• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    rationing during WW2

    Not just during but long after (well into the 1950s). People generally don’t understand that Britain literally bankrupted herself holding out against Germany, then got to watch as the former Axis powers rebounded faster than they did.