[lbo-talk] Consumer goods (Back to the USSR)

[Jon Johanning]

One aspect of consumer goods that hasn't been discussed in this thread 
yet (or if it has, I've missed it) is food. One big part of anti-USSR 
propaganda I recall vividly is the constant pictures of grocery stores 
with one moldy cabbage on the shelves, and the claim that Soviet 
agriculture was always in trouble, partly because of the Lysenko 
business (also, I guess, because so much emphasis in the 5-year plans 
went to industrial development). Any truth to this?

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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