Why was he so fascinated by some ice cream?

why was he so fascinated by some ice cream?
i don't get it.

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He was in awe due to the variety, being from still commie Russia at the time.

same reason africans are happy to see food

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When you're used to brown boxes full of "Meat" or "Potato" or "Bread" some pretty mundane things can blow your mind.

variety and the fact there was tons of what he considered a luxury item, absolutely blew his fucking mind.

Ice and cream? Together in one delicious treat? Capitalism is amazing! In Soviet Russia, yes we had ice and cream, but not together!

you shoulda seen H Dubya Bush at the checkout

Because there is many kinds, whereas in the glorious Soviet Union there was one kind of ice cream - Ice Cream.

That's a wonderful story. As Yeltsin stroll down the aisles of a small community grocery store in Texas he remark that even senior members of the politburo didn't have that kind of variety. This kind of thing was common and available to even poor Americans. Our economy was that much stronger than theirs. Capitalism had so much more potential than communism.

The stroll down aisle of a small supermarket in Texas changed Yeltsin's entire world view.

He wasn’t he just was being a polite guest. However he did take several different types of string cheese back to Moscow.

>Americans eat this much ice cream? lmao they are truly fucked

He was shocked at how few ice cream flavors Americans had in their stores. Under the Soviet Union they had 500 flavors of ice cream and it was all free. You just walked into the store grabbed as much as you want, say "you can't own ice cream man" and walk out.

You must be retarded.

He was drunk 24/7

my nigga, seeing a pushpop for the first time will blow anyone's mind

this was my reaction visiting walmart for the first time and seeing guns, alcohol, and millions of different snack foods all for sale in one convenient place.

Remember when Yeltsin was considered "fat"?

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I remember when there was only one fat kid in class and he was known as THE fat kid. That's who he was. That was his role. And he was jolly. He had to be. If he was not happy and jolly and good-humored kid, then he was just fat and shameful.

He was literally saying "Holy shit the frozen bins have food. Fuck this might be the end of Communism."

it was just shocking to see all that food just being there when most Russian stores were literally fucking empty most of the time

when some sort of edible or useful stuff arrived, most of it was stolen by the store workers and a huge line formed instantly where people were fighting to get some

Ice cream is fucking delicious, yo.

hmmmm
BINGO

It was a photo-op to the prove the superiority of the market based system. The Soviets didn't exactly have a lot of choice about a lot of things - food included.

But you're just a dumbfuck shill. So FUCK YOU!!!

>Ice Cream.

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Imagine how he felt about all the different liquor. Checked.

>when some sort of edible or useful stuff arrived, most of it was stolen by the store workers

btw, that same mentality characterizes the crooked neo-Soviet KGB officers who are in charge of Russia right now

It is pretty amazing when you put it into perspective.

In about 1994 in boy scouts, my dad was able to buy a Lenin statue from the former USSR. He had it shipped back, a 8ft statue! We all took it up to the mountains on a Scouting trip, used it for target practice, then blew it up with tannerite, and said the pledge of allegiance.
Thank you based Yeltsin.

>He wasn’t he just was being a polite guest
He straight up said there would be revolution in the USSR if people knew what Americans had access to. Even upper members of the communist party couldn't just go buy a pudding pop.

how fragile is communism if it can be destroyed by a few paddle pops and cornettos?.

a supermarket is a wonder of the modern world.

if you don't get that, you dumb.

>based Yeltsin
No

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This. I have a friend who moved here from Russia in the late eighties. He said one of his earliest memories of America was walking into a supermarket. He could not wrap his head around how or why there was so much food.

No he was pretty based.

i hope it was worth it, that statue would be worth tens of thousands of dollars now.

>what?! This is all made thanks to Monsanto? Woooow! brb going to dismantle my country now.

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He didn't see any in Soviet stores

I'd really like to see Putin governing Russia while the price of oil is $10

pls God make it happen for these morons to finally wake up

I hope you get a yeltsin one day

>The stroll down aisle of a small supermarket in Texas changed Yeltsin's entire world view.
Same thing happened to me the first time I heard about Pattaya, Thailand.

Showing yer age there bub ;)

nice act, he was a CIA infiltrate

I come from 3 generations of cold warriors, it was worth it.

and it would still be unfair to Yeltsin because by now many Russian people have learned how to live and work outside communism

Oh he had his flaws I'll grant you that. He was corrupt and had some serious impulse-control issues, but he was awfully courageous for his time and place at least when it really counted in the late 80s and early 90s.

you and your dad sound like retards

Are you thinking of Gorbachev? Yeltsin saw the writing on the walls and just wholesale put Russia up for sale to the highest bidder. Putin in 1991 instead of Yeltsin probably could have kept the Warsaw pact together in some form, or at least mitigated the damage done to Russia.

dog bless

Sex workers?

He later said that was when he knew who would likely win. Also, went to other stores to make sure it wasn't a put on.

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You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

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No. Yeltsin played a major role in the late 80s and early 90s in ensuring the entire state did not collapse. There were hardliners during the fall of the USSR who were standing by and actively seeking to take the helm of state. He was a hell of a politician as evidenced by his ability to rally the reformers. I'll give you that.

And yes the economic shock therapy he instituted was harsh but it was required for a successful reset. He was a strongly reform-minded leader, whatever other flaws he had.

Totally. The USSR had a history of putting on potemkin village theater for western observers and he thought that's what was happening.

Because if a Soviet person from some 1987 had seen a random Walmart, Auchan, Carrefour etc supermarket he would have had a heart stroke.

>successful reset
Yet here we are, the US has Russia more or less under it's thumb (militarily), and really the US just has to step up oil exports to Europe, and do it cheaply and Russia will just be Greece with nukes. There was a lot to save for the Russians, and while 'shock therapy' was a way to embrace capitalism, they did it at the expense of the far superior western capitalists.
Keep in mind, I'm not a socialist by any stretch, but the rapid meltdown (shock therapy) could have been done in slower stages to not collapse the country. It would have probably produced a more liberal Russia as a product, instead of being such a shock between the two that 64% of Russians want the USSR back.

Yeah the pace of Market liberalisation in Russia in the 90s can be debated, but there are a lot of other factors present influencing Russia's inability to compete with United States economically. This factors are geographic, demographic, and cultural. And the USSR was never really a match for the United States either. They were putting more than a quarter of their GDP into military spending. Totally unsustainable. For comparison the US was putting under 5% of its GDP toward the same purpose.

Doesn't nestlè have a ice cream brand with the double hearts pedo logo?
Hmmmmm...

It was in Texas, so he probably saw glorious Blue Bell for the first time.

God Bless Texas for Blue Bell ice cream.

Perhaps but Soviet ice cream was this good.
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Your dad is a literal retard