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  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I don't know, but if I recall correctly the average USSR citizen in the 80s consumed more calories than the average US citizen in the 80s.

    • Terkrockerfeller [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, fwiw more of them were carbs (bread and potatoes probably) and selection was non-existent (my mom often jokes they had 2 varieties of chocolate/salami/tea/anything else: Available or Unavailable), but they certainly weren't starving