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Originally Posted by FL 4Motion
No, it was shitty as hell. The stories I could tell, one day me and rusty need to get together and swap stories of our younger days before I forget them all. 
Lines for bread, black market for Levi’s and jordache (sp) jeans, fist fights between moms at the commissary over the last bunch of bananas bc you could only get what was in season and not even sometimes. Smuggling TVs and movies into the country hoping the commie guards with ak 47s at the border weren’t gonna search our car and would respect my dad’s passport. |
My gf grew up in the former Soviet Union. She said this past couple months of shortages was nothing compared to when she was growing up. Whenever the store had food to buy, all the neighbors would gather and cook whatever someone bought and share the meals.
Winter time came, each person was rationed sugar, the amount depended on how important you were to the communist party.