Russia's Presidential Library preserves a 1-minute-20-second oral-history fragment in which Tamara Ivanova recalls standing in a bread queue as a child in wartime Murmansk. Recorded in 2014, it survives as audio with a transcript.
The short testimony documents one person's actual presence in a line rather than only describing a rationing system. It does not establish the crowd size or duration, and neither is supplied.
What disappears from supply statistics is the fact that a child occupied a place in the family food order. The bread queue became a piece of wartime time still worth recounting decades later.
The source review records an ordered wait tied to this candidate's date and place. The article was re-edited against that direct evidence without adding unverified crowd sizes or waiting times.