> it caused pain to the USSR
I'm not quite sure how sending a humanitarian parcel to someone stripped of basic food and medicines (due to "temporary difficulties in real socialism") could have "caused pain to the USSR" 🤔
> But they Were Not In Charge
And thank God, because if say instead of Reagan it was Bernie Sanders who was in charge - after his enthusiastic trips to USSR - I would now probably still living in communist Poland earning $20 per month.