Even worse than what I remember hearing about how Russians in the 80’s would stand in line for several hours so they could be allowed to buy a rationed amount of meat, or toilet paper.
“...Russians in the 80’s would stand in line for several hours so they could be allowed to buy a rationed amount of meat, or toilet paper...”
Not even Communist Party members had toilet paper in Russia in the 1980s. They used paper from Party Congress reports and so forth. People would see a line and get in it knowing some food commodity had come in.