Counterpoint: these masters of planning couldn't even supply people with a decent pair of shoes. One's ability to credit Russian apparatchiks with mystical powers appears to be in inverse proportion to contact with the society they built for themselves.https://twitter.com/tristanharris/status/1020377091597000704 …
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Replying to @Pinboard @Dr_Memory
I’m so tired of glib references to the USSR as a shoeless backwater with futile bread lines. I get your point, and don’t entirely disagree. Just stop. -1990 immigrant
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Replying to @veek @Dr_Memory
I believe it's important to mention this aspect of the USSR for as long as people continue to forget the point it demonstrated at such a high human cost. I'm sorry you find the references glib!
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Replying to @Pinboard @Dr_Memory
Let me rephrase this: whatever problems we had in the post-WWII USSR, and there were many, they weren’t about shoes. The spectacular failure of that sociopolitical experiment still got a lot right on the material front.
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They were about a zillion things, including shoes. It wasn't a huge secret either, going to troubles to get decent shoes was even featured in Soviet movies. Not sure what parallel reality USSR you are from.
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The ice cream, to be fair, was amazing.
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And snow was up my waist!
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Maybe we got a superior export-grade Soviet ice cream in Poland. All I remember was that it melted almost instantly and was genuinely good (calibrated against my first ice cream cone in North America at age 6)
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