The notorious “bread lines” also came as a result of Gorbachev’s liberalization and the collapse of supply chains that went along with it. Like the primary dissent against the CPSU was that there weren’t enough consumer treats for everyone to live like white American suburbanites, leading the liberal bloc of the CPSU to suggest that “idk what if we make companies buy stuff from each other, lol, lmao, that’s probably magic and will fix everything because we earnestly do not know where all the cheap consumer goods and resources the privileged segments of American society consume come from as we have forgotten what ‘imperialism’ or ‘the exploitation of a rural or racial underclass’ are and so believe it is literally free market magic that makes consumer goods just spontaneously appear from nothing by doing freedom or something, lol, lmao” which obviously cratered consumer good production because they just fucking Sears-ed themselves and suddenly there weren’t enough staple foods to go around and public trust in the CPSU collapsed (alongside an anti-communist propaganda campaign by the anti-communist extremist Gorbachev put in charge of the state media, and the local branches of the Communist Party being systematically isolated and hamstringed by Gorbachev’s bloc).
The notorious “bread lines” also came as a result of Gorbachev’s liberalization and the collapse of supply chains that went along with it. Like the primary dissent against the CPSU was that there weren’t enough consumer treats for everyone to live like white American suburbanites, leading the liberal bloc of the CPSU to suggest that “idk what if we make companies buy stuff from each other, lol, lmao, that’s probably magic and will fix everything because we earnestly do not know where all the cheap consumer goods and resources the privileged segments of American society consume come from as we have forgotten what ‘imperialism’ or ‘the exploitation of a rural or racial underclass’ are and so believe it is literally free market magic that makes consumer goods just spontaneously appear from nothing by doing freedom or something, lol, lmao” which obviously cratered consumer good production because they just fucking Sears-ed themselves and suddenly there weren’t enough staple foods to go around and public trust in the CPSU collapsed (alongside an anti-communist propaganda campaign by the anti-communist extremist Gorbachev put in charge of the state media, and the local branches of the Communist Party being systematically isolated and hamstringed by Gorbachev’s bloc).