alt Hacker News"But in some corners of Hanoi, government officials still have exclusive access to special shops selling goods at subsidized rates. "
Surely in a communist government access would be equal to all? Why would there be elites?
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Muromec • yesterday at 7:16 PM
Believe it or not, but there were different quality grades of commieblocks. You can guess who got the ones from the first, more quality batch.
Mainan_Tagonist • yesterday at 6:24 PM
it's because it's not real communism.
You'll be really shocked to discover that in the Soviet Union, people also got different pay and company benefits and different retirement ages for doing different work.