Maybe so?

There were also some amusing satirical stories parodying the Cold War in various ways. Scrooge ran afoul of the Brutopians a few times. Brutopia was a country clearly intended to resemble the most hardline and vicious form of Stalinism. The Brutopian ambassador was a particularly nasty customer, always going on about "the happy people" back home, and how he was doing everything on their behalf....(ha, ha) He usually got in squabbles with Scrooge because they were both on the trail of some incredibly valuable article that could change the balance of power in the world.

Seems to me that one such article was a mysterious new element or compound with unknown possibilities. When they finally tracked it down, the Brutopian ambassador was infuriated to learn that rather than being the key to a new superweapon...or something else useful like that...it simply allowed the synthesizing of unlimited amounts of ice cream in every flavor known to man!

He was outraged. Why? Because "In Brutopia the happy people do not EAT ice cream!!!"