From the Mundane Luxury page.
Imagine believing soldiers would steal washing machines of all things lmao. Like just picture some guy lugging one around along with 30+ kg of gear or trying to stuff it into the crew compartment of a BTR-80 along with himself and his squadmates.
It's a classic thing against [bad country]. During the cold war they said the same shit like how bad it was that East Germans had no coffee
Well no real coffee! Only cheap powder one!!1!1 and muh no jeans and bananas as well! The horror!
Of course they didn't have as much tropical fruit, they didn't overthrow socialist governments to get it cheaper
why doesn't the larger country simply grind humans from the weaker country into dust for cheap banana? are they stupid?
They never even got to have the wonders of Nescafe
No fr I watched that decent-ish spy show from Germany set before the re-unification (literally Deutschland '83, '86 and '89) and tried to hammer home how bad it was they couldn't get the same treats that the West Germans had. The funniest part was the last season of the show where they were like "Walls are bad, Mr Trump! We should know because we're German!" in the end of season montage.