Jurnal Singkat

  https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1552324765154611201     There was a Soviet joke: - What is long, green and smells with sausage? - Moscow-Tver train Why? Well, under the USSR provincials had to go shopping to Moscow. Their shops had no food, often very literally. Today we'll learn an expression "supply category"     Under the centrally planned economy it was the state which supplied food to the localities. It would assign each city one of four "supply categories" determining how much food there will be on shelves. Moscow was supplied far better than anyone while cities like Tver - horribly       Provincial Soviet cities of the lower supply categories might have no food on the shelves at all. Sometimes very literally. Sometimes they would have only the scraps from the table of the higher status city: like some algae, or the disgusting paste "Ocean"   That's difficult for a modern Westerner to understand, so I need to reiterate it. When I