Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "Grocery Shopping in the USSR. Stores "FRUITS u0026 VEGETABLES" #ussr" video.

  1. The Yugoslav government allow people to keep what was called "family land". That was an acre or two that a family had to prove had been owned by members of the family going back to about 1800. Other than those plots, all land was owned by the government, and all farming was done on collective farms. If anyone doesn't believe capitalism is the only system that assures the maximum supply of goods to the people, they should have visited Slovenia in the 70's and, I imagine, the Ukraine at the same time. People who lived in the city would always go out to the country and work their family lands. Estimates I've read is those plots produced almost 40% of the food grown in Slovenia. Family plots produced food from literally even square inch of soil while the collective farms always looked half empty, and the plants looked half dead.
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  2. LOL.Yes, it seems Russia has gone from one of the poorest debtor nations to one of the wealthiest in the space of 35 years. What could have changed? I'm not a great fan of Putin, but one of the things he understands is the value of private property and getting out of the way of people using it. The amazing thing is the number of people in the West who are still admirers of Soviet socialism and think the problems with socialism is the Soviets just didn't do it right.
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