[sili]

Try spending more than an hour visiting every produce store in your (hypothetical) town to find a loaf of bread because they all out of stock by mid-morning, and than tell me that a well-stocked supermarket near by is of no use.

Try going to your free dentist for a filling and have their drill bit break in half while inside your tooth.

Lastly, quality of many food products available outside of major cities was not much different from "petroleum-based cheese product".

[asciilifeform]

Oh, I will try. And so will you. In a few years.

Does a high-quality American (well, probably Japanese) drill bit enter your teeth if you can't pay the dentist?

And what will you eat from the (temporarily) well-stocked market shelves once your bank account is empty?

[burgerbrain]

You seem to be harboring a lot of anger. What is really going on here?

[asciilifeform]

You seem to be harboring a lot of complacency. What is really going on here?

[burgerbrain]

What makes you think I am complacent?

[guard-of-terra]

What makes you think he is angry? He has a point. It is consistent. It might be false, might be true but most certainly it is partially true. He doesn't need to be angry to state his point.

By demonstrating certain naive views about soviet union, people here motivate him to try and shake their world picture in hopes that it would somehow fix itself a little.

Not that I agree to all the things he writes, but many Russians would. Many would not, but that's what pluralism is about.

[burgerbrain]

I got the impression that he was angry because he kept on deflecting the conversation onto other countries. I commonly see that behaviour "in real life" from people that I would consider to be angry.