Posted on 03/25/2014 10:02:17 PM PDT by No One Special
I remember our daily food always coming from a long, long line at the end of which was a loaf of bread, a liter of milk, a stick of butter, a bottle of murky cooking oil, or a kilo of bones with traces of meat and fat on them.
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If we wanted to eat, we learned at a very young age that we had to stand in long lines every day, often in bitter cold at 4 a.m. in hopes that the store would not run out of bread or milk by the time we made it to the front counter.
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It wasn’t that the country did not produce enough food in spite of its disastrous centralized communist party planning. The mad dictator Ceausescu was determined to industrialize the country at the expense of people’s food – he exported so much to the West in exchange for technology and hard currency that the Romanians had to make do with the leftover food not fit for export.
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But that was nothing compared to the Soviet plan to starve the Romanian population of Bessarabia in 1946-1947 in order to achieve collectivization. According to the 1897 census, almost 48% of the population was Moldovan and thus spoke Romanian. Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina were Romanian-held prior to the military occupation by the Soviet Red Army during June 28-July 4, 1940. To avoid a military conflict, Romania withdrew from the area following a Soviet ultimatum delivered on June 26. The Romanian province was recaptured by Ion Antonescu from 1941-1944 and then reoccupied by the Soviets in 1944. The regions were subsequently incorporated into the USSR....
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Eventually every discussion comes back to resisting the gun-grabbing bastards, doesn't it?
Our government is slowly making ‘progress’ in this direction.
Here is an aspect of the food stamp presidency not mentioned in media articles praising Obama:
The federal government of today not only “provides food for the needy”, they work hard to create more needy people who must rely on the government for their sustenance.
When the government is your only source of food , the government is your master.
I’ve known older Americans who lived poor and went through the depression of the 1930s.
When times were good they raised and canned lots of food because they knew hard times may be just around the corner.
During WWII my Sister-in-law’s husbands family had their home grown food supply confiscated by government agents because someone said they were “hoarding”. They had to live on food stored in another cellar way out in the Texas hills till the new crops came in.
Even in more affluent times they could not stand to see food wasted. As late as 1963 my aunt would save grease from foods to make soap even though store bought soap was cheap.
It appears many of today’s adults have forgotten those hard times and lessons.
***Food has historically been one of the most effective weapons in a despot’s arsenal.***
TRUE! It worked to control the hostile Indians by killing all the buffalo on the plains, forcing them to become dependent on the US government.
It worked for the Chi-Coms. They forced people to work by issuing “food credits” after so much labor had been done.
Sadly America produced so much food, even in the 1930s, during depression and drought that the government bought up thousands of livestock, shot and buried them, while also dumping milk, and limiting how much grain could be grown, all to get the price UP!
As my Mother-in-law said, “in those days it was steak for breakfast, steak for lunch,, steak for supper till you got tired of it.”
Sad thing is there were no jobs for many people to earn money to buy the steak.
“well, not everyone is going to be happy”.
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Remind her of that, at an appropriate moment when she is ranting against some Constitutional limitation on governmental power.
There’s a very interesting 7:00 minute video on the kangaroo court that Romania put those two through featuring footage of the firing squad. Very interesting how the people reacted to this execution. Decent people. Nice Mothers rooting for the end of these 2 tyrants.
And woe to the unarmned democrat, hipsters that voted to escalate this chain of events.
Yep. Josef Stalin certainly used it (in the Ukraine and other areas) to an appalling degree.
Those people didn't have access to food to store from the beginning of that era. We have plenty of food in this country right now to store whatever we want. No one will know what you have if you don't tell anyone and don't have it out in the open.
If you store nothing, then you have nothing if a natural disaster happens like hurricane, storm, tornado, earthquake, ice storm, loss of power for whatever reason, loss of water if it gets contaminated for whatever reason or is turned off for some reason. It makes sense to have supplies and food/water.
Need a license.
Want to sell your extra plants or veggies at a home yard sale in Red Hampshire?
Need a license.
'Live Free or Die', my ass.
RC, my guess is most of them will turn to ash in the first wave of ‘gimmie dat’s’ coming out of the cities... but you are welcome to pick off what is left...
“As late as 1963 my aunt would save grease from foods to make soap...”
We still do that. My wife’s ‘grandma’s lye soap’ is pure and unadulterated with all the stuff that goes into detergents that they call soap. We use it for everything, including bathing, washing hair and washing clothes in the washing machine. We do have soft water. Sometimes we might add 20 Mule Team Borax or trisodium phosphate to the homemade stuff in the washing machine.
And btw, the homemade soap will stop poison ivy in its tracks...get into some, just wash with this soap.
Food has historically been one of the most effective weapons in a despot’s arsenal.
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Let’s see. Our leftist totalitarian fascist president and his lackies at the EPA have stopped half the needed water from entering the San Joquian valley which is the vegetable basket of the US.
Dams have been taken down in the northern US and conservative communities and farmlands are inundated with spring floodwaters.
Requirements for corn ethanol as an additive to gasoline has taken millions of bushels of grains out of the food system.
I think the shooting has already begun.
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago
***And btw, the homemade soap will stop poison ivy in its tracks***
Great stuff! I also make my own soap. I’ve got enough to last about three years!
Store bought soap just can’t compare.
I have a copy of the movie THE GOOD EARTH. It still amazes me how the starving people swarmed the house of one family when everyone thought they had FOOD there.
It’s all part of The Plan. Once fedgov has complete control of health care, food supply and energy we are nothing but slaves and serfs.
You just described my grandmother who I lived with til I was about 12. She always had a huge garden and canned everything. I spent hours and hours shucking corn etc. getting it ready for her. Every spare scrap of material was turned into quilts. All buttons and zippers were ripped off old clothing and saved. Absolutely nothing was discarded.
It was a different time and I can certainly understand the longing for a more perfect world.
And those were people who were simply starving - people will do anything when they’re hungry. But, in this interesting article, it was the Romanian government - full of well-fed bureaucrats - going around taking food from citizens hoarding grain. Using sticks to prod haystacks for hidden grain. Creepy beyond belief.
I hate people!
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