Assertion: bloc's leader | /r/CapableOf | try to use promises of consumer goods
Facets:
value: increasingly
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: This resentment grew stronger during the 1970s and 80s, when Communist leaders increasingly tried to use promises of consumer goods as a way of purchasing legitimacy—consumer goods that they could not deliver to hardworking men and women and their families due to the nature of Communist command economies.