How a grocery store stop in Clear Lake, Tx started an end to the Soviet Union

[AntlerCollector]

https://blog.chron.com/thetexican/2014/04/when-boris-yeltsin-went-grocery-shopping-in-clear-lake/#photo-433894

I hope this link worked. I thought it was a cool story. If you have Facebook it's also on Traces of Texas.



As Americans it's so easy to take for granted all we are blessed with in this Country

[VinnysquidTX]

Very Cool

[Stoof]

Who woulda thunk it? Cool story.

[jerp]

I've always thought that was a powerful story - thanks for the reminder. In that pre-internet age, the Soviet Union was able to keep their people in the dark - they probably figured everyone around the world stood in line for hours for a few paltry goods like they did. It is remarkable how there are still those who rant against the free market capitalism that makes all this stuff available to everybody.

[Abcdj]

Good read! Thanks AC

[CabezaBlanca]

Thank you! I didn't know that!

[Chad_E]

...and now I can finally go home for the day after learning something new. Interesting!!

[hpdrifter]

Read something to that effect somewhere. Said he thought the market was a put on at first. Had em stop at another one along the route and finally realized it was the way it is. '
Good story. How lucky we are!

[txhunter007]

That’s cool

[Michael]

Fascinating story! Thanks for sharing.

[CEO]

Great story.

[AntlerCollector]

I'm glad y'all enjoyed it. God Bless America

[rosco11]

Very cool article!
Just think if he stopped into a modern HEB with samples on every other aisle and got a taste of brisket or hatch chili anything!

He'd be applying for his visa!

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[TheHammer]

Good stuff! Free market trumps all. Still can’t understand how people don’t see it that way 40 years later.

[flywise]

I've always thought that was a powerful story - thanks for the reminder. In that pre-internet age, the Soviet Union was able to keep their people in the dark - they probably figured everyone around the world stood in line for hours for a few paltry goods like they did. It is remarkable how there are still those who rant against the free market capitalism that makes all this stuff available to everybody.

Ditto
I've heard the story a few times and your exactly right.
With out American capitalism there would have been hundreds of millions more dead of starvation world wide.