Origins of bread queues of communism

Dominik Franěk
2 min readDec 7, 2019

It goes about like this.

The (working class) people: “The bread is expensive, them baker exploiters are overpricing it!”

The (communist party) government: “No worries, we are working on it.”

Government: Sends couple bakers to uranium mines and sets official bread price mandatory for everybody to 5x cheaper than before.

People: “Yay! Serves them well. Now we can have the cheap bread we are entitled to.”

Bakers: “Da fuk. It’s impossible to make bread this cheap. We can’t bake it out of thin air. We have to pay the workers, pay for the flour and feed our families.”

Government: “Stop being selfish, help your fellow comrades in need.”

Bakers: “Right. Fuck that, let’s make bread rolls.”

People: “Oy, secret police, them bakers ain’t making our bread!”

Government: Sends more bakers to uranium mines and fixes the prices for all food. “You better have bread next time.“

Bakers: “What can we do, what can we do.” Bake bread as before, but offer just the minimum number they must at the government price and sell the rest under the counter — black market style.

People: Standing in line from 4am to get the low supply cheap bread. “Finally we have our bread, bless the communist party!”

Bakers: “Wait a minute! Millers! How come you are not doing your part in the plan for better tomorrows? We demand the flour be 5x cheaper too!”

Millers: “Fuck.”

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Dominik Franěk

I am a strategist who loves nature, technologies, and pursuing the truth. http://dominikfranek.com