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"...An article in Pravda on the 18th October 1990 painted an alarming picture of social and economic disintegration: "The situation continues to worsen. Output is falling, economic supply links are being broken. Separatist tendencies are growing stronger. The consumer market is in a shambles. The budget deficit and the state's credit-worthiness has reached critical levels. Antisocial behaviour and crime have grown. Life is becoming more difficult, incentives to work have weakened, faith in the future is collapsing. The economy is in a highly dangerous condition."

Shortages of food and other goods were endemic. The discontent of the population was fuelled by the realisation that these shortages were artificial--the result of bungling and sabotage. Vodka stolen from the shops was being sold on the black market at inflated prices. There were no cigarettes in the shops but plenty in the factories. Meat was left rotting in the warehouses. Demand was only satisfied by 66 per cent. The moment goods appeared in the shops people bought them up to hoard, thus adding to the shortages. The official press admitted that "over the past four years 13,000 separate items have disappeared from the shelves". (Soviet Weekly, 1/11/90.)...

"Khi CSVN sụp đổ, đó sẽ là do Kinh tế mà ra" - Bác sĩ Nguyễn Đan Quế.