Bernie Sanders compares the US and the USSR by GDN US audio published on 2015-06-18T20:42:19Z In this rare audio from 1988 unearthed by the Guardian, then-Burlington mayor Bernie Sanders interviews the mayor of Yaroslavi, on a boat somewhere on the Yolga River. After receiving a Soviet-style rundown of central planning, Sanders notes how the quality of both housing and healthcare in America appeared to be "significantly better" than in the communist state. Genre guardian