[baursak]

I think there were several different periods where things were not bad, and when things were not that great, like the 60s, 70s, or 80s, and different people who lived in the USSR refer to different periods, so you get people claiming very different things.

These data, at least, don't support the claims that Soviets were always starving: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-per-capita-caloric-...