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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]More leisure time in Communist countries.[/b]

Capitalists - and their worker bees - are over-scheduled.[/quote]

If you consider standing in endless lines for basic necessities that were always in short supply to be leisure time, then yeah, okay.[/quote]
If the stuff is in short supply, then what's the point in standing in line. They would ran out before you get there. There were no lines since there was nothing to buy. 
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Let me tell you how it went. You are walking back from work and see a line forming outside a store. You immediately stand there without knowing what will be sold. Start asking: what will they be giving? Some say women’s shoes (bonus if Czech or East German), or children’s jackets, or bananas, or whatever. You continue standing because you don’t know for sure “what they will be giving” but wherever it will be, it would be useful because unless you buy it now, there is no guarantee that in 3 or 6 or 12 or 24 months down the line, it will be sold somewhere again and you would have to look everywhere for it. This is why you would stand in that line. Same thing for food stuffs, you find out the day before that they will be giving out meat (by giving out it means selling), you run at 5:30 or 6 am to book your place in line. You come back at 2 or at 3 or 4 whenever the time is, and take your place in line (that you booked in the early AM) and buy 1 or 2 portions of the meat, because they ration it. Hope this helps to understand. This was the situation in the 1970s and 1980s, towards the collapse. May be it was different in 1950s and 1960’s for food stuffs, but for consumer goods, this was pretty much it. [/quote]

I spent 3 years in Soviet Central Asia in the early 90s.  You nailed the whole 'standing in line' thing!  It was still going on even after the collapse of the Soviet Union.  There were also gray/black markets where you could get stuff but it was far more expensive than getting the same stuff in a store.  A lot of people just couldn't afford the gray/black market. [/quote]

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