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If you still gained a salary from work and could buy the rest of what you need this really isn't that bad
I don't think you got this for free, it was probably just the maximum you could buy of any of these items in a month. That's how war time rationing worked in the UK.
This was the USSR. They didn't pay for this.
Apparently you're incorrect: https://polishhistory.pl/a-ration-card-for-survival-rationing-in-communist-poland/
To buy sugar, cigarettes, shoes, petrol and many other goods they needed not only money, but also special coupons.
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