Following Stalin's death, things started lightening up in the USSR, relatively speaking, meaning the price for talking politics fell dramatically. An old couple who lived in an apartment in Moscow decided to replenish their dwindling supply of food, so the lady of the house sends her husband down to state shop to buy some meat for supper.
After queuing for the obligatory three hours, the old man gets to the counter and presents his list.
"No more meat,; we ran out of meat," the lady at the counter told him.
The old man cracks and starts raving, "I fought in the Revolution, I fought for Lenin in the First World War and for Stalin in the Second World War, and we are still in this shit?"
One of the leather-jacketed brigades keeping an eye on things takes him on one side and tells him in a gentle voice, "Look, old man; you know you can't talk like this. Just think, a few years ago you would have been shot for saying these things."
Subdued, the old man trudges home.
His wife sees that he has returned empty-handed and remarks light-heartedly, "Ran out of meat again, have they?"
"It's worse than that, they've run out of bullets." He says.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando is the author of THE UNION MOUJIK
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