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    Von No-Marsupial-4050

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    2. Far-Novel-9313 on

      Only one 0.5 l vodka bottle per month? How did people survive back in the day?

    5. EspritLibre_404 on

      Nothing says prosperity like rationed sugar and emotional resilience.

    7. CainJaeger on

      Nice propaganda picture but the reality was different.Everything was limited via pieces of paper that were your food allowance but they were pretty worthless since shops were mostly empty with stock neing gone basically the same day it arrived.No communism wasnt a good thing

    10. pashtetova on

      thats bullshit
      ration stamps did not mean food rationing, just ammount one can buy at official prices
      people could get any basic goods at higher „open market“ prices or for hard currency

    11. kamiloslav on

      That’s how much you were allowed to buy. No way you’d be able to get all that in any shop back then

    12. No_Order_8011 on

      Oh wow, people that didn’t smoke and did not drink alcohol must have felt like kings with all the extra exchange currency.

    13. Friendly_Gazelle7843 on

      It’s not food ration. It’s restricted food they limited per person but you still have to pay for it

    16. edijo on

      These weren’t any kind of “food rations“. Just purchase limits in official stores. People had plenty of other ways to get food — they’d “sort things out” for themselves, like arranging a “private” pig slaughter, or getting a hen, goose, duck, or chicken. More generally, they bought food “from the countryside” or “at the market.” Alcohol and cigarettes were made privately too. Bread and dairy weren’t rationed, and they were ridiculously cheap. I remember „military“ salted butter sold from barrels, without any limits…

    18. angelindarkness on

      And that’s if you didn’t use your rations to get other items – I remember a story of someone who traded their food rations for material to sew a new dress. They just didn’t eat that month.

    20. fluffybuttsncats on

      Although I was very young, I remember standing in a long ass line with my mom waiting our turn to buy our allotment of wędliny.

      Often they would run out, and we’d go home empty handed after what seemed like (to me at least) hours of waiting. But when we did get it, it was SO exciting and delicious, and I do recall it always being fresh. So communism was at least good for making you appreciate things more, I guess.

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