AdisAuthorSprady, and the food lines in Lithuania were not the worst lines of USSR. Actually, Baltic States were being called "almost the West", and it was much easier here. But still bad. In 1980s there were no foot shortage anymore, but was a horrible lack of variety, and I still remember how did usual shop looked like: big hall, lot's of empty spaces amd empty shelves. All you can buy is two or three sorts of groats, canned spat in tomato sauce or oil (but in such quality, that you would not it today. But then it was a stadard), hooves of long-dead pigs with very few meat on it, stinky potatoes (because at least 1/4 of them starting to rot, but no one cares to remove it), the salt, one brand of milk and two sords of bread. And this is not some tiny store, this is one of two or even three "supermarkets" of the district. And you can get these not because of everybody likes and are buying it, but because nobody buys it. The popular products disappear in an hour or two. That's the glorious planned economy, baby! And yeah, it may sound like some absurd fantasy, it's hard to brelieve in that for myself, that I was living in it, but that happened. You did not need a shopping list when you go shopping - it's up to 10 sorts of merchandise, so it's impossible to forget something :)