Rebekah Koffler: USSR 2.0 — my adopted US homeland is giving me flashbacks to the Russia I fled
International | September 1, 2021
Under socialism, everything was provided by the government free or nearly free. But the cruel joke was on the people: nothing was available.
We stood in line for hours to get basic staples. You got in line before you even knew what it was for because there was an indefinite shortage of everything. You waited 10 to 15 years to get a telephone installed in a government-owned apartment or buy a car. We had no necessities, like sanitary products or toilet paper.
Socialism simply does not produce enough goods and services: Who would work harder for the same paltry, barely subsistence-level wage as everyone else? We had a saying, “The government pretends to pay us, and we pretend to work.”… (Excerpts from Fox News)