Have you ever actually used an IC made by the Russians?
You rattle off things that aren’t true today for the very reasons they haven’t been true for years. The communists have always had grocery store issues. Do not kid yourself the stores in Eussia look nothing like a modern grocery store
I know. All that stuff that Russia launches is just falling out of the sky going hither and yon. Sadly it is falling on Ukrainians who are dying by the hundreds as the incompetent Russians can't find their way home and are retreating to the East lurching drukenly threatening the safety of everyone around them. Their maps are bad and their compasses don't even work.
What is your evidence of that? A couple of weeks ago I watched a couple of youtube videos of somebody going through a grocery store in Russia to show what prices were nowadays. To me, it looked like any grocery store I've been in lately. Well stocked, plenty of variety.
The old joke was they - the USSR - used to make the world's largest microcircuits. They never exported any Zils either. Weapons only.
Between Germany and Russia, Russian supermarkets are better. And guess what? There is no shortage of tampons and baby formula.
Correct. I was in Russia in 1998, and the grocery stores all resembled small American family-run shops of the 1940's, and most valuable products were behind glass. When I was relating to a Russian who came over here, she was utterly blown away at our typical grocery store.
She was most blown away by the variety of brands. In Russia, especially in the Soviet Era, you bought RICE. One brand. No markings other than identifying the product. You bought BUTTER. You bought BREAD. There were no competing brands.
They aren’t Communists anymore. Have you been in a modern Russian supermarket? Magnet and Tabris hold their own to any in the USA. Metro is great for Costco-style wholesale. As an American who lived there for several years I wanted for very little on the grocery front.