Remember USSR Standing In Line For A Day For A Loaf Of Bread

[DanieRains]

The good old days.

[Wicked Blue]

1. I remember mailing baby bottles and formula to my Estonian cousin

because she couldn't get them during the Soviet years. She sent me outlines of her kids' feet so I could mail shoes for them.

[spooky3]

2. In the 1980s we had neighbors who went to Moscow to visit

Relatives. They talked about buying tomatoes and vegetables for them because produce was scarce and expensive.

The neighbors had escaped during the Carter administration and talked about being put to work in “agriculture” (eg farm hands) even though they had engineering degrees.

[thinkingagain]

3. And this is what trump and friends want

America to be “ just like Russia”