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On 2024-05-01 10:24 p.m., rbowman wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2024 12:59:11 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
> 
>> <https://rumble.com/v4e8ovl-tucker-carlson-shorts-the-moscow-grocery-
> store.html>
>>
>> While the civilized, "good" Western world largely has to decide whether
>> to pay their rent or eat every month, food is still very much affordable
>> in "evil" Russia.
> 
> It probably has changed but my wife visited the USSR in the '70s. When I
> picked her up at the airport her first words were 'Take me to McDonalds.'
> She didn't lose any weight on the trip but I think she'd seen one too many
> piroshki.
> 
> She did mention the pivo trucks came around for curbside service like US
> food trucks. That sounded like an excellent idea to me.

I have to admit that despite finding no benefit whatsoever to Communism 
and hating the ideology and its adherents with a passion, I would have 
been curious to visit Moscow during the height of the Soviet Union. I 
get the feeling that, at the very least, the place wouldn't have the 
rampant crime of Western metropolises.

-- 
Andrzej (Andre) Matuch
TG: @AndrzejMatuch
Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king.