[Deo volente]

Venezuela


America

[xp38]

I hate to break it to you but the photo you list as America is actually a Canadian supermarket due to the brands of bread. The one for Venezuela could be correct. Never been there to know.

[Tax-chick]

In addition to know food, socialism means nobody cleans up the mess.

[Flick Lives]

When I see shelves like that, I’m reminded of the Soviet pilot who defected to the West in his MIG-25 Foxbat in 1976. When he was first taken to a U.S. Grocery store he was convinced it was some sort of CIA prop. He couldn’t believe the shelves could be so full.

http://seanmunger.com/2013/09/06/the-odyssey-of-viktor-belenko-a-fascinating-footnote-to-the-cold-war/

[bassmaner]

The sad part of the image from Venezuela is the picture on the back wall. It probably wasn't all that many years ago that food was plentiful and those shelves well-stocked: a reality reflected by that depiction of a large variety of available meat products.

Contrast that with images from the old USSR, with dour clerks scowling behind empty counters in front of bare walls, doling out whatever crumbs were available to the 'masses'. The long-suffering Russians didn't know any better, but hopefully the people of VZ that once knew a modicum of prosperity will wise up and give Maduro the Ceaucescu treatment.