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Old 10-18-2011, 10:30 AM
Mahatatain Mahatatain is offline
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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee View Post
You mean urban dwellers, right?
I was mainly but I think that a lot of rural dwellers (prior to the War) would have had their own vegetable gardens as well, even if they were farmers by trade, as the produce they grew would be cheaper than buying produce from elsewhere. My understanding is that (prior to the War) someone might, for example, run a dairy farm but also have their own vegetable garden to save money. I’m fairly sure that in the Soviet era rural dwellers ate considerably better than urban dwellers, which is the reverse of many Western countries.
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