Ah comrades.....I miss those lines for food and toilet paper. And I miss the sandpaper feel of that toilet paper.
comrade..... I look across the border at China.
They have taken up capitalist ways and are prospering. Why are we Russians still floundering?
Are Chinese racially superior to Slavs?
I have a single sheet of TP I swiped from a train in West Germany when I visited in 1986. It is grey, very rough, and you can actually see little wood splinters in it. To be fair, this was public transport TP, the stuff they had in their homes was Charmin quality.
Ah the good old days of using PRAVDA toilet paper! Almost as slick as US military issued toilet paper.
Our little cadre of leftist here in America are working overtime to bring all that wonderful stuff to us! AKA the DNC and the establishment from academia to the media, all comrades in arms!
“...I miss those lines for food and toilet paper...”
Lines for food yes but not for toilet paper. There was no toilet paper in the 1960s - 1980s.
Soviets used junk paper, old party congress reports etc. Even important Communist Party officials did not have toilet paper. It may have been available at GUM in Moscow and Moscow’s hotels but it did not exist for engineers, surgeons, scientists, and people who would be upper middle class in this country.