re: #394 HappyWarrior

Yeah, it’s been a while since I’ve read about the East during the Cold War but I remember reading in How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed about how the crippling lack of consumer goods was a big reason why people grew dissatifised with Communism.

The Eastern Bloc managed to create a terrible situation—an industrialized urban population that couldn’t buy stuff. Kind of surreal.