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      They are in the same place where pro-capitalist liberals are when people talk about food insecurity in today’s West, and let’s face it, the rest of the non-Western world.

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      This has little to do with socialism/capitalism and more with that fact that the economy was centrally (terribly) governed and most of the products were exported to the “friend nation USSR”

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        75% of sugar output exported to the Sovs while the citizens of Poland ‘enjoyed’ sugar rationing.

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          75% of sugar output exported to moscow and leningrad, you think the people of anywhere outside the immediate vicinity of those two cities got to see any of it? Let alone anywhere east of the Urals?

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        Comunimsm is not that bad! It only has a 100% failure rate, but that’s the CIA/UFO/Soros fault!

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          Reminder you live in a country where you have to pay other people to deny you healthcare.