Nor 15 or so other Clear Lakes in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Lake#United_States_2

The one seen in the video is a fancy store. There were far worse ones that had literally nothing for sale, just empty shelves, with employees sitting on their asses all day long, staring blankly out the window and waiting for their shift to end. Even if you were the Soviet equivalent of an Apple engineer, you still needed a small patch of land somewhere to grow vegetables and barter with others, otherwise you'd starve. An insane level of poverty by Western standards.

It's arguable that the US Thanksgiving tradition is itself a starvation myth, given that the 1629-21 winter killed off half the Plymouth pilgrims.

From Wikipedia...

>Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to catch eel and grow corn and served as an interpreter for them until he too succumbed to disease a year later. The Wampanoag leader Massasoit also gave food to the colonists when supplies brought from England proved insufficient. Having brought in a good harvest, the Pilgrims celebrated at Plymouth for three days in the autumn of 1621.

Another episode: Out of the 500 settlers at the Jamestown outpost, roughly 440 (88%) starved to death through the winter of 1609, and survivors had to resort to eating rats, mice, snakes, dogs, shoe leather, and belts, and even some cannibalism.

And that's before you get to the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era that gave us The Grapes of Wrath, migrant agricultural workers eating boiled weeds or flour mixed with lard, Hoover Stew, etc.

Not quite on the scale of Ukraine's Holodomor or Ireland's Great Famine, but it's interesting how the narrative around Thanksgiving has developed over time.