, as they were key for smugglers, anyone looking to escape to the other side and tightly controlled (if you were even given a passport and were allowed to travel abroad you could buy a very small amount of currency, much below what would be needed to sustain oneself). Anyways stuff like this, institutional inertia and stiffness, plus repression of any attempts at change created a feedback loop of a massive shadow economy and corruption that chocked the system and created a deeply pathological culture that has been an issue in the region since.

Uuu, an integrated slop reader?

It is, but only earlier in the night when my mind still grammars.

tl;dw: yes

Dunno, that nip hole tho…

edit: Not a comment on the very relevant and apriciated OC paintwork!