[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.

[Reaganite Republican]

‘Medved’ Chevrolet?

Must have struck him that that was Russian-American owned, too... made him think of what is possible here

The Soviets sure gave those people the mushroom treatment, even VIPs and Politburo members had no idea what it was like over here in the States

[GeronL]

He wanted to know how the government got all this food into a little mountain town

And you told him that the government didn't do it!