[Reaganite Republican]

***PING***

[Fido969]

I wonder if that guy was turned by our spooks.

[DuncanWaring]

[Vigilanteman]

Historians say the experience at Randall's shattered his belief in communism once-and-for-all...

If we could only arrange to have leading libtards spend six months in North Korea . . . It is the purest form of communism on the planet.

[Alex Murphy]

A mesmerized Yeltsin wandered the isles, marveled at price-scanning registers he had no idea even existed -while taking his free in-store samples of cheese, etc and remarking how if ordinary Russians knew about America's horn-of-plenty 'there would be a revolution'. He added that the Soviet Politburo -with their special import shops/privileges- and not even Gorbachev have access to such variety as the average American did. Later a biographer wrote that subsequent to the grocery store visit, Yeltsin was actually shocked -and depressed- for a while about what he saw at Randall's that day- he just couldn't get the experience off his mind, especially when contrasted with the meagre offerings his 'potentially rich' USSR -with it's contempt for the retail sector- could manage....

....As Reagan once said, if he could just have the opportunity meet with the average Ivan (and his family) and show them how Americans truly lived, and our actual standard of living -not what the USSR told them- he felt his point would be made, and perhaps the Cold War resolved.

And now we have a president who doesn't want America to be exceptional.

[cuban leaf]

"Where eez Coffee line?"

[Jack Hydrazine]

“...and remarking how if ordinary Russians knew about America’s horn-of-plenty ‘there would be a revolution’.”

And if the Leftists in this country get their way we will become the Soviet Union with plenty of shortages/rationing of healthcare, food, electricity, and everything else!

[Snickering Hound]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3T_9aMMbws

A good movie that shows the difference between communist East Germany and the changes after the fall of the Berlin Wall, “Goodbye, Lenin”.

[SpeakerToAnimals]

In 1990 I was ski instructor for a Russian VIP. He freaked out at Safeway in Dillon, Colorado. He wanted to know how the government got all this food into a little mountain town.

We saw Medved Chevrolet on I-70. He freaked again when told that this was one of dozens of new car dealerships.

He was from Crimea. He moved to Connecticut last year.

[McGruff]

Got any interns I can take home?

[Star Traveler]

Interesting that he didn’t even know the reality of the situation.

[Buckeye McFrog]

his 'potentially rich' USSR -with it's contempt for the retail sector-

hmmm....typically one has to have worked in the retail sector in order to have contempt for it.

[M Kehoe]

Old Soviet joke: We pretend to work, and the government pretends to pay us.

5.56mm

[GeronL]

bump

[dfwgator]

From “One, Two, Three”.......

Peripetchikoff: No formula, NO DEAL!
C.R. MacNamara: OK, NO DEAL!
Borodenko: We do not need you! If we want Coca-cola, we invent it ourselves!
C.R. MacNamara: Oh, yeah? In 1956 you flew a bottle of Coke to a secret laboratory in Sverdlosk. A dozen of your top chemists went nuts trying to analyze the ingredients. Right?
Mishkin: No comment!
C.R. MacNamara: And in 1958, you planted two undercover agents in Atlanta to steal the formula. And what happened? They both defected! And now they’re successful businessmen in Florida packaging instant borscht. Right?
Peripetchikoff: No comment!
C.R. MacNamara: Last year you put out a cockamamie imitation “Kremlin-kola!” You tried it out in the satellite countries, but even the Albanians wouldn’t drink it. They used it for SHEEP DIP! RIGHT?
Mishkin: No comment!
C.R. MacNamara: So either get down to business or get off the pot!

[ADSUM]

We hosted a group of business and political people from Russia In Wisconsin several years ago and we took them to Old World Wisconsin, an historic area recreated on how Wisconsin citizens lived in the late 19 century.

They indicated that many still lived in similar circumstances in Russia.

[musicman]

The first time I went to a “Randall’s”, I was pretty darn impressed myself....Nice stores!!

[all the best]

I too am infinitely more impressed with supermarkets than with NASA.

[forgotten man]

I remember an interview with kid from the Soviet Union, Walter Polovchek, who did not want to go back to the Soviet Union with his parents. What opened his eyes was when he went to an American supermarket and saw an entire aisle filled with a wide variety of dog food.

[McGruff]

In office less than nine years and plagued by severe health problems, Mr. Yeltsin added a final chapter to his historical record when, in a stunning coup at the close of the 20th century, he announced his resignation, and became the first Russian leader to relinquish power on his own in accordance with constitutional processes. He then turned over the reins of office to his handpicked successor, Vladimir V. Putin.

Thanks alot Yeltsin.