Buy my lunch AND pay me!

[Que.]

this sounds like a cartoon villain plot for some reason

[joeym]

There's something ironic about the USSR being able to utilize American subsidies on domestic wheat to prevent starvation in the USSR.

[jaredsamonte]

"Grain pain" lol what a classic. Instant knee slapper

[TheJayTex]

“The system works”
The systems in question:

[pickle]

That is the funniest thing I have ever heard of

[CreiveExercise]

"Heh heh... He said masturbation, Butthead"

[NicoparaDEV]

It wasn't the Soviets fault the Americans subsidize their food

[brian]

Lest we forget that time a town in WV tried desperately to get funds to build a needed bridge to help connect it with the main roads and nearly got that funding from the Soviet Union until the federal government caught wind of the deal and THEN decided to green light the funds.

[tristandaries]

I love how instead of the inflation matching the fact that a third of the supply went missing, the demand tripled

[dots]

I thought i heard something weird, played it back again, and said "oh he said 'mass starvation' 😀"

[DC-pmlc]

To be fair, they bought it with money. And it was to save there people.

[joeyjojojrshabadoo]

Russia wanted to buy and American farmers wanted to sell, I'm not seeing the problem.

[GrandTerr]

So you finally accepted your level of humor - shorts

[trovaosoares]

This is the funniest thing ive heard yet present the broken parts of both broken systems. One sells to their biggest enemy and even hurts their own population doing so while the other cant even produce enough food to sustein its own people, hurting them also

[guilhermed.c.]

Fun fact, Russia has a lot of fertile land (and used to have more since they controlled Ukraine), however, their chief of agricultural science or whatever didn't believe in evolution, instead, he believed in some other theory, which made the USSR crop yield decline massively, ultimately making them need to buy American grain despite having been called Europe's bread basket in the past

[gobbotits]

Oh hey, I used to work for Cargill. I worked in a factory that made animal feed

[BaconLover]

You should talk about the Vulcan bridge incident or Operation Paul Bunyan

[petruska]

Lets not forgot when there were several editors of the NYT being soviet spies

[Osama_Zyn_Laden]

Honestly you got to admit that was kind of smart though

[everydaysunset]

No way us intellgents didnt knownir was super likely knowingly given the grains