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Monthly ration in Poland, early 1980s (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] pageflight@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A loaf of bread is about half a kilo of flour, that's not much for a whole month!

[โ€“] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

I wonder why it's 1.3kg. The soviet union adopted the metric system, so it seems like an odd choice. Maybe Poland had a historical measure that size.