That does kind of point out that the ending of the famine cycles in the modern world wasn't a capitalism vs socialism split or even centralization, it was technological innovation and industrialization itself.

The greatest famines of the mid to late 20th century were genocides, not crop failures, and hunger and lack on a daily basis in the 21st is a social choice.

Yeah. But I think it’s important to understand both, much in the same way that the American government and capitalism lead to both the modern age of plenty and the dust bowl.

Stalin was long dead in the 1980s, when this number is from.

Pretty sure you’re just being deliberately obtuse. The CIA was definitely going to be talking about the Soviet Union not under Stalin. That was most of the Soviet Union, even.

Idk where you’re coming off that a hit against American history classes is unwarranted. US grade school education about the USSR takes a snapshot of the 1930s and then it’s the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Another commenter posted that it is from 1983.

Modern day Russia ≠ USSR.

Modern day Russia is Capitalist. That isn't the counter argument you think it is.

I think this post is just pointing out that the people of the USSR weren't under a constant threat of starvation like many believe.

Their "bread" is often as sweet as cake batter.

No, it doesn't. Most of the mass produced stuff does have sugar and really shouldn't, but it doesn't come anywhere near tasting like cake batter.

That's quite a bit of exaggeration. Here's a link to an American grocery chain if you actually want to compare. https://www.meijer.com/shopping/search.html?text=bread