What Socialism Looks Like Part 2

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It's an election year, so the unions are out spending money in a big push for an increase in the minimum wage. Whenever unions come out of the woodwork, you invariably see the communist wings of those parties (often in the leadership positions) come out and start pushing for other communist ideas as well.

Lately the #FullCommunism hashtag has been trending on social media as more and more politicians start voicing support for a minimum wage. It's obvious that none of the people supporting this movement have ever lived under a communist regime, so here is another video illustrating what every day life was like in the Soviet Union.

This video shows various shopping experiences in Tallinn in 1990, the capital of Estonia, one year before they revolted and gained their independence from the Soviet Union.

Food was rationed in order to make sure that everyone got their "fair share".  Again, we see the quality of products and customer service when competition and the profit motive are removed from the economy.

Notice the lines for purchasing gasoline.  To those of you who think that it can not happen here, all you have to do is look to the 1970s to see that it already has happened here.  Many of us have no problem remembering the gas lines caused by rationing which was the result of the 1979 Energy Crisis that was created by the Iranian Islamic Revolution and idiotic U.S. foreign policy.

Once again, we see the effects of a top-down, command and control economy or "Planned Economy". 

In 1991, Estonia declared their independence from the USSR after a 4 year revolt known as the "Singing Revolution".  

The destruction of the centralized government, attracted investment from outside Estonia and from within.   In 2003, only 12 years after the above video, we see the effects of Capitalism in the same city of Tallinn.  

Still, we have idiots making and selling this stuff. 

Selling?  Not very Communist...

What Socialism Looks Like

Here is a video of a Soviet Era grocery store in Russia  from 1986.   

This striking video shows what happens when government regulates commerce.  This is the end-result of central planning and bureaucracy.  This is a prophecy of what is to come in the United States and other countries that are on the path of Socialism.  

Despite the warnings from those who lived there, the United States is steaming down the path of totalitarianism at full speed.

I grew up with a friend whose family escaped from Russia.  I remember a story he told in elementary school.  He told me about the time his father walked into a supermarket for the first time in the U.S.  He said that his father took a few steps into the door then stopped in his tracks, his jaw dropped, and just stood there and cried.

These stories are unheard by people like this:

Take a look at the video to see what society considers "fair".