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Re:A Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union by morelisp on Monday January 16, 2023 @05:10PM (#34406108)
Bananas particularly are a case where this is blindingly obvious.
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Re:A Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union by aga98mtl on Monday January 16, 2023 @05:38PM (#34406430)
Please elaborate. How would stopping banana cultivation help any of those countries?
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Re:A Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union by abrichr on Monday January 16, 2023 @05:54PM (#34406612)
Historically it would have meant avoiding a coup of the locally elected democratic government (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic).

To be fair, it's not clear whether it would have had any impact by the late 20th century.

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