That time an entire country ran out of coffee...

In 1975 East Germany ran out of coffee. The government's reaction had drastic consequences...

Sources:

Jeffrey Kopstein 2010. Ulbricht Embattled: The Quest for Socialist Modernity in the Light of New Sources. https://cpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/faculty.sites.uci.edu/dist/9/994/files/2021/05/ulbricht_embattled.pdf

Andre Steiner 2010. The Plans that Failed: An Economic History of East Germany, 1945-1989. https://books.google.com.au/books?id=a-UT0xv_BV8C&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Liston, R. and Sullivan, R. 1977. "Natural disasters, political turmoil reduce the world's supply of coffee" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZblPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VFIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6879%2C515801

Coffee Prices - 45 Year Historical Chart https://www.macrotrends.net/2535/coffee-prices-historical-chart-data

Quinn Slobodian 2015. Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World https://books.google.com.au/books?id=g6UHCAAAQBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s