‘We’re going back to a USSR’: long queues return for Russian shoppers as sanctions bite
www.theguardian.com
After an hour and a half queuing for sugar, or worse still fighting for it in a market, Russians are feeling the effect of shortages caused by an unprecedented cutoff from the world
  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    “It’s sad and it’s funny. It feels like a month ago was fine and now we’re talking about the 1990s again, buying products because … we’re afraid they’ll disappear.”

    Gee I wonder what happened in the 1990s that caused economic and social devastation in Russia?