• emizeko [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    food shortages

    ubiquitous anticommunist bullshit. I hate how it's everywhere soaked into everything like liberal filth

    • DoubleShot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Russia had something like 5 major famines that killed ~40 million people in the 19th century, but no one talks about "tsarist food shortages" that stopped under communism.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Like the past thousand years of Chinese history has included a yearly provincial-level famine, but Mao is uniquely evil for causing the last famine by trying to break that cycle.

        • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          As I understand it the famines in China didn't get really bad until the British got them hooked on opium and drug lords started having it grown instead of food.

          The most important thing Mao did for China was get rid of the warlords

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          trying

          I'd say his policies succeeded in breaking the cycle :mao-wave:

    • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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      1 year ago

      Which is ironic, because excepting the one immediately after WWII, the only Russian food shortages in living memory were the direct result of capitalism.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        and child hunger in the USA was a problem that whole time and still is! it's infuriating

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Lol communism no food, I say as my family and I huddle in our almost empty coal rolling Chevy silver-A-do'h waiting in line to go to a church-ran food ration distribution center with hundreds of other families on the 10-lane super-highway in the dark because the power grid went down because it's snowed in Texas and our anarcho-capitalist government thought it was government overreach to put regulations onto power-producers to weather-proof their facilities after the last time this happened.

      At least we got God and freedom :freedom-and-democracy:

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Isn't it true though? Isn't mayonaise a Great Depression food in the US?

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      The first mayo that didn't make me gag was a vegan brand, I became pretty fond of mixing it with soy sauce and sriracha for sushi.

    • Praksis2nd [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      our mayo is completely different from whatever you guys in the us have so I always assume that's why you dislike it

  • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    i bet every time yankees here go on and on about boiled vegetables and mayo there's some slav comrades just doing the :side-eye-1: face lmao

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Let me check how Russia's revolution is going, sure 100 years later things must be-

    OH SHIT, OH FUCK, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED

    WHY DOES EVERYTHING REEKS OF PIZZA

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    1 year ago

    fellow 'why the fuck is it so much harder to take a screenshot without the damn volume bar getting in' enjoyer

  • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    let's start a culture war where like the Left is against Mayonnaise so the Right eats mayonnaise like straight up just to own us and then their arteries clog in a hilarious fashion

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Communism no food so we survived on mayonnaise.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, it's like Russia, a bunch of Eastern Europe and then Chile for some reason

    Probably something to do with Pinochet

  • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Russian salad has been a well documented thing since like the early 1800s. Russian salad is pretty much American potato salad with all kinds of pickles and shitloads of fresh dill. It's almost like economic and environmental context, trade, and culture shape foodways.

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    This is the shot, and that article from the other day about people dumpster diving for food in dark and freezing Texas is the chaser