It's short of soap, so there are lice in hospitals. It's short of pantyhose, so women's legs go bare. It's short snowsuits, so babies stay home in winter.... The problem isn't communism; nobody even talked about communism this week. The problem is shortages.
An Inclusive Litany
2/1/92
NBC's John Chancellor analyzes the problems faced by citizens of the
crumbling Soviet Union, August 21, 1991: