Sociologia Econômica: novembro 2018

tl;dr: "journalists" love for association with state actors (and the luxury or glamour they get from it) is responsible for taking longer than it should for the people outside URSS to know the famine was a famine.

Probably this is repeating to a lesser degree in Venezuela right now.

"Everywhere was the cry, “There is no bread. We are dying.” This cry came from every part of Russia, from the Volga, Siberia, White Russia, the North Caucasus, Central Asia …...