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My US highschool social studies teacher claimed that restaurant waitstaff in the Soviet Union were rude, since they were assigned their jobs. How did the USSR command economy plan for the allocation of eateries around the country? And was the server stereotype true?

by /u/DrHENCHMAN in /r/AskHistorians

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