/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.17412678]

Can we have a comfy food oriented Russian 70s and 80s thread?

I know it's kinda specific but together we can have a nice collection of these pics. I'll start us off

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[Anonymous No.17412699]

This is like a Russian version of the Americana threads we have here sometimes. In those threads it's usually a bunch of snowflakes SCREAMING that these pictures aren't real, and never really happened. Those are lies of course, and in this Russian thread we can be comfy without American humanities students.

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[Anonymous No.17413027]

>>17412715
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>>17412706
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>>17412679
>>17412678
NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN HAPPY, OK?
NO ONE HAS EVER FELT PEACE, OK?
NO ONE HAS EVER FELT COMMUNITY, OK?

UM, THE 1950s housewives were all on pills and the son was a repressed gay and the daughter was secretly pregnant and the husband was... BEATING HER OK? REDDIT says the 1950s were FAKE so they WERE, OK?

[Anonymous No.17413043]

>>17413027
Go back to pol you fag.

[Anonymous No.17413061]

>>17413027
tienes esquizofrenia, nunca tienes un etnoestado, nunca tienes sexo ajajaja

[Anonymous No.17413069]

>>17413027
KYS GPT bot

[Anonymous No.17413079]

>>17413027
one day (You) will hopefully grow up to realise that this sort of attention you are getting is not the kind of attention you actually want

[Anonymous No.17413153]

>>17412685
Russian here. Johnnie Walker Red Label? in Soviet Union? this is a blatant lie. you wouldn't ever buy this except in specialized stores for foreigners or people with really, really good connections. either the pic is not USSR, or the propaganda got really, really fake with this one.

[Anonymous No.17413262]

>>17412678
You might as well have said 'comfy food oriented Soviet Union thread'.

[Anonymous No.17413310]

>>17413027
they hated him because he showed them a mirror

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[Anonymous No.17413641]

>>17413153
are you actually so retarded that you can't tell that's not a candid photo?

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[Anonymous No.17413671]

>>17413641
I think his point is that an official USSR pic wouldn't have put a Johnny Walker bottle on display

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[Anonymous No.17413760]

>>17412678
move over baskin robbins

[Anonymous No.17413771]

>>17413760
they are still being made and are widely available

[Anonymous No.17413778]

white people foods make me sad. :(

[Anonymous No.17413779]

>>17413153
>>17413671
It's from a series of advertisements for a luxury Soviet cruise liner which made international trips. Average fare was around 800 rubles for a trip at a time when the typical monthly salary was 150 rubles.
https://travelask.ru/blog/posts/26845-15-reklamnyh-bukletov-pokazyvayuschih-kakimi-byli-morskie-kr

[Anonymous No.17413824]

>>17413671
why not?
https://youtu.be/1t3h9osiFuE?t=36

[Anonymous No.17413844]

stop appropriating nostalgia, only real ones know what's up

[Anonymous No.17414470]

>>17412678
before Starbucks there was...

[Anonymous No.17414480]

>>17414470
how bad was it?

[Anonymous No.17414502]

>>17414480
like Sanka but several times as bad

[Anonymous No.17414508]

>>17414480
I think you can still get barley coffee nowadays.

[Anonymous No.17414515]

>>17414502
>>17414508

I've never tried anything Russian in my life but I assume it was really bad.

[Anonymous No.17414565]

funny part is most food was actually better/higher-quality in the ussr than now. Also way less plastic packaging for unnecessary shit. yuppies would have loved it

[Anonymous No.17414578]

>>17412679
I made kvass once, it was ok

[Anonymous No.17414582]

>>17413061
U rock pablo

[Anonymous No.17414586]

How exactly did food work in Soviet? I know about the bread lines obviously but how did the system work if it was working well? What was the ideal?

[Anonymous No.17414613]

>>17414565
>VGH, THE DOCTORSAUSAGE OF MY ANCESTORS... TRULY BETTER TIMES...

[Anonymous No.17414614]

>>17414586
go to store
buy food
burger misconceptions about the ussr always shock me

[Anonymous No.17414619]

>>17414613
unironically yes

[Anonymous No.17414631]

>>17414613
Doktorskaya was really good until Brezhnev made it cheaper, then it became just like western Bologna mystery meat. It used to be like Mortadella

[Anonymous No.17414643]

>>17414614
>burger misconceptions about the ussr always shock me
Most of that comes from the images of rationing and consumer goods shortages that happened outside of wartime during perestroika. Not specifically just urban Russia, but other SSRs, too.

[Anonymous No.17414654]

>>17414578
It's really good if you use lemons and real black bread with some maltose content and really toast it dark, like basically burn it.

[Anonymous No.17414697]

>>17413153
>specialized stores for foreigners

Wasn't the hole point of the iron curtain to keep inside information in and outside information out?
Wouldn't such a store violate that principle by catering to foreigners specifically with goods nobody else in the Soviet Union could buy in this obvious manner?

[Anonymous No.17414708]

>>17414614
I am not a burger, you obsessive

[Anonymous No.17414714]

>>17414697
Master and Margarita mentions a luxury store with foreign products, it was based they burned it down.

[Anonymous No.17414737]

>>17414565
>funny part is most food was actually better/higher-quality in the ussr than now.
It's a blatant nostalgia, anon.
Here's a picture of Yeltsin visiting US.
>Also way less plastic packaging for unnecessary shit.
Enjoy digging through rotten or moldy vegetables after spending an hour in a queue just to get into a store.

[Anonymous No.17414771]

>>17414737
what the fuck does yeltsin have to do with anything I said?
more != better
>>17414708
then just underage i guess

[Anonymous No.17414775]

>>17414697
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryozka_(Russian_retail_store)
>Beriozka (Russian: Бepёзкa, lit. "little birch tree") was the overall name applied to two chains of state-run retail stores in the Soviet Union that sold goods in exchange for foreign currency. Beriozkas sold luxury goods such as chocolate and caviar that were often unavailable or unaffordable in traditional Soviet markets and shops.
of course if you were just an average Russian, you'd probably never own any dollars.

[Anonymous No.17414814]

>>17414771
I am not underage, I have probably been on this site longer than you

[Anonymous No.17414822]

>>17414771
>what the fuck does yeltsin have to do with anything I said?
You're not the bright one.
Life-long nomenklatura elite is impressed by some fresh bell peppers.
This is all you need to kow about MUH USSR GOST QUALITY meme.

[Anonymous No.17414829]

>>17413641
I mean that of course this is a staged picture, and those typically painted Soviet life better than it actually was. but others in this thread may think that it's actually realistic, and it's just way too ridiculous even for Soviet standards—I'd expect Armenian cognac or Soviet champagne on the table, but Johnnie Walker is some next level lie. but >>17413779 explained it. still no idea if those cruises actually had Johnnie Walker though, way too good to be true

[Anonymous No.17414832]

>>17414822
>>17414771
Forgot the photo.

[Anonymous No.17414834]

>>17414771
>then just underage i guess
I'm thinking he was just pointing out that most people felt eastern Europe was poverty stricken during the 80s/90s, not just Americans.

[Anonymous No.17414844]

>>17414832
he's just looking at them

[Anonymous No.17414848]

>>17412678
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>>17412683
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>>17412701
Why are russians so ugly? At best there are like 2 normal looking people here, no one looks pretty.

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>>17414848
FAS

[Anonymous No.17414863]

>>17414822
wow, you get your knowledge of world history by projecting your thoughts onto some old photo ops? you must be some sort of genius, fuck listening to everyone who actually lived in russia, right?
And when did I even mention anything about the US anyways?

[Anonymous No.17414864]

>>17414771
>more != better
a nation having more food than less food is objectively better

[Anonymous No.17414889]

>>17414829
>still no idea if those cruises actually had Johnnie Walker though, way too good to be true
The article did mention they had trips to Canada and the UK, particularly in the post-Stalin era. It's not a huge stretch.

[Anonymous No.17414901]

>>17414829
You know that foreign things weren't banned in the ussr, right? People could bring in shit from abroad, and did so often. Obviously few people actually traveled to the US/Europe, but its not like it was totally impossible to obtain foreign liq

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>>17414844
>he's just looking at them
He couldn't afford to buy them with roubles back home without his connections.

>>17414863
Жиpнoтa.

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>>17414916
pro tip: if you're going to try and insult someone in another language, don't use google translate

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>>17414901
buddy, are you Russian or not? because what you say is just dumb. "traveling abroad" was a big luxury already, and traveling outside of Eastern block was reserved only for the chosen. you'd be glad if you made it to GDR and bought something like foreign music records, let alone alcohol that would cost like your monthly allowance, especially when all you had was rubles. if you did all that, I can tell you you were extremely lucky to have the money and right connections, probably in the top 1% of Soviet citizens.
"foreign things weren't banned" is great and all, except they were barely imported in the first place and were nigh impossible to get even without any "bans". just talk to any actual Russian if they had a chance to buy Red Label in USSR, even in the 80s. they'd laugh it off because you wouldn't even dream about it.

[Anonymous No.17415118]

what's all this talk about "average russians", "right connections", "top 1%", "nomenklatura elite"? sounds mighty capitalistic to me and not very communistic

[Anonymous No.17415120]

>>17415086
never said it wasn't rare, just not impossible - and some of those goods brought in would be sold to 'commissions shops' or just to friends. Obviously a very small market, but not like that shit didn't exist.
Also you were allowed to exchange rubles for foreign currencies when going abroad.

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>>17415120
>Also you were allowed to exchange rubles for foreign currencies when going abroad.
just like venezuelans can exchange bags full of bills for a couple foreign coins?

[Anonymous No.17415174]

>>17414848
Well, I also don't see any landwhales on electric scooters buying 6 quarter pounders and a liter of cola

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>>17412678

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>>17414586
It's been a while since I read up on it, but iirc in the 70s/80s essentially there were guaranteed rationed foods which you always got (or were supposed to) from the state and then luxury foods which you paid for separately, things imported from other commie countries. This might have been the east german system i don't really remember. There were food vendors and cafeteria style restaurants, most food was very simple and practical because restaurants also had food limitations due to supply issues. There were often soviet or state produced equivalents to western foods like cola. It really wasn't that different than the west other than food shortages were a reality and the vast array of imported foods which the west had access to, especially by the 80s, did not exist on the other side of the wall. I remember some old east german women talking about how great it was having bananas and pineapples.

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>>17412678
You want a comfy, food oriented thread about the time period when Soviet agricultural production, and their economy in general, was collapsing?

[Anonymous No.17415521]

>>17415497
that's like saying you can't make a 1970s car thread because "gas production was collapsing"

[Anonymous No.17415536]

>>17415521
Except there were still a bunch of cars being produced in the 1970s while there was shortages of food in the USSR.

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>>17415536
there was a shortage of cream cheese last month in the us, guess this board should have shut down then?

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>>17415536
wow you're a dumbass

[Anonymous No.17415832]

>>17414619
>PlanesTrainsandAutomobiles.JPEG

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>>17413646
based

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>>17415408
That one still has the cup-washing mechanism because originally you drank from the same cup as the last guy.

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>>17415456
>it really wasn't that different
it sounds pretty damn different

[Anonymous No.17417739]

>>17414697
These stores were rare but not too unusual. For instance, in 80s/80s Romania there was quite a bit of tourism, and many hotels had stores like these. You could only enter as a tourist, and only pay in US dollars or German marks. It was a way to make some foreign currency.

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>>17417727
i mean, if its immediately washed with boiling water i wouldnt give a shit.

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>>17415118
unfortunately human greed and tendency to create social hierarchies/in-groups and out-groups seem to crop up in any community, large or small

[Anonymous No.17418148]

>>17417843
Was it boiling though ? Also, people may have fatty lips, I doubt it contained soap.

[Anonymous No.17418172]

>>17415118
from Soviet times, the "equality" of the people only went so far. Soviet system worked in a way that on paper, goods could be relatively cheap or even free, but the supply was extremely short for anything remotely good, creating the constant "deficit", a word that every Soviet citizen knew. so that's how you got huge lines for everything.
but many things weren't even sold in regular stores. for example up until certain time, it wasn't even possible to purchase a car in USSR. technically, they were given out for "free", but only to few lucky people, and to be the "chosen one" you had to have a high enough social position, or have the right connections, and the closer to the "system" you were, the better stuff you could get. the "right" people got vacations to best spots, flats & houses, cars, appointments to best doctors, could put their children to best schools, or could even have an upper hand in court. and the guys close to the party could get virtually all of it. so… not far from how classes work in the capitalist countries.
hence in Russia there's still a lot of cronyism, bribery, etc.

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>>17418148
yea, i very much doubt that. i only saw a few when i was like five at most, then they were gone.
the ideal solution would be an integrated high temp dishwasher like restaurants use, and a rack of glasses, all with some id token so you cant behave like a nigger.
it tickles my utilitarian autism, but i doubt its more practical than just paper cups. or just have motherfuckers carry their own glasses, my grandpa worked construction and had a folding cup that looked like it was made in 70s. something like the pic.

[Anonymous No.17418245]

>>17412683
Is that Bashar Al Assad on the (r) pushing the drink cart ????

[Anonymous No.17418270]

>>17414586
this guy's >>17415456 answer doesnt apply to Russia
many foreigners have a distorted picture of USSR because they fall prey to black and white fallacy: they think that it's either hunger or American abundance of food. there's a lot of points in between these two extremes.
in reality, it's not like USSR had outright hunger. but
1. imagine you earn around $5K / year, while everything costs the same as in US. this is a rough equivalent of an average USSR salary.
2. supermarkets are virtually nonexistent, save for few ones in biggest cities.
3. the most available stuff is low quality and cheap. forget steaks, you'll probably never see them in your life—usually you get the cheaper cuts of meat they eat in poor countries. chickens that are sold everywhere are blue and tiny. vegetable stores often reek of decaying vegetables. sour cream was usually diluted with milk, etc.
4. the selection of food is extremely small. there's generally 1-2 kinds of anything, no free market competition means you eat what you get. things like olive oil, ketchup, cereal or whiskey virtually didn't exist in USSR. most fruit is rare, the only vegetables sold year round were potatoes, carrots, onions, beets, apples, and cabbage. hence this is what forms 95% of Soviet dishes.
5. lines for everything. you have to wait in line for bread, line for meat, line for vegetables, line for beer, etc. Soviets often sent children to wait in endless lines.
6. high quality stuff is what they call "deficit". getting some bologna is a huge luck, getting salami is an occasion people remember for the rest of their lives.
7. the further from big cities you are, the worse it gets. some people literally took train rides to big cities just to stockpile on kolbasa.
8. imports barely exist. things get imported in tiny quantities, cost a fortune and still get sold out the moment they appear on shelves. and some are basically impossible to get, see the posts about Red Label in this thread.

[Anonymous No.17418337]

>>17414941
штaны пocтиpaй кpacнoжoпaя пaдaль

[Anonymous No.17418539]

This is a weird but based thread

[Anonymous No.17418683]

>>17414864
Unless you're starving, then more is definitely better.

[Anonymous No.17418698]

>>17414848
70's fashion is just goofy, I'm surprised how similar it is to the US's fashion at the time though.

[Anonymous No.17418700]

>>17414848
post face now.

[Anonymous No.17419376]

>>17418270
Thanks great post. Sounds fucking terrible, I've never been to o a supermarket that was sold out of pretty much everything didn't seem possible to me.... Until the Corona shit went down and became a reality. it's ridiculous how coddled we are in the west.

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>>17419376
where you at? never happened in germanistan, and i literally only ever ever shop at fri sat 1h before closing hours at the earliest.

[Anonymous No.17419699]

>>17415132
are you seriously suggesting that the currency of one of the two world superpowers was worthless? christ you people are something else

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>>17414941
лoл, кaкoй имeннo пepeвoдчик бyдeт пepeвoдить нa pyнeтный cлeнг?
хoтя чeгo мoжнo ждaть oт пиндoccкoгo кoммишвaйнa

[Anonymous No.17419881]

>>17419376
it's really sad because most Americans never knew how good they had it. I think many people in US think that having steaks is a norm for every country, eating out every day is a norm for every country, and so on. they never had to actually live in a place where steaks are a luxury, and where eating out is something you do only on special occasions, because otherwise you'd go bankrupt in a week. they're so used to seeing endless shelves of 100 different brands of cereal every day, they simply take it for granted, and when they don't get something here and now it's seen as awful service. it's sad but people get spoiled very easily.

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>>17418172
This just sounds like a worse form of capitalism.

[Anonymous No.17420214]

>>17412701
A dozen degrees below freezing, five feet of snow on the ground. You and your lady head here to get warm for a few hours, and enjoy yourselves for a few hours after work. It's comfy as fuck.

You have no idea your older brother, sent with his army unit to Afghanistan, is lying in a muddy puddle; both legs blown off and quickly dying.

[Anonymous No.17420298]

>>17418270
>1. imagine you earn around $5K / year, while everything costs the same as in US. this is a rough equivalent of an average USSR salary.
>while everything costs the same as in US.
stopped reading

[Anonymous No.17420594]

>>17420298
isn't he just saying what the cost of living is like in USSR with median earnings of $5K/year for a easy comparison?

[Anonymous No.17420640]

>>17419542
Sydney, Australia. My local Aldi was out of beef, chicken and most meat for about a week when I took this picture. Things are back to normal but it still fucks me up into a scarcity mindset which I hate. This isn't Africa wtf!?
>>17419881
I think eating meat everyday is a basic human need, I can really see this as being the beginning of the end for the west.

[Anonymous No.17420725]

Was there an equivalent to 'hippies' in the USSR? People who were all about "fuck war, fuck the government, legalize drugs, free love" etc. I think the more humble living conditions in the USSR compared to the more money rich western nations would prevent young adults from becoming spoiled, but you never know. Foreign culture was a luxury, after all.

[Anonymous No.17420747]

>>17420725
>Was there an equivalent to 'hippies' in the USSR?
Dead,executed,ginea pig,VORKUTA/Siberia inmate,defectors

[Anonymous No.17421063]

>>17415456
>remember some old east german women talking about how great it was having bananas and pineapples.
Me the same, but retired people are allowed to go to west Germany.

On the other hand there allergic illness was rare, even in Chemical production areas like Bitterfeld. They rised to western numbers after reunion.

[Anonymous No.17421084]

>>17420725
>People who were all about "fuck war, fuck the government, legalize drugs, free love"
Sure, Free Love was normal and woman in high working positions til to date. Being gay was legalized by the Bolschewiki in 1920something aso.

I worked there and the food was very good.UssR was a Multi cuti state. If you ever tastet some kaukasian cheese you know what that means.

[Anonymous No.17421379]

>>17420298
it was just an analogy. of course I don't mean you literally earned $5k, as ruble was never freely convertible as a currency.
however, we have modern Russia, and food prices here actually scale more or less evenly from the USSR times: generally, if something cost 1 ruble in USSR, it'd amount to roughly 200 rubles in modern Russia. just doing basic math extrapolation you'd get that Soviet average salary of 150 rubles would amount to something like $400-500 in purchasing power. but of course this doesn't account for a huge number of things like quality and availability of goods, as well as many other factors. it's just an imperfect analogy to at least give a general idea how people lived.

[Anonymous No.17421382]

>>17420640
fuck trueadeau. no, wait, wrong continent. still, you faggots got the same raw deal as leafss minus any resistance. as much as st tarrant brought your international image up, so did jakinda bring it the fuck down.

[Anonymous No.17421393]

>>17419699
Alright, what was the exchange rate to us dollars in say 1975?
I'm an average Ivan from Nizhny Novgorod, I'm going to the DDR for a visit, and by god I'm going to buy a bottle of Johnnie Walker. How many rubles will I need?

[Anonymous No.17421396]

>>17415086
Ignore the brainlet who's idolizing a system, or rather a time he doesn't understand because like most Americans he's spoilt so stupid he doesn't know what reality and fantasy is. My father's fondest memory is walking several miles to a post office to get a bushel or banannas that had been packed and sent to him for his birthday by his parents. People need to understand how direly poor everyone was, the lack of consumer goods is one of the biggest reasons for the black market that emerged near the collapse. Just simple things like clothes that didn't itch like madness. God why are Americans so set on worshipping this stupid broken system? Are they retarded?

[Anonymous No.17421402]

>>17418698
The US one a culture victory in 1950, we are all living in the after-effects of it.

[Anonymous No.17421414]

>>17420725
No, the USSR understood freedom is evil and ensured that never happened. During the early 1920s, certain leftists elements within the USSR were promoting degenerate sexual acts, they even legalized homosexuality. By 1930s, Stalin purged and killed every single degenerate within the party who engaged in that behavior, criminalized homosexuality with death and that is one reason why Stalin is seen far more fondly among Russians then Lenin and especially Trotsky

The problem is that you westerners think "hippies" are a normal phenomena. They are not, they are a emergence of tolerance and freedom that actively creates a sick society. They are not normal. There were no hippes in the USSR. Just like how in West Germany, there was a pedophile network of free love activists teaching in kindergartens in the 1970s, there was none of that foolishness in East Germany. It would have been impossible for it to occur.
The USSR had a perfect system of government to maintain perpetual party rule. The only reason the USSR fell was because the leaders decided to foolishly weaken a few of the institutions of control to give people "Freedom" which actively undermined the whole structure.

[Anonymous No.17421420]

>>17421414
"Hippies" were almost entirely a KGB plot to weaken America.

[Anonymous No.17421423]

>>17419376
>Until the Corona shit went down and became a reality
most grocery stores work on day-of deliveries because food goes bad if you have too much, and generally customers won't buy older food even if it isn't bad. Most of hte issues were with supply chains and places having to shutter production because no one knew how the fuck covid spread for the first few months(which is where all the anti-mask stuff popped up- because if they say one thing a year ago and change their mind now why listen at all?)

[Anonymous No.17421432]

>>17421414
>The only reason the USSR fell was because
It fell because they tried to compete with a country with access to way more varied resources, by ignoring competition

[Anonymous No.17421435]

>>17421414
I think I'd rather have a gay next door neighbor than starve to death or wait in line a week for a sack of potatoes.

[Anonymous No.17421444]

>>17421414
>Ignores the competition
>Spends ridiculous amount of rubles fixing the chernobyl incident
>Mass amounts of corruption that can't address
>Literally keep bringing old leaders out of retirement who everyone exploits
>Stupid planned system that didn't work out
>Weak willed, limp wristed near the end, allowed people too much freedom
>Allow allies to easy access to their resources with out proper payment
>it goes on
If they did what China had done ten years prior they might still be around today in some compacity but you have to remember every other state outside of Belarus and parts of Ukraine was essentially only in the USSR by gun point.

[Anonymous No.17421450]

>>17419894
because it really was. people think socialism is some magic system that is a complete opposite from capitalism, but really it is very much like it, except everything is owned by state. the said state has little interest in improving anything, because it has essentially a monopoly on everything, and you have no choice but buy their products anyway. and much like in every country, the politicians usually do terrible job running just about anything. as long as people don't rebel, they couldn't give a fuck about anything. so when the state owns everything, it's actually not that different from when a few corporations own everything; it's the same abuse of monopolies, except at least corporations don't have any military power to punish dissent.
USSR made all the economic errors described by economists way back in the 1940s, and they didn't even know what USSR was like. socialism is just a system that tried to prove that running economy based on supply and demand was wrong, and in the end got fucked by the laws of supply and demand.

[Anonymous No.17421498]

>>17412678
>russian breakfast
explains a lot

[Anonymous No.17421514]

>>17421379
>as well as many other factors
Most importantly it doesn't account for the fact that there was no rent payments, no medical or educational expenses, utility bills were 1/2 to 1/3 of what they are now, and inflation happened once every 10 years (compensation for deficit).

[Anonymous No.17421520]

>>17412711
why do slavs love whole raw onions

[Anonymous No.17421541]

Can someone explain what's in the can at >>17413547 ? Also that stick thing inside it, it doesnt look like a spoon. It doesnt look like caviar, not even the small black ones, I can't figure it out

[Anonymous No.17421552]

>>17421541
it's a cigarette w/ holder, represents Russia's trashy culture

[Anonymous No.17421657]

>>17412706
>that condensed milk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FciHu1e6xWs

[Anonymous No.17421694]

>>17414737
Yeltsin was a fat, drunk, corrupt bydlo, of course he would enjoy garbage tier packaged food. Just like your favorite orange buffoon, lmao

[Anonymous No.17421733]

>>17414697
here's one you can still visit if you don't mind the environment

[Anonymous No.17421738]

>>17421694
you've never had an orange pushpop have you?

[Anonymous No.17421749]

>>17412679
how does this work, you just stand around until you finish your mug?
how does the guy wash the mugs without running water?
or do you bring your own mug

[Anonymous No.17421753]

>>17421749
>how does this work, you just stand around until you finish your mug?
yes
>how does the guy wash the mugs without running water?
either he has a small tank of fresh water to rinse with, or he just doesn't.
>or do you bring your own mug
nah the mug is provided.
they do something like this to this day in India, little street carts selling mystery food. you pay, guy gives you a little stainless steel plate with food on it, you eat it there and give the plate back, he rinses it with bottled water and puts it back on the "clean" stack.

[Anonymous No.17421763]

>>17421753
>>17421749
found pic

[Anonymous No.17421767]

>>17421733
Seem popular with the Canadians.

[Anonymous No.17421774]

>>17421541
it's belomorkanal cigarettes. people would buy these and remove the tobacco then stuff it with pot

[Anonymous No.17421775]

>>17421753
>>17421763
thanks anon

[Anonymous No.17421776]

>>17421774
why not just buy rolling papers

[Anonymous No.17422051]

>>17412701
Is this Rashka ? Because there is a Benson&Hedges sign in the back. Could be Yugoslavia.

[Anonymous No.17422060]

>>17414470
>>17414502
Does anybody remember Soviet Tea Concentrate ? It had this really nasty synthetic rum flavor, probably to hide the Tannine. Came in a little bottle, you needed only a few drops for a cup of tea. No sweetener comrades, had to stand in line extra for that.

[Anonymous No.17422119]

>>17421520
The allicin in raw onion can have a sweet aftertaste, a good palate cleanser for the usually savory slavic cuisine

[Anonymous No.17422153]

>>17414714
Based master and margarita reader

[Anonymous No.17422227]

>>17421733
we actually had a бepёзкa in хapькoв, it was just a posh'ish shop. but that was during the 90s.

[Anonymous No.17422234]

>>17421776
zoomer pls. those werent a thing, people used newspapers to roll smokes.

[Anonymous No.17422239]

>>17422234
I'm 41 I just live in a free country

[Anonymous No.17422244]

>>17414714
>>17422153
dog bless you faggots. m&m, roadside picnic, and lotr are the books ive reread the most in my life.

[Anonymous No.17422245]

>>17422239
i hope the irony of calling western countries free does not elude you. im in germanistan now, and the shit ive seen over kungflu is fairly mind blowing. and we arent even as bad as leafs or aussies.
and im pretty sure newspapers were used for smokes worldwide.

[Anonymous No.17422249]

>>17422245
You're "pretty sure"?
Safe to assume it was east Germany there Einstein?

[Anonymous No.17422253]

>>17422249
nigger ive been in germanistan since 01. im pretty sure because i read about it in something like headless rider or king solomon's mines. fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.17422259]

>>17422253
Ja Ja fritz great idea to gleam all your retarded opinions from children's fiction

[Anonymous No.17422264]

>>17422259
ёбaнaя шaвкa coвceм пиздaнyлacь. ich würde dich bemitleiden, aber dafür hasse ich dein golemvolk viel zu sehr.

[Anonymous No.17422271]

>>17422264
That from Harry Potter, faggot?

[Anonymous No.17422274]

>>17422271
kek, the eternal mutt strikes again.

[Anonymous No.17422294]

>>17422274
Easy Klaus not everyone's moved on to lotr yet

[Anonymous No.17422298]

>>17422294
at least call me ivan you globshlomo derivative.

[Anonymous No.17422299]

>>17422245
>tfw you live in Florida and covid never happened
People wore masks for like a month in April 2020. Never had lockdowns, never had vax mandates, schools never closed. It's awesome, I feel bad for you guys. This whole time it's been just like before covid

[Anonymous No.17422300]

>>17422298
no hans, germany is a puppet state you don't dictate terms

[Anonymous No.17422303]

>>17415086
>just talk to any actual Russian if they had a chance to buy Red Label in USSR, even in the 80s.
Дoхyя poccиян и ceйчac нe мoгyт eгo кyпить тaктo

[Anonymous No.17422304]

>>17422299
>florida man prevails
checked. schools did close afaik, masks are mandated for indoor public spaces, no vaxx mandate yet. its not the worst yet, but idk if it will get worse still, shit is fifty fifty in eu for now.

>>17422300
fair point.

[Anonymous No.17422309]

>>17422304
I legitimately haven't seen anyone wear a mask anywhere in the last 2 years.

[Anonymous No.17422312]

>>17422309
the one time i crawled outside before 8pm ive actually seen people wear masks on the streets. i was perturbed to say the least.

[Anonymous No.17422361]

>>17422299
well, apart from the quarter of a million people who died in Florida but hey fuck it, they were boomers, right?

[Anonymous No.17422370]

>>17422361
Prove that even 10% of those actually died of covid complications and didn't just die from something unrelated and test positive. People have been hit by cars and been added to the covid death toll

[Anonymous No.17422376]

>>17422370
>People have been hit by cars and been added to the covid death toll
prove it

[Anonymous No.17422377]

>>17422376
https://wpde.com/amp/news/nation-world/man-who-died-in-motorcycle-crash-counted-as-covid-19-death-in-florida-report-07-18-2020

[Anonymous No.17422380]

>>17422376
oh my sweet summer childe.

[Anonymous No.17422381]

>>17422377
that sounds like fake news to me

[Anonymous No.17422386]

>>17422381
Covid IS fake news, retard

[Anonymous No.17422394]

>>17422386
you can't believe everything that crosses your desk with a hashtag, my dude

[Anonymous No.17422395]

>>17422381
sure, everything is fake unless you heard it from don lemon on cnn, right? fuckong NPCs bro I swear to God

[Anonymous No.17422401]

>>17422394
Not my fault that you're not keeping up with the science

[Anonymous No.17422440]

>>17422386
>>17422401
Wow, that almost entirely supports exactly what the far-right & Trump have said about the virus! If only the lamestream media didn't suppress this, their entire "follow the science", "wear masks" and "lockdowns work" was a total lie!
Crazy how the deep state AND China created it, and that they failed to figure out that Ivermectin was a cure. Shocking.

[Anonymous No.17422447]

>>17422440

[Anonymous No.17422450]

>>17422440
Yes, legacy media was instrumental in spreading the hoax that was used as pretense for the expansion of executive power and the strengthening of the police state apparatus. If you can't see the forest for the trees, you're hopeless and perfectly fit for slavery.

[Anonymous No.17422452]

>>17422440
It's difficult communicating with someone who has a rudimentary grasp of english, Deng. How many years of shitposting do you have left before they'll let you see your wife and kid again?

[Anonymous No.17422458]

>>17422440
I assume lefties still hate companies so chew on this. Ivermectin is one cent per dose. The vaccine made phfizer 35 billion in a year. Health studies are entirely controlled by health companies. This means the people in charge of the information are the people who stand to profit. Do you at least see the conflict of interest?

[Anonymous No.17422516]

I can write fake schizo shit about govt conspiracies in courier new and post it on my PUREBLOOD VAX FREE PATRIOTS Facebook page too. It doesn’t mean I'm correct.

[Anonymous No.17422526]

1993

[Anonymous No.17422531]

>>17422516
Lmao what indignant seethe. You do know that people are capable of actual research, and able to distinguish real information from qanon trumptard bullshit. Not everyone who disagrees with the dominant corporate narrative is a retarded "patriot" who thinks JFK is still alive.

[Anonymous No.17422627]

>>17422452
i'm white, blonde hair, blue eyes with germanic heritage, you mutt american.
>>17422458
if horse paste and fish tank cleaner was a cure, why does florida have to spend billions on antibody treatments that still don't stop people dying of covid?

[Anonymous No.17422652]

>>17422627
>if horse paste and fish tank cleaner was a cure, why does florida have to spend billions on antibody treatments that still don't stop people dying of covid?
are you legitimately retarded or simply pretending?

[Anonymous No.17422663]

>>17422652
I'm afraid I don't understand the question.

[Anonymous No.17422685]

>>17422663
that is an answer in and of itself.

[Anonymous No.17422688]

>>17422627
I mean if the question is volume of medicine and not volume of patients, I think it's obvious. Florida is the only state going hard on treatment rather than the "vaccine or death" approach. As for the numbers, I'll have to look at some primary sources later otherwise we're just yelling at each other

[Anonymous No.17422702]

>>17422652
thank you for conceding to my victory.

[Anonymous No.17422708]

>>17422702
if you are an adult male and have honestly asked that question your faculties are not in order. very basic stuff, really.

[Anonymous No.17422713]

>>17422627
Government expenditure = corporate profits. It's the way its always been. The military-industrial complex makes excuses to go to war to sell their bombs and planes. Big pharma pays politicians to give them billions of dollars for their patented treatment.

[Anonymous No.17422716]

>>17412679
Damn, look at that woman.

[Anonymous No.17422732]

I've seen these arguments repeated over and over across the site, but can you guys just tell me why? Do you actually think the businesses and politicians love you? Do you think that the news, owned by the same guys that own the prior two, is giving you good info? Why are you so passionately arguing in favor of the unelected rulers that conspire to make your life worse because it makes them a dime? Please tell me, I'm so desperate to understand ar this point. Are you just trolling?

[Anonymous No.17422739]

The amount of historically illiterate bullshit itt is off the charts. As bad as a /his/ thread.

[Anonymous No.17422751]

>>17422732
I'm pretty sure businesses are currently only running to try and get specifically your mother to fellate me. my doctors tell me it's a delusion but when you looks at all the pieces they come together perfectly. I don't know anything about politics but if you watch the nasdaq it becomes very obvious what they're doing. It seems hopeless but I promise you I will resist her pressed advances as much as I can.

[Anonymous No.17422753]

>>17422732
because the alternative is vewy vewy skawy. pretty much on the level of they live because of how consequential the admission of this truth is.

[Anonymous No.17422757]

>>17412678
Might have been a meme, but is it true beer wasn't considered a alcoholic beverage in old days russia?

[Anonymous No.17422769]

>>17422732
just look at the state of the world over the last couple of years
a little dose of hard reality and half the population succumbed to anxiety/depression
it's easier to pretend everything's fine

[Anonymous No.17422771]

>>17419881
It's not just an American thing. All that kinda stuff you are describing was possible when I lived in the UK. It's a western thing.

[Anonymous No.17422773]

>>17422757
first i hear of that. kvas wasnt considered such, yet naturally brewed kvas ought to have either .5 or up to 1.5% which is basically a radler / shandy. and kvas was sold from the same looking tanks as beer, see >>17412679

[Anonymous No.17422783]

>>17422627
>why does florida have to spend billions
They're not being forced to do anything. If they had their choice they'd do nothing and let you all die, the government doesn't give a shit about you at all. Anytime they spend money it's just kickbacks to their crony buddies who they play golf with.

[Anonymous No.17422793]

>>17422627
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism
Please educate yourself and turn off the TV.

[Anonymous No.17422808]

>>17421541
Its a cigarette with a papirosa design, a hollow tube of cardboard attached to the cigarette is bent to create holder.
>>17421552
>Russia's trashy culture
These existed in the west before filters were generally sold, they just weren't very popular.
>>17422234
Rolling papers have always existed and people have always ryo, it isn't a modern trend.

[Anonymous No.17422913]

>>17422060
Toвapищ I remember that my mother put it with salt for flavor and reduce bitterness

[Anonymous No.17422921]

>>17415536
Food shortage makes you more innovative. Who would've come up with Toast Hawaii if there were other options?

[Anonymous No.17422937]

>>17421414
>They are a emergence
You'd know it was "an" not "a" if you were a native speaker, Chang.

[Anonymous No.17422947]

>>17422937
He's prolly Russian not chinanese, but either way he's not wrong

[Anonymous No.17422983]

>>17422757
I heard anything under 5% was considered non alcoholic

[Anonymous No.17422987]

>>17422983
wel ya heard wrong dum dum

[Anonymous No.17423097]

>>17422947
Sure thing, Chang.

[Anonymous No.17423106]

>>17422377
>Dr. Pino tells FOX 35 that one "could actually argue that it could have been the COVID-19 that caused him to crash."

[Anonymous No.17423120]

>>17423106
Lmao of course it did. He coofed himself into the other car

[Anonymous No.17423319]

>>17422526
>50 eggs newman

[Anonymous No.17423406]

>>17412712
This: this is a taste of my childhood.

[Anonymous No.17423793]

>>17415174
based and natalya pilled

[Anonymous No.17425352]

>>17412678
sometimes you need a little iron in your diet

[Anonymous No.17426055]

bump

[Anonymous No.17426535]

>>17412678

[Anonymous No.17426545]

Met a russian in a game recently, he didn't speak English and I didn't speak cyka blyat. We communicated by using google translate and writing on note items in the game to give to each other.
Cool guy.

[Anonymous No.17426563]

>>17413079
based self-reflector who sees himself in newfag retards

[Anonymous No.17426580]

>>17426535
the first one was very legit and still available in 98ish ua. 3/9 were still a thing around 06, 7 too prolly.
also, rollan.

[Anonymous No.17426588]

>>17426580
>0
fuck you hiroshimoot.

[Anonymous No.17426647]

>>17412678

[Anonymous No.17426682]

>>17412678

[Anonymous No.17426877]

>>17419881
Your not wrong anon, and our countrymen are flushing that luxury down the shitter because of their that ignorance.

[Anonymous No.17427158]

>>17412678

[Anonymous No.17427320]

>>17412678

[Anonymous No.17428316]

who's got the old photo of obama's commie mother squatting on a kenyan soda bottle?

[Anonymous No.17428766]

>>17412678

[Anonymous No.17428787]

>>17428766
Fucking love this shit.

[Anonymous No.17428809]

>>17418698
The only similarities I see are t-shirts and slacks. The average American working man in the 70's was a mustachioed, bespectacled, bell-bottomed sex machine.

[Anonymous No.17428859]

>>17426545
wholesome

[Anonymous No.17429708]

>>17413760
these suck dude, there's nothing to them. I grew up in russia until I was ten before we moved and had fond memories of them. Tried one recently and realised it was all just rose tinted glasses

[Anonymous No.17429867]

>>17422153
I read it in late December, recently finished re-reading Brothers Karamazov after more than a decade and I can only say that it made me appreciate Master and Margarita much more (I re-read Faust some months ago and I think that's another obvious influence on Bulgakov).

>>17422244
I will read a different translation but next year, have you seen the Master and Margarita series from 2005? It's decent, it has good music (INRI, INRI, INRI, INRI, Abracadabra) and the early 00s videogames CGI makes it soulful.

[Anonymous No.17430035]

>>17412678

[Anonymous No.17431146]

>>17429867
its decent, but that fucking cat...

[Anonymous No.17431332]

>>17412678

[Anonymous No.17431616]

Russianbros, hear me out, I've been wondering about this for a while.
With how small vendor/kiosk fast food (samsa, belyashi and ESPECIALLY shaurma) were mocked and ridiculed at the start of the century but have been normalised sort-of-recently, was the whole thing a McDonalds-sponsored smear campaign to push food kiosks out of the market?

[Anonymous No.17431635]

>>17426535
>tomato ice cream
The fuck? My parents have never mentioned anything of the sort. Why did they stop making it?

[Anonymous No.17431646]

>>17431616
doubt.jpg
its mostly due to shitskins running these places. in a shocking turn of events shitskins arent known for food hygiene quality. so stories of going on a shitting spree after some random shaverma are completely common and relatable.
outside of "premium" living spaces your satisfaction of hygiene standards is proven with bribes instead of adherence to code, so unless you shit the bed hard enough for somebody to go viral with roaches or rats at your eatery you are fine.

[Anonymous No.17431670]

>>17412678
Allow me to provide the soundtrack to this thread

https://youtu.be/oavMtUWDBTM

[Anonymous No.17431804]

>>17413674
Is that a Carhartt beanie? These stupid things truly are everywhere. What a scourge.

[Anonymous No.17431830]

>>17431616
Generally, if you can order shaurma through delivery (like yandex food or delivery club) it will be good and the vendor is ok. Same if the vendor is popular and sustained for years, or opposite - is newcomer and support quality to attract customers.

[Anonymous No.17431842]

>>17431830
>tfw been to Moscow, SpB, Germany and Turkey and none of them have had shaurma as good as the local chain in Ufa

[Anonymous No.17432271]

>>17418270
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8LtQhIQ2AE

[Anonymous No.17432337]

>>17421694
>Just like your favorite orange buffoon, lmao
fuck you, it was just a recipe for a dessert

[Anonymous No.17432344]

>>17432337
get that fascist homophobe out of here

[Anonymous No.17432396]

>>17431146
There are some questionable things when it comes to the characters but Margarita and Pilate carry the show.

[Anonymous No.17432402]

>>17432396
yea, the cheesus dialogues were absolute perfection.

[Anonymous No.17432725]

>>17431616
nah. it's things like gypsies selling "hot" food in the middle of winter that turn out to be frozen ice cold. kek. but that's what you get for being stupid and desperate enough to buy shit from gypsies