I always found the “someone from Soviet Russia went to an American supermarket and broke down crying because the shelves were overflowing with food” trope that anticommunists used super tone deaf and hypocritical. First of all, half that food is ending up straight in the trash and dumped in a landfill, either after sitting too long in someone fridge or right in the fucking store, and for the latter they are literally legaly mandated to shred the food and pour bleach on it to prevent people from picking it out of the dumpster. Also, that person from Soviet Russia definitely passed by that homeless person sleeping by the doors, but don’t feed him though, that can land you in prison! Also just the general fact that hundreds of thousands of children go to bed hungry in the richest country in the world, both in the 50s/60s all the way to now, in fact food insecurity is on the rise in modern times with all our technology. Say what you want about rations under socialism, at least you were guaranteed a ration no matter who you were.
That trope is really annoying, and also weren’t supermarkets in the USSR full of food and a wide variety of stuff to? I recall seeing some images from like this image dump showing what the USSR was really like and it showed some grocery stores full of a wide variety of food stuff
I always found the “someone from Soviet Russia went to an American supermarket and broke down crying because the shelves were overflowing with food” trope that anticommunists used super tone deaf and hypocritical. First of all, half that food is ending up straight in the trash and dumped in a landfill, either after sitting too long in someone fridge or right in the fucking store, and for the latter they are literally legaly mandated to shred the food and pour bleach on it to prevent people from picking it out of the dumpster. Also, that person from Soviet Russia definitely passed by that homeless person sleeping by the doors, but don’t feed him though, that can land you in prison! Also just the general fact that hundreds of thousands of children go to bed hungry in the richest country in the world, both in the 50s/60s all the way to now, in fact food insecurity is on the rise in modern times with all our technology. Say what you want about rations under socialism, at least you were guaranteed a ration no matter who you were.
That trope is really annoying, and also weren’t supermarkets in the USSR full of food and a wide variety of stuff to? I recall seeing some images from like this image dump showing what the USSR was really like and it showed some grocery stores full of a wide variety of food stuff
It’s also infantilizing and demeaning. “DPRK has no word for love” tier
shit