Boris Yeltsin's trip to the grocery store...and how it awed him

Sadistic-Savior · Nov 10, 2014

This is actually pretty funny. Even growing up in the 80s it is easy to forget that the internet was not always around, and there was a time when even world leaders were ignorant on how people lived on the rest of the planet.

Yeltsin, then 58, roamed the aisles of Randalls nodding his head in amazement, wrote Asin. He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the conditions of U.S. supermarkets, there would be a revolution.
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Yeltsin asked customers about what they were buying and how much it cost, later asking the store manager if one needed a special education to manage a store [lol]. In the Chronicle photos, you can see him marveling at the produce section, the fresh fish market, and the checkout counter. He looked especially excited about frozen pudding pops.

In Yeltsins own autobiography, he wrote about the experience at Randalls, which shattered his view of communism, according to pundits. Two years later, he left the Communist Party and began making reforms to turn the economic tide in Russia.

When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people, Yeltsin wrote. That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty! It is terrible to think of it.

http://blog.chron.com/thetexican/20...nt-grocery-shopping-in-clear-lake/#22200101=0
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