“This compound should be available from most good drugstores.” I got increasingly annoyed with this phrase because in the world I lived in, even ordinary soap was available only intermittently…………In an economy that operated by central planning, shortages of just about everything were commonplace.” the author dexcribing life in Hungary in the 1950s under Communist Russian rule

“This compound should be available from most good drugstores.” I got increasingly annoyed with this phrase because in the world I lived in, even ordinary soap was available only intermittently…………In an economy that operated by central planning, shortages of just about everything were commonplace.” the author dexcribing life in Hungary in the 1950s under Communist Russian rule (Andrew S. Grove)