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Subsidy economy from 1976 to 1986 means all (1) of goods and raw materials are in the (2) of the central government. The government coordinated all steps of economy from planning, collecting, and distributing to (3) . Each person (4) with standard distributions which depended (5) working level, age, rank and position in government or professional.
(6) essential supplies had many problems, for example, four people shared a pair of bicycle tires, or even a blanket. Sometimes one pig was shared among 20 households, everyone wanted to take the good (7) and very difficult to divide fairly. Moreover, because of bad storage and complicated delivery, many supplied foods were in bad condition, such as broken, rotten or even poisonous. Each family got (8) own rice booklet shown date and number kilos of rice. During that time, the Vietnamese had a famous saying, “Your face (9) sad like (10) the rice booklet”.
