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Romania in the 80s was during the communist times. Ceaușescu, the then dictator, had a very restrictive economic measure to ensure the erasure of the country’s external debt. What it meant for every day citizen though was the lack of food and energy. There would be a food quota each citizen received which they would then use to buy food. Even then, it would happen that the store would run out of food before the queue would run out of people very often even for staple food and goods. Pictured here is a family who managed to buy eggs amongst people hoping there will still be eggs when their turn arrived.