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"When I was a child, the Sunday magazine section of the paper had a story about people in the Soviet Union standing on line for hours at a butcher shop to get inferior cuts of meat."

I was born in 1947, and remember hearing about the bread lines in the U.S.S.R. I remember seeing Khruschev on TV when he came to the U.S., and how he said communism would bury this country. He got ticked because they wouldn't let him go to Disneyland.

A lot of people don't know that Great Britain, after WWII ended, continued the rationing of food until 1954. And despite the fact that the U.K. depended so much on overseas food imports during WWI, they did nothing to alleviate that before WWII rolled around. They were still reliant on imports.

During WWII, Stalin ordered the end of production of farm machinery/equipment, and required factories to produce nothing but equipment for the war. Farmers were at a loss to successfully grow the grain and vegetables needed to feed the nation. That's why so many Russians starved to death.

Disneyland? Wow. I remember his banging his shoe on the table yelling, "We will bury you!" and remember thinking that I'd really get my clock cleaned if I did that.

Didn't know that about England.

Thought Russia's problem stemmed from persecuting the Kulaks. Looked it up to refresh memory and found this:

http://www.indepthinfo.com/russia/kulaks.htm