“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?
Us civilised australians meanwhile just get into fistfights over toilet paper
And yet whenever we have shortages in the west (cough cough the pandemic) its nothing bad, just a little oopsie woopsie fucky wucky consequence of all this freedom we have.
I also wait in line to get groceries, also I have to pay for the groceries. Also I wait in line because there are 10 registers but only 2 are open. There’s the self checkout that accuses you of stealing if you don’t place the item in the bagging area perfectly. Most people don’t know but you’re allowed to steal 1 item if you don’t scan it right by mistake because you don’t work there and haven’t been trained
Also the cost of food isn’t high or rising because of external sanctions but because privately owned companies are greedy
It's not even clear if these are actual shortages or panic buying. The fact that they're talking about non-perishables like sugar and buckwheat suggests that this is people stocking up.
If that's the case, it's no different than the covid-induced toilet paper shortages the West saw.
the ussr is when pigs shit on their turgid, engorged testicles
Since the source is Guardian (BTW no way I'm giving a click to these fascist swines), we can just ignore that rubbish till some Russian citizens from here say what is actually happening.
Also people are starting to buy more than they would "just in case" in other places too - say here in Serbia (no war or sanctions or any other thing happening, just typical war hysteria in the media) my mom is trying to convince me to stockpile food "because of the situation" - needless to say she and her sister are watching lots of TV daily. War indeed is good for business in so many ways!
People are basically stocking up on everything - buckwheat, sugar, canned food, water, etc. Some stores are trying to ramp up prices by pretending to have a shortage, so there is a grain of truth.
Oh absolutely, I can imagine since even here it's kinda similar - it's just the context plus many other "grains of truth" that Guardian won't tell us.
:geordi-yes: Waiting in line to pay money for popeyes chicken
:geordi-no: Waiting in line and you get free groceries at the end
Is this true?
"In 1940, queues were practically outlawed: there could be a queue inside a store during its working hours, but queues outside the store were punishable by fines."
Its from a website on queue management very :ukkk:
https://www.qminder.com/blog/queue-management/queues-in-ussr/
Never heard about it in Russia, and local anticommunists really love making shit up.
Reminder that The USSR had a more nutritional diet than the Americans in the 80s https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp84b00274r000300150009-5
archived for those who don't want to click the :cia: link
https://archive.ph/As9R2
LMAO
The first photo in this article is from 1992 when the USSR dissolved in 1991.
