• kescusay@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ll need to try to track this down. Years ago, I saw a documentary following someone who had just defected from the Soviet Union, and got to watch him go into a grocery store for the first time. The astonishment and disbelief was palpable.

    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      I was on a tour in Russia back in the early '80s. The tour guide took us to a big shopping mall and was just going on and on about how wonderful it was. The shelves were mostly bare, the selections were super limited. A guy in our group leaned over and whispered,“She’d have a bloody heart attack if she walked into Harrods!”