You vastly overestimate scarcity in the former Soviet economy. Soviets routinely carried mesh shopping bags. You never knew when you might stumble on something.
Staples were cheap and abundant. It was luxury goods and consumer durables that were the problem.
And access to those tended to be linked to your spot in the party hierarchy or the status of your professions, not your income.
Soviet joke. Petya goes to the Lada dealer, and orders up the bright, shiny red one he's been eyeing since he was a Young Pioneer.
So they do the paperwork, clerk consults the schedule. "We will be delivering your vehicle in 18 mos., on 15 March, at 10 am."
"Damn it," says Petya. "Won't work. The plumber is due at 9."
Okey-doke, got it. I tend to think of them as hard left. But maybe they’re not. 🤷🏻♀️ Their hideous personalities make one rather incurious about their overall beliefs.
Know what's really funny? Putin himself cannot leave office. Why not, you ask? Because he would be dead before he can order new furniture from Ikea for his post PM swinging life. The only reason he is alive now is because "he no longer has the protections from the American criminal justice system afforded him by the presidency. HA HA!" Substitute Russian for American and ta-da there you are.
Now his puppet faces the same fate. I hope they roast in Hell together.
It's a David Cameron biopic?
They could both earn the Order of Lysenko for 'outstanding commitment to pissing in the wellspring of truth'.
Donnie's a double-naught secret agent!
Sorry, part of the discontinued "Stalin Collection" line. Like the Donald, nobody with any sense at all believes in Lysenko.
Baby Seth! And you can tell Trump is super pissed with his jokes
If you can't defend yourself, you ain't gonna make gains in science.
To what degree to ours rest upon genocide and slavery?
Thank you for your studied ignorance. Typical Murican, liberal or conservative, when it comes to hatin' on the Russkies.
You vastly overestimate scarcity in the former Soviet economy. Soviets routinely carried mesh shopping bags. You never knew when you might stumble on something.
Staples were cheap and abundant. It was luxury goods and consumer durables that were the problem.
And access to those tended to be linked to your spot in the party hierarchy or the status of your professions, not your income.
Soviet joke. Petya goes to the Lada dealer, and orders up the bright, shiny red one he's been eyeing since he was a Young Pioneer.
So they do the paperwork, clerk consults the schedule. "We will be delivering your vehicle in 18 mos., on 15 March, at 10 am."
"Damn it," says Petya. "Won't work. The plumber is due at 9."
Oh throw a pile of drunken corpses at it and maybe I'll start to care.
Jeepers!
Okey-doke, got it. I tend to think of them as hard left. But maybe they’re not. 🤷🏻♀️ Their hideous personalities make one rather incurious about their overall beliefs.
Know what's really funny? Putin himself cannot leave office. Why not, you ask? Because he would be dead before he can order new furniture from Ikea for his post PM swinging life. The only reason he is alive now is because "he no longer has the protections from the American criminal justice system afforded him by the presidency. HA HA!" Substitute Russian for American and ta-da there you are.
Now his puppet faces the same fate. I hope they roast in Hell together.
Oh, they'd believe it. They just wouldn't care.
That's a part, but there are points that their actions only make sense when blackmail is involved.
i have literally thought that to be a mannequin stand-in in every photo.
oh and fucking Vlad himself
yeah....see Tucker, Carlson