Not only that, but Russians learned to hide their preps and keep quiet about them...

Hoarders were seen as greedy and selfish at best... Enemies of the state at worst.

My wife's family is "German from Russia"... I've read letters from family that stayed... Soviets would take everything, then return and even take the seed... The arrest them when the "refused to plant a crop" (for which they had no seed)... Anyone caught sharing food with them was arrested for aiding enemies of the state...

A lot of them are listed "disappeared to Siberia 1925" in the family album.

"Government at its best is a necessary evil, and at it�s worst, an intolerable one."
 Thomas Paine (from "Common Sense" 1776)