Worth remembering!-----In 1989, Russian President Boris Yeltsin visited a Houston grocery store and was astonished by the abundance, later describing it as a moment of despair for the Soviet people.

Yeltsin, then a member of the Soviet Politburo, later wrote that the experience made him “sick with despair” for his countrymen, realizing that ordinary Americans enjoyed luxuries unavailable even to Soviet elites.  - Historyfeels

In 1989, Boris Yeltsin stepped into a Randall’s supermarket in Houston, Texas, and was stunned. 

The aisles stretched endlessly, lined with colorful packaging, hundreds of cheeses, frozen meals, and soft drinks stacked to the ceiling. 

• For a man raised under Soviet rationing, it was an epiphany wrapped in disbelief...
• The abundance of choice, mundane to shoppers around him, revealed the vast chasm between communist idealism and capitalist reality...