Also the "WHAAA DA CORPORASHIUNS" coming from Sovietboos simping for mega state owned enterprises which were way more shady. They don't hate big corpos, they just hate the fact they're privately owned in the market economies.
Their Entire ideology and worldview was evaporated by stepping into in an American corner store, something at the time most Americans lived 5 minutes from was unbelievable for the most powerful soviet leaders. IIRC they thought the CIA had stocked the stores before they got there and made a few stops at a few different stores.
I know this is but it's always fun to read about the absolute shock of soviets visiting a US supermarket and realizing that it's not even some kind of special location or anything, it's just a normal supermarket, one of thousands upon thousands, open to regular people every day. Such a store would be a national treasure in the USSR but it's just some random suburb in the US lol.
When we were already returning to the airport, the devil pulled us to look into a typical American supermarket. Due to how busy we were, we hadn't had a chance to visit any of them before. It was called Randall's Supermarket. From our group, only Boris Nikolaevich and I had never been to this kind of trading establishment. Moreover, this was not a metropolitan, much less a New York store and, according to our standards, a very "ordinary" provincial one. If, of course, Houston can be considered a province.
Getting off the bus, I began to look for a crowd of people and something similar to our line. However, there was no queue - neither around nor in the store itself. This is a one-story building made of light metal structures. Naturally, none of the service personnel knew about our arrival and therefore there could be no talk of any "showing off". An ordinary day, an "ordinary" assortment, "ordinary" visitors...
The abundance of light immediately struck me. And in general, the color scheme of everything was so bright and impressive that it felt like we were descending into the very depths of a kaleidoscope. I was also fascinated by the abundance of flowers - juicy, and vibrant, as if they had just been cut from a flower bed. Moreover, the flowers are not for sale, but as a decorative element.
As soon as we entered the supermarket, they immediately invited someone from the administration. From somewhere in the belly of the utility rooms appeared a very handsome young man in a snow-white shirt, neatly combed and, of course, smiling. It was the chief administrator. We introduced ourselves and said that we would like to get acquainted with the work of the store.
No problem: the administrator gave us a young saleswoman as an assistant, and she led us through the aisles. Naturally, the main thing that interested us was the assortment. And in this regard, Yeltsin asked questions to the store employees. The figure they named literally shocked us, and Boris Nikolaevich even asked again: did he understand the translator correctly? And the administrator repeated once again that the range of food products at that time actually amounted to approximately 30 thousand items. When we walked along the rows, our eyes didn't know where to stop. I assumed different things, but what I saw in this supermarket was no less amazing than America itself.
Some of us started counting the types of sausages. Lost count. I remembered our sausage shop on Krasnaya Presnya, where back in 1963 you could buy "Brunswick", "Stolichnaya", "Tambov", "Uglich", "Krakov" and as many other types of sausages. Then it seemed to me that this was the limit of human dreams and that it was in that store that the first signs of communism hatched. True, over the years, the store's shelves began to empty and now only memories of its bright past remain. I remembered that store and compared it with this one in Houston, and I realized that the abundance to which Khrushchev was leading us had passed us by. At that moment (in Houston), all three hundred research institutes, departments, and laboratories that were engaged in researching the advantages of socialism over capitalism could convince me, but they would also be powerless. American practice, using the particular example of a supermarket, looked a hundred times more convincing than any domestic theory. Yes, not by bread alone... Not by sausage alone, not by cheese alone... By the way, have you seen red cheese, brown, lemon-orange? How many types of cheese do you think we've seen in Houston? What about ham? All this unimaginable delicacy that everyone can try right in the store and decide whether it's worth spending dollars on it? You can't count the names of sweets and cakes, you can't digest their variety of colors and their appetizing attractiveness with your eyes. And although I am trying to convey my impressions, I understand that this is only a pathetic attempt, because the word is powerless before the reality of the American proposal.
Occasionally I glanced at Yeltsin and noticed that this was a difficult test for him. And when a woman with a stroller caught up with him, in front of which there was a little boy, Boris Nikolaevich, apologizing, began to question her. Does she often go to this store? It turns out that only on Saturdays. Is your family big? Three of us: she, husband and child. What is your family income? The woman explained that she is temporarily not working and lives on her husband's salary, that is, three thousand 600 dollars a month. Yeltsin asked how much she usually stocks up on food? It turned out that this family spends about $170 on food for a week. From Saturday to Saturday. She still pays rent, insurance...
In the vegetable section we were literally shocked by the quality of the goods. A radish the size of a large potato is illuminated with bright light, and water is scattered onto it from small "spirits." The radish is literally playing, and next to it are onions, garlic, eggplants, cauliflower, tomatoes, and cucumbers. You want smoked eel - please... Would you like Lamprey? Or is your liver accustomed to sturgeon and oysters? Pineapples, bananas..
The confectionery section can stand for hours; it probably surpasses Hollywood in terms of entertainment. A huge cake representing a hockey arena awaited the customer on a stand. The player figures are made of chocolate. A real work of art, and most importantly - accessible, quite accessible.
In general, this is a hypertensive topic. For Boris Nikolaevich and me, visiting the supermarket was a real shock. My wife today (September 1991) at seven in the morning went to the store to buy milk, but there were lines, lines everywhere, you had to stand for two days for sugar. And this is here - in Moscow, in the second half of the 20th century, 73 years after the Great Revolution and just at the time when, according to Khrushchev's calculations, we should all already be living under communism. Or maybe what we have built in our country is true communism?
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When you were a kid did your parents get you a free cookie and a piece of cheese from the bakery and deli at shop n save and giant eagle as a treat whenever you went grocery shopping?
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100% - I grew up in Harrisburg area so it was GIANT not Giant Eagle. Completely different companies funny enough. She would let us get the free treats but we had to ask for them, she was pretty big on forcing the autism out of me
My mom was a total cause we were poor (couponer even) so it's always fun to learn childhood memories that were my mom bending the rules A highlight was going to Hershey World - not to be confused with Hershey Park, Hershey World was completely free minus parking.
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Oh thank frick lol I was at the grocery store today and I remembered that used to happen and I realized maybe that was just an us thing and wasn't normal at all and maybe it was annoying the wagies every time but they weren't gonna say no to some little kid?? This is actually a huge relief lol
My mom was a total cause we were poor (couponer even)
This 1000%. Incidentally a few years after I moved out we stopped being dirt poor and are now upper middle class. Not that it benefits me in any way The inheritance will be nice though.
Just googled Hershey World (we went to Park once and it was AMAZING at least when I was very small) and I distinctly remember the chocolate factory ride...
...which is in the ads for World and now I'm questioning everything. Does World have rollercoasters and mascots in Hershey costumes and shit?
He keeps doing this weird fricking laugh. I wish he would stop.
At the end he's bragging about buying a "week" of groceries for $104? Doesn't sound much less than here in the US tbh for people who cook food at home, plus obviously our wages are way higher than the average in Russia.
I do wish he would have gone somewhere outside Moscow tho. I'm gonna guess most Russians don't shop at some super upscale mall in Moscow.
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Yeah, during soviet times they straight up had segregated shops for western visitors that had much more shit than the stores for locals.
Its not technically still enforced, but russian guides, and someone like tucker definitely had a handpicked security service guide, and the police heavily push the media and such to go to the big flagship stores. Out in the countryside its gonna be several orders of magnitude more depressing, probably worse than in soviet times when you get to siberia and such.
Here I am routinely getting annoyed that my bumfrick nowhere grocery store out in the sticks doesn't have a particular kind of hot pepper grown in California
Yeah. I know a couple guys that gre up behind the iron curtain. They explained that its not like they were malnourished, the basics were always in enough supply (i think the literal bread lines were during the collapse). But luxury goods were rare and there was far less choice. A couple sorts of cheese and sausage. Local vegetables and fruit. You couldnt casually go to the store and grab a pound of kiwis.
I've been loosely connected to people bringing Cubans to the US and this is similar to what happens to some of them. I remember one guy came here during 2008 and he had heard about the big financial crisis and he was pissed that this was what we called a crisis lol.
The story is actually pretty sad. He was born homeless and lived in a garbage can. He is forced to stay in holes as reparations for the crime of being born a Jew. He is truly blessed to have as many as he does
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>I think being gay is an insult
Darn bro, it's 2021. Your cracks are about 3 decades behind
I do have to ask, do twinks have a particular way of writing that you can identify not only their sexual orientation, but also their role within that orientation?
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Did you know that in 1990, the soviets traded a bunch of (outdated) warships and submarines in exchange for shipments of Pepsi?![:marseypepsi: :marseypepsi:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseypepsi.webp)
An American slop company briefly controlled the world's sixth largest navy (before selling the ships for scrap).
!burgers !anticommunists
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Imagine thinking you "control a navy" by having old empty ships but no crew, no leadership, no operations plans, no infrastructure, etc.
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You will never be a real navy…..
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They're all bark and no bite! Pepsi even was sued once for not having having a fighter jet.
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Yes, literally everyone knows this
It's the subject of several million view youtube videos and a common reddit comment
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I just saw this shit yesterday
I'm gonna have to make my own post about that shit for my own post karma
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Join the /h/kappa tourney![:marseydoit: :marseydoit:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseydoit.webp)
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Every time I read stories like this, I get a bit closer to understand why the commies constantly seethe about us, and everything we stand for.
If I based my worldview on such a display of failures after failures, I would be pissed too.![:marseyrope: :marseyrope:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyrope.webp)
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Good job south korea
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!commies never recovered from this.
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Commies still coping hard![:#marseyseethe: :#marseyseethe:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyseethe.webp)
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Do they seethe at bakeries for using the same ingredients?
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Also the "WHAAA DA CORPORASHIUNS" coming from Sovietboos simping for mega state owned enterprises which were way more shady. They don't hate big corpos, they just hate the fact they're privately owned in the market economies.
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Their Entire ideology and worldview was evaporated by stepping into in an American corner store, something at the time most Americans lived 5 minutes from was unbelievable for the most powerful soviet leaders. IIRC they thought the CIA had stocked the stores before they got there and made a few stops at a few different stores.
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They still only eat sour cream and pickles to this day
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hahahah holy shit they are so upset over this
I know this is
but it's always fun to read about the absolute shock of soviets visiting a US supermarket and realizing that it's not even some kind of special location or anything, it's just a normal supermarket, one of thousands upon thousands, open to regular people every day. Such a store would be a national treasure in the USSR but it's just some random suburb in the US lol.
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Remember not to take something as pedestrian as the grocery store for granted.![:marseyu#sa: :marseyu#sa:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyusa.webp)
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When I first came to America, I had a similar experience going to Target. I think it happens to everyone.
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I'm glad you were taken aback by our country.
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When you were a kid did your parents get you a free cookie and a piece of cheese from the bakery and deli at shop n save and giant eagle as a treat whenever you went grocery shopping?
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100% - I grew up in Harrisburg area so it was GIANT not Giant Eagle. Completely different companies funny enough. She would let us get the free treats but we had to ask for them, she was pretty big on forcing the autism out of me![:marseyautism: :marseyautism:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyautism.webp)
My mom was a total
cause we were poor (couponer even) so it's always fun to learn childhood memories that were my mom bending the rules
A highlight was going to Hershey World - not to be confused with Hershey Park, Hershey World was completely free minus parking. ![](https://i.rdrama.net/i/hand.webp)
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Oh thank frick lol I was at the grocery store today and I remembered that used to happen and I realized maybe that was just an us thing and wasn't normal at all and maybe it was annoying the wagies every time but they weren't gonna say no to some little kid?? This is actually a huge relief lol
This 1000%. Incidentally a few years after I moved out we stopped being dirt poor and are now upper middle class. Not that it benefits me in any way
The inheritance will be nice though.
Just googled Hershey World (we went to Park once and it was AMAZING at least when I was very small) and I distinctly remember the chocolate factory ride...
...which is in the ads for World and now I'm questioning everything. Does World have rollercoasters and mascots in Hershey costumes and shit?
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They're right next to each other and share parking, you very likely went to both.
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Almost as
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I've never actually watched this video.
He keeps doing this weird fricking laugh. I wish he would stop.
At the end he's bragging about buying a "week" of groceries for $104? Doesn't sound much less than here in the US tbh for people who cook food at home, plus obviously our wages are way higher than the average in Russia.
I do wish he would have gone somewhere outside Moscow tho. I'm gonna guess most Russians don't shop at some super upscale mall in Moscow.
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Go to Sam's Club and you can eat like a king for way less than that
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Yeah, during soviet times they straight up had segregated shops for western visitors that had much more shit than the stores for locals.
Its not technically still enforced, but russian guides, and someone like tucker definitely had a handpicked security service guide, and the police heavily push the media and such to go to the big flagship stores. Out in the countryside its gonna be several orders of magnitude more depressing, probably worse than in soviet times when you get to siberia and such.
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Here I am routinely getting annoyed that my bumfrick nowhere grocery store out in the sticks doesn't have a particular kind of hot pepper grown in California
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Yeah. I know a couple guys that gre up behind the iron curtain. They explained that its not like they were malnourished, the basics were always in enough supply (i think the literal bread lines were during the collapse). But luxury goods were rare and there was far less choice. A couple sorts of cheese and sausage. Local vegetables and fruit. You couldnt casually go to the store and grab a pound of kiwis.
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Globalism has failed, millions must fly
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I've never read this account before lmao frick yeah![:marseysaluteusa: :marseysaluteusa:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseysaluteusa.webp)
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I've been loosely connected to people bringing Cubans to the US and this is similar to what happens to some of them. I remember one guy came here during 2008 and he had heard about the big financial crisis and he was pissed that this was what we called a crisis lol.
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Do you not know the story behind this roofer? It's great
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I do. I just eant to laugh as they cope
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The story is actually pretty sad. He was born homeless and lived in a garbage can. He is forced to stay in holes as reparations for the crime of being born a Jew. He is truly blessed to have as many as he does
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Such was life under communism.![:marseydepressed: :marseydepressed:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseydepressed.webp)
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This was life for the Jews under communism
:#jewishshapiro:
Under communism![:#marseycatgirlhomofascist: :#marseycatgirlhomofascist:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseycatgirlhomofascist.webp)
And this was life for everybody under communism
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Wow, seems like you have a lot of wisdom from your experiences growing up under the boot of Stalin
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I was forced to live with an 11 year old. I was 34.
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Bussy, we've gone over this. Roleplaying as a child molester isn't funny. You need to stop.![:taystop: :taystop:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/taystop.webp)
!slots666 and if I lose you are going to heck
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Looks like the odds have spoken for me
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He's so blessed to have all these upmarseys. I hope it helps put a roof on his head.
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this kills the communist![:marseycomrade: :marseycomrade:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseycomrade.webp)
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Darn bro, it's 2021. Your cracks are about 3 decades behind
I do have to ask, do twinks have a particular way of writing that you can identify not only their sexual orientation, but also their role within that orientation?
Cause that's fricking incredible. It's like dictational Gaydar™©®
I mean it's busted, cause you were way off base, but it's still pretty darn cool
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Mentioning a food is processed is a pretty clear indication of a low iq.
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