born 1990 in an eastern european SSR, months before the dissolution

  • sima [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    when i was a little girl, we went to the village in russia that part of my family was from. like proper farm land. and i tried to buy milk at the village shop. everybody laughed at me for the whole week.

      • sima [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        every farm had cows. the shop only sold rubber boots and other stuff farmers wouldn't be able to make themselves

      • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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        2 years ago

        If this is the early 90s, then after the fall of the USSR the Russian agricultural sector basically collapsed from the withdrawal of govt subsidizes and shutting down of state owned farms. нет молоко

        • sima [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          this would be late 90s, which technically doesn't qualify as " the beforetimes, the long long ago" tbf