In the udssr food was ether subsidized (so very cheap, fresh bread was cheaper then pig food) or its was basically a novelty food , yes yes there was stuff in between like cucumbers which where subsidized in summer and expensive in the winter, thats why people in easter europe pickle there cucumbers, its was basically free food, get some pickles, get some bread and you have basically 50% of a meal for "free"
so why big gazongas?
Milk
do the math, milk wasent subsidized, people needed to find a way, to evolve....
Food was dirt cheap if you could find it. Most blocks also had some subsistence gardens in my country because there was sufficient space between thrm to fence them off, cucumbers would be harvestable a few times throughout the summer, so were tomatoes. In the autumn you'd swap to carrots and cabbage. The last allotment i remember was 1/4th of a loaf per person per day so my family got over 0.5kg of bread, 3/4ths of a loaf. But sometimes they simply wouldn't have bread and you couldn't get yesterday's lost allotment, today. Given this, everyone was guarding their block gardens like their life depended on it.
Yah OP seems 14 years old. Just heard whatever wanted to hear about USSR. If USSR was a leader of anything in food it was food lines. Waiting for four hours a day in them because of how scarce they often were. Things like milk and vegetables.
This is a Reuter’s article, not a CIA paper (just released by them). It’s not a proper analysis; it’s a single journalist giving their interpretation of the data.
I believe the data. But the analysis is a single, overly simple line — “Generally held nutritional standards suggest individuals need fewer calories,
less meat, less sugar and more grain to stay fit.”
Quantity matters, as does lifestyle, not just proportion. This standard is somewhat applicable to the average American’s diet and lifestyle, but even then it’s oversimplified and potentially dangerous. Overeating is still healthier than undereating/starvation, even though neither is good.
- The average Soviet wasn’t getting as much food TOTAL. That factoidal standard is only applicable when you are overeating.
The average Soviet had a more active job (office work wasn’t as common); this means that they need more calories and protein.
Your brain is almost entirely fat and water, and it runs on sugar.
Firstly, who is this true for? Party members in moscow? It may be true on average if it contains the caviar class but the life of the average citizen it was common to skip a couple of meals a week on top of rationing. Secondly, even in this file do you not see how this is a worse diet?
unlike the glorious us of a. where no one has ever skipped a meal. or in the current successors of the ussr( eastern europe, central asia) who have converted to capitalism and have never not full bellies since
I don't care about usian brained freaks such as yourself.
Yes. As in the successors where at least meals are affordable and there are public services in place for those who don't.
But the absolute peak stupid of your comment is implying that because less than 1% of the population is dirt poor that somehow compares to most of a population being dirt poor.
No one says the US is or was a utopia but it says a lot about you utopian ideology if it can't feed people better than capitalism. In fact it did worse than capitalism before basically any consumer protections or government programs were started. During the great depression, which of course wasn't a great time to be alive and is the time most people point to, to show how bad capitalism is, life expectancy in the US actually increased.
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u/Unlucky_Air6125 1d ago
Sure? Communism has pretty perky gazongas.