people had to rely on barter, black market and food cards.
And this is how you blab out that you didn’t live in USSR as an adult. Food cards were not alternative to money, they were additional requirement to paying price in order to buy deficit food.
Also I noticed that you did not mention homegrown food for some reason… In what part of USSR barter and black market was more popular than homegrown food?
The more I see something like this, the less I understand how it is USSR that fell apart first.
How strong was your start?
Cheap food and entertainment, baby. Or as the Romans say “Bread and Games, baby.”
It’s quite simple - communism doesn’t work.
USSR didn’t have communism
But it did.
When all money was abolished?
The Soviet ruble was pretty much useless in the late 1980-s as people had to rely on barter, black market and food cards.
And this is how you blab out that you didn’t live in USSR as an adult. Food cards were not alternative to money, they were additional requirement to paying price in order to buy deficit food.
Also I noticed that you did not mention homegrown food for some reason… In what part of USSR barter and black market was more popular than homegrown food?
So money
Barter.
I suspect we have here another victim of the American education system.
No, I’m a victim of growing up in USSR.
Where were you living during the dissolution?
Still in the USSR. And I remember tanks on the streets.
How old were you at the time?
It’s quite simple. Education doesn’t work.