Yes,in totalitarian,brutal communist USSR and China. Isn't Turkey supposed to be DIFFERENT?
Totalitarian and brutal are very subjective terms. I dont know if Turkey should be different? Thats surely up to them.
It's not just about the bread,sir. It's about the people's purchasing power,the prices,the economy. When the people are starving and they become from happy to miserable,there is frustration. The government can collapse,there can be political instability and investors will go to other countries.
When the the 1st Ukrainian army of the USSR entered Auszwitz concentration camp, they were shocked at the quality of toilets provided to the prisoners, they could only dream of such luxuries in the USSR where people literally had to do their business in the fields.
When the Russian Red Army entered Germany, it was like they came to a wonderland of the future, cities with running water, toilet seats, functioning paved roads, communal infrastructure. They literally could not believe they won the war. And when the Russians left in 1990's they took toilet seats and washing basins with them, and they let left as poor and miserable as then came in 1945. They had purchasing power that even Putin had to work as a taxi driver.
So, purchasing power, bread, democracy, human development index has absolutely nothing to do with the power of a country.