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When the Iron Curtain came down on the Soviet Union after World War II and all capitalist influences were kicked out, it was a travesty for the population. There were enormous lines for basic food supplies, medicines, and clothes. People even went so far as to smuggle in Western music on x-rays.
But there was one redeeming feature of state-run communism…