@davatron5000 ooh, interesting. I do get some insights from being in former East Germany.
Talked to a foreman from a factory who told me a tale where his team ran out of M8 nuts and there were none to be had in the region. The team had to hand-make them for a couple of days...
You might be interested in TraumaZone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_1985%E2%80%931999:_TraumaZone
@douginamug @davatron5000 — I was going to suggest this exact same series. I felt like, as a Gen-X American who grew up in a flurry of Hollywood Cold War military movies, this was INCREDIBLY revealing. I watched the entire series, all 7 hours.
"Revealing", as in, it revealed just how little I knew about what went on in Russia during this era. It put a lot of the stories that we're told growing up in this era in the US in a different light.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSjQL8MYniTTLA3wnZ25U-s6RgR4uJNvL
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