• downpunxx
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    -61 year ago

    IS that why there were bread lines in Soviet Russia, because of all the plentiful nutritious calories freely on offer, lol, fuck off

    • chaogomu
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      71 year ago

      It depends on the timeframe, in the 1980s, there were no bread lines because food was plentiful.

      During the main timeframe where there were bread lines, the US had soup lines.

      Life under the Soviets was a marked improvement for the Russian people compared to life under the Tsars (not so much for the satellite states of the Soviet Union, those people were often actively harmed by being part of the union.)

      • @unfreeradical@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        American media and government would never represent soup lines as a systematic failure, instead of poverty being deserved.

        How easily the narrative emerges that the same situation in one case reflects repression and in the other generosity.