Quote (Prox1m1ty @ 27 Feb 2024 16:08)
"Eastern European" and "Former Soviet Union" covers dozens of countries. It does not mean Russia. Do not conflate the two.
Romania experiencing famine when they took an extra two decades to shake off their communist rulers doesn't mean shit when speaking about Russia.
There has been ZERO "foreign aid" given to RUSSIA in nearly 20 years. As I said, when we were still providing them "aid" it was in the form of assisting them in cleaning up and modernizing nuclear sites.
Russia has not had a food issue since the collapse of the USSR. Other nations, aka former soviet states, who turned anti-Russia and pro-west being unable to feed themselves when even Ukraine, the most corrupt former-Soviet state had no such issue says more about the West than it does about Russia.
Keep making shit up though. Eventually you'll stumble onto something smart based on luck alone.
Quote (Prox1m1ty @ 27 Feb 2024 16:08)
-By Steven Greenhouse, Special To the New York Times
Nov. 27, 1990
"Martina Bogdanova, manager of Food Store No. 19 in the Sverdlovsk District, shrugged her big shoulders as she tried to explain why all but one of the 16 refrigerator cases in her store were empty.
"I've been in this system for 25 years, and I've never seen things this bad," she said, gesturing toward the hourlong line of glum Muscovites waiting alongside a case of anemic-looking meat.
As winter approaches, Moscow has been gripped by increasing desperation and bitterness over food because the lines and the shortages in state shops are widely considered the worst since World War II. Muscovites are so scared of worsening shortages and general chaos that they are hoarding as much food as they can stuff into their small apartments."
I'll wait for you to catch up.
So to attempt to prove your made up, bullshit point that post-communist Russia has dealt with "famine", you quote a source saying that the USSR had empty store shelves?
You do realize the USSR collapsed in 1991, right? It feels like you're being willfully stupid. Seriously. Make shit up all you want, just admit you're making it up. It's fine.
This post was edited by InsaneBobb on Feb 27 2024 05:17pm