Re:A Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union
by huhtenberg on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @05:09AM
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> Then he saw the bananas. He really wanted bananas.
This part is weird. Soviet Union was getting a firehose worth of bananas from Vietnam (?) in exchange for weapons. If there wasn't a lack of something in post-Perestroika times, that'd be the bananas. They weren't in every shop, but they were very much accessible and inexpensive.
This part is weird. Soviet Union was getting a firehose worth of bananas from Vietnam (?) in exchange for weapons. If there wasn't a lack of something in post-Perestroika times, that'd be the bananas. They weren't in every shop, but they were very much accessible and inexpensive.