What caused the shortages of goods in the later days of the Soviet Union?
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Theft. The entire soviet way of life was based on stealing everything. How good your job was depended on what it enabled you to steal and everyone did, from premier to cleaning lady. Thats why nothing ever made it to shelves in the shop, yet somehow people still got their goods.
The thing to understand about authocracies is that they are inherently corrupt to the level that is hard to imagine for someone grown up in the west. They don’t run on rule of law, law is meaningless, they run on personal relationships. Who knows who makes the difference between living like a king and being free to do whatever you want, or ending up in gulag.
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