Word: cataclysm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deprivation, more meat is one of their basic demands, and one of the major promises that their leaders have made to them. It symbolizes, in a way, the success or failure of the system. A slight decline in Moscow's ability to feed its people will not be a cataclysm, but it will be felt by Soviet citizens...