Not even close to true. Usually what’s cited in ‘defense’ of this idea is a single-page CIA report from the mid-80s that borked its own statistical source and even then, for that matter, suggested that Soviet citizens ate less, but had a healthier diet due to less sugar and fats available.
Acshtually people in the same socio-economic demographic in the USSR were better feed that the people in the US.
This is bullshit, meat being rarely available is not one anyone would consider “better fed”.
Not mention the Holodomor in Ukraine.
Not even close to true. Usually what’s cited in ‘defense’ of this idea is a single-page CIA report from the mid-80s that borked its own statistical source and even then, for that matter, suggested that Soviet citizens ate less, but had a healthier diet due to less sugar and fats available.
Counter, women in the Soviet Union reported better sex than their American counterparts.