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I also think it's a very poor choice of words. If Sovietization meant introducing inefficiencies and bureaucracy in the egg supply chain, this is not even remotely what the article claims is going on here: the eggs producers are very intentionally (rather than incompetently or bureaucratically) throttling the egg production because it's more profitable to produce less If the authors meant monopolization of the egg supply, well, that's also pretty far from being uniquely a Soviet phenomenon.

It was a really dumb thing to bring up and it chips away at the authors' credibility.

Edits: grammar