How Communistic! I was able to visit East Berlin before the wall came down and observed several state-owned stores. The one characteristic of all were long lines waiting to get in to stores with very few goods for sales. I saw a shoe store with perhaps 100 people waiting in line to get in the store while there might have been 50 pairs of shoes on the shelves. CONTROL is the objective.
Imagine what East Berlin would have looked like if Chicago blacks were standing in those lines....
:-)