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by eveningcoffee
4113 days ago
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Of course there are multiple factors for collapse of SU but from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_goods_in_the_Soviet_Un... > By the time of the Soviet Union's collapse at the end of 1991,
> nearly every kind of food was rationed.
> Non-rationed foods and non-food consumer goods had virtually
> disappeared from state owned stores. Do you think that people were happy about this kind of situation? China was not the only producer of rare earth metals but they used dumping and by that made production of rare earth metals unprofitable elsewhere. After other producers closed their plants, they started to heavily increase the rare earth metal prices. |
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