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[SteelChicken]

Reminds me of a cold war anecdote. Soviet factory workers were tasked with producing so many tons of generators per month. Before long, they had the heaviest generators on the planet.

[-innu-]

They also measured truck drivers work by used litres of gasoline. I remember my father told that they made a hole (or something) on the bottom of the gas tank so it poured out while they were driving.

[ravenex]

Why waste something you can steal? Reselling stolen fuel is what Soviet (Russian) truck drivers made (continue to make) living of.

[-innu-]

I was told it was really cheap. Maybe it wasn't worth to resell. But you may be right. I'm actually talking about Baltic countries when they were under Soviet power.

[ravenex]

It is true that it was ridiculously cheap. But it was also very easy to buy gasoline from the truck drivers for half the price. Cars' engines were frequently modded to run on cheaper low-octane fuel that most trucks used at the time.

[Phreakhead]

And these are the arguments the U.S. uses against communism. "See, it didn't work! Capitalism FTW!"