I read something similar to what Boris Yeltsin was quoted about. It was the reaction of a pilot who had flown a MIG into an airbase in the West. When taken to the US, he was shown a super market. He told his escort “I believe that this store was stocked and prepared just for me to see.”
He was told, “no, there are many stores like this in every American town. They compete to sell their goods so they are fresh and priced right. If not, the customer goes to another store.”
It is amazing to hear how the commies kept their subjects in the dark, unaware of the “Western Way.”
The book was: Mig Pilot, by Viktor Belenko.
I bought that book when it first came out and the last chapter was the best. After his debrief someone gave him the keys to a Cessna and a credit card and told him to fly wherever he wanted. His one big statement was our poor people were overweight and had big bellies due to too much food whereas the real starving people he saw were to due the bloat caused by actual starvation.
He went on to say that with the style of government we had at that time we had actually created a Socialist country that worked.