Sarah Paine

And then would buy, the Russians produced really good sugar beets.

Got beets.

And then you're starting to get rotten apples over the winter, but they at least come from Hungary.

Russians don't even produce apples in those days, but Hungarians did.

And the Romanians provided the canned tomatoes, and I could do a credible borscht.

But you're talking about,

This is Moscow, the center of everything.

And we're dealing, I remember buying potatoes at the market and the rotten spots felt gelatinous.

So you'd have to cut those out.

And then you're wondering how many nutrients are in the rest of that potato.

It was a really gross year.

And then, yeah, I remember going to the candy store and I mean, I'm just not, I would buy caramel from Poland or somewhere.

It was like a food item because it was actually edible.

Yeah, well, my brother's comment is you're studying Russia and China, two countries in the breakdown lane.

Oh, they would have compared it by pound.

I was watching Tiananmen Fall, the Tiananmen demonstrations on Soviet TV.

And the only reason you got that TV coverage is because Gorbachev was in Beijing.

So all the press was there.

That's why you have the coverage.

And they stayed on because the students were demonstrating and the Chinese closed society weren't aware of power of television, of guys, they're gonna film you doing all of this stuff and they will get the film out.