Food Lines Are Back To Russia! 

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Do they have Bread Lines in Ukraine now?

Oh it's about the prices in grocery in Russia :)

...except in this case the "refrigerator" stories are part of the propaganda... just as they were during the Cold War. OH... don't forget North Korea is STARVING (while their population increases each year).

Yeah, I don't know where he or you live. MY fridge is not empty, we don't even SEE lines today. Well, lines OUTSIDE of stores. We have two fridges basically packed with food. Chicken, fish, other meats, bread, tea, coffee...

Yes yes yes!

My father once told me a similar story, he is from West Germany. With his high school classmates, he visited Eastern Germany and saw a huge line of people. He asked the people in line what they were standing for, and they all said "I don't know, I'm just standing here because they are, I don't dare move to ask in front because I don't want to lose my place in line" So my father went to the front and asked, they were selling straberry icecream. No, not different flavours of icecream, ONLY strawberry icecream. You wanted chocolate or vanilla? Well you're out of luck. So my father went back to the people he asked and told them "They are selling strawberry ice cream". Almost all then went away looking for another line to wait in.

I remember in the 70's ,the Russian fishing fleet used to visit my city's port(Halifax,NS,Canada). They would buy nylons and religious trinkets.

The socialist toiletpaper was terrible. Almost as rough as Erfurt Rauhfaser wallpaper. No wonder you could barter for anything.

@@gluteusmaximus1657 in Poland when we couldn’t find even that horrible TP we used communist newspapers.

Thank you. They are straight from my memories

I visited Russia in the late 70s. Teens on the street were asking for ball pens and chewing gum.

I have the same in Romania in 1979 nothing in the stores.

That is a remarkable souvenir.

Yeap

This is a video of catching seafood in the sea. Thank you for your love. Korean friends.

I had those Cubsn oranges once in my life - innRostov you ciuldn’t get them

I remember those green-peel oranges from my childhood in communist Bulgaria. They were only available around Christmas time together with bananas - same green colour. Communism is anti-humane, it should be banned all around the world in the first place.

@@INSIDERUSSIA Speaking of Cuba, stories circulated in Miami, Florida (where I grew up) of Cuban refugees -- who'd just made it across the Strait and under the aegis of the "wet foot" immigration policy (for Cuban nationals only) -- being driven by family or Cuban-Am. community activists to their neighborhood grocery stores, and who, seeing the abundance of everything for sale, would break down and cry in the aisles.

In the GDR, Cuban oranges were called “straw oranges”.

@@MattBellzminion my wife is from Vietnam and her mother was also quite surprised at the variety and quantity of food available in the grocery stores here when they came in the mid-80s. That said, I don’t believe Vietnam had lines for food, I don’t know the difference in how communism was practiced or whether it’s the fact Vietnam is much further south etc. Of course, there were many tropical foods unavailable in the standard local grocery stores, you’d have to visit Chinatown to get most of those.

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@@INSIDERUSSIAHope you got some bacon to go with those eggs 😋

@@daveamies5031 Oh, now you've got me salivating! Smoked back bacon... yum.

​@@daveamies5031I don't know it depends on if people are Muslims or vodka-muslims.

I feel sorry for the small fraction of Russians who want real change. I imagine many of them are in prison. As for the rest of them, they are simply not very bright. Do they really think this barbaric war against Ukraine is bringing them any benefits at all? I have to believe the grapevine has informed anyone who wants to know reality that thousands of men are dead, wounded, or suffering from PTSD and many of them will never come home. Yet they seem to continue to think Putin is a great leader, just the way Stalin was. A delusional country.

Very well put! The absolute truth you speak of Russia

​@@SpatchcockRat Now I wanted something not intrusive. I poured De Cecco Classico olive oil into the pan, chopped celery root, onion, cooked cauliflower(boil a little, but should be firm. do not cook for too long) until crisp, and added boiled chickpeas. and fried it all over low heat. I made toast from rye bread from a bakery similar to Borodino bread, but with a different taste. rubbed it with black garlic to give it a little marmalade taste. it was delicious, try it. I have a fresh strawberry coming up. and Milan Xiang Dan Cong tea. With greetings from a small Siberian town to you, who also suffers in our Russia from hunger and deprivation of all kinds :))

@@SpatchcockRat Just bc Moscow has it good, doesn't change the fact that the rest of russia is not in such good condition.

@@SpatchcockRat nothing I said has changed. In Europe prices didn't increase by much (in comparison to salary), and russians are still paying one of the highest % of salary to buy food in continental europe. For gas and electricity, yeah, prices are higher than in 2021, tho spike was in 2022 + beginning of 2023, now prices are not that bad. Are they bigger? Yes. Is this something you can't afford to pay working average wage? No. I've barely noticed any changes in prices reflecting on my monthly expenses, and I earn slightly above average while living in mid sized city (about 100k). And why are you surprised that there was no spike in russia, they are literally the ones who extract it, also sanctions apply to the transport of russian gas to Europe, I don't see why it would change prices in russia. If anything will impact prices in russia it's lack of food imports from Europe. But European sanctions mainly revolve around oligarchs and bans on the import and export of everything that may serve the russian war in Ukraine (arms and their parts, dual-use goods, limited trade and transport within Europe, flights, ships, luxury goods, gold, oil, iron and steel, etc.). You can find it here: www.sanctionsmap.eu/#/main Seriously, you could just say that you have no idea how sanctions work and what they were imposed on. What Europe needs now is stabilization, after signing new contracts, prices should fall within the next few years. Ah yes, the US debt argument, you show how you don't even know how it works. Overall nominal number doesn't really matter (whether the debt is 10 trillion, or 20 trillion, 40 trillion etc.). The main issue is whether or not investor confidence in US debt drops, in which case interest rates rise. Japan, for example, has way more debt-to-GDP than the US, and they have no problem borrowing at low rates. US can borrow cheaply, because people trust US debt. In fact, it's a major cornerstone of the global economy. As long as the US is able to pay the interest on the debt and people are willing to buy new debt as it is issued, it's not a problem. Also Chinese debt-to-GDP is bigger than US, but I don't see you worrying about China. But what's more worrying is that Chinese private debt (corporations and households) is much higher than in US.

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@@INSIDERUSSIA He's right, you know. My favorite restaurant's prices went up about thirty cents!

Brilliant!

dude, how is that even possible? I thought you all froze to death last winter!

Mr Sheduur we all clubbed together to buy two boy scouts and when it gets cold we just rub them together for heat lol

Oh yes

Prices were strange. One price for plain coffe, another for coffe with sugar but no cream, a third for coffe with cream but no sugar and a fourth for a coffee with sugar and cream

I think you mean 'liberate' those oppressed eggs from the Uzbekistan regime. :)

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Special culinary operation

@@spoonunit03 you forgot nazi, nazi Uzbekistan regime ;)

Oh yes I remember too

Да поляки всегда годные едят очень много и Евросоюз не может их прокормить.

@@INSIDERUSSIA I remember a story about the people having a small plot of land each to grow some food, which was much more productive than the state farms. Was that from the Soviet Union?

You could buy polish food in great numbers in the 1970'th and 1980'th here in former West Germany in the supermarkets.

No child obesity in those days 😊

Goods had worse, longer lines than food. I remeber TP lines too

@@INSIDERUSSIA consider this, Russians were considered wealthy compared to us in Poland , imagine the culture shock I experienced when we managed to flee to Denmark in the 80s just before the fall of Berlin wall, I never in my life seen so much food and stuff in stores😊 any way, thanks for what you do I have been following your journey since when you were still in Russia going around shopping malls , it's easy to see all Russians as Z zombies, you prove is wrong

But Thankfully! There's Power in the Blood of Jesus Christ 💪

@@markwilliams5606 There really isn't. Religion is part of the problem, not the solution to it.

I’m trying to mix in shorter videos. Thank you!

RUSSIA is not the only country going back in time and are we heading for for WORLD WAR❓❓🙏

@@victorbeauvoisI don’t know where yo live, but what modern country has food lines now due to shortage?

@@Hiznogood we have to have food banks as people here can't afford to pay for food 🇬🇧 here in ENGLAND

@@victorbeauvois As _SOME_ people... What you have written gives the impression that ALL people can't afford to pay for food.

Hell yeah!

Feel proud, we hope you all looked after your mother.

What an interesting destiny of life!

To get started in a career now, you have to check the right boxes, and if someone has more checkboxes, they'll get the job.

How to be the ruler of the universe and to avoid psychiatric ward

The brainwashing in Russia is amazing. Bear in mind, the majority of Russians are not particularly tech savvy, don't use the internet and can't speak any other language (or read it). So they are in effect isolated from international information.

I was lucky to get out young

@INSIDERUSSIA Honestly, I think this point of view should get more attention. For us in the west it is so hard to understand why people in Russia do as they do, and comments like this explain this so well. It explains so much.

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Ha! I was singing that to Truffle, one of my dogs. She turned away and stared out the window.

Never again for me either

The toilet paper thing reminds me of the pandemic. I'm moving next year, the new flat will get a japanese toilet. So no need for toilet paper anymore :)

This is a video of catching seafood in the sea. Thank you for your love. Korean friends.

We did that too! Froze it

No shortage of food in Sweden but I remember how happy my late mother was when she found discounted really good cheese. Today would have been her birthday

It's the way they run the economy. Holodomor didn't happen out of nowhere. China also starved millions of people. And all those leftists in the West still think socialism is a good thing.

I don’t recall exactly why the outcome is terrible levels of food production, but it has to do with attempting to centrally plan everything and I believe producing only to quotas because it was the central planners that actually paid the producers. It’s more effective to allow many small autonomous units / producers to determine for themselves what commodity to produce and sell to the market. One anecdote to relate, a Soviet factory manufacturing sunglasses produced a run of them (can’t remember the quantity) that the plastic in the lenses was so dark it couldn’t be seen through, but they met the quota so were rewarded for the effort. Obviously this is a perverse incentive, simply producing a worthless piece of junk that will immediately go to the trash still results in being paid. Likewise, a farmer producing 500 bushels is paid nearly the same as one who produces 1000 is a disincentive to work hard. Earning according to what you produce will reward the most efficient and hardest working organizations, whether it’s an organization of 1 or ten thousand.

Chickens needs to eat too. Where does the chook food come from? Our's is made out of soya meal as well as wheat and other products like maize. Rainforests have been cleared in Brazil just to grow soya beans. To feed us and livestock after the oil has been extracted...

@@fredfred2363 you will have to take my word for this but one of the things I can tell you for my youth is that chickens will eat anything. If you turn one loosen in your yard it'll give you one egg a day eating little more than the bugs and grubs it eats in your lawn. It's somewhat better especially if you intend to sell the eggs to use some sort of grain because it's a much more reliable food source however chickens are omnivorous and can make a good living just eating the bugs that it finds out in your yard

I used to buy lots of Romanian ham and used a lot of it to make omelettes. There was plenty of it in Sweden. Then I realised Romanian people only got pig feet if they were lucky. They were known as ”patriots” someone told me. I felt quite quilty. Not fun knowing how hard it was for you.

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@INSIDERUSSIA I'm still around. I'm just silent listening 😂 Merry Christmas, K. hope you have a blessed holiday.

Well, the basic difference between food lines in market economies and planned economies ist that you'll find food lines (or similar) only during hard shortages, which cannot be fixed by the market actors. And if some products really become hard to find, that situation will only last for a very few days, and then somehow it will be fixed by the shop owners (or the big companies).

I remember the first three months of 1940 after the German invasion, I was 9, and the four of us went and stood in line whenever we saw one. Mostly in vain. It was horrible never to know whether there would be anything left when we arrived at the door. At home there would be almost nothing on the table. It only started to go a little better when we were allotted food stamps. Until the end of the war we had to live on very small quantities of nourishing food, but our parents did all they could to keep us in good health by growing vegetables and fruit and having a rabbit in the kitchen and catching one or another flying unknown animal. I can assure you no one had any problem with their liver.

the common root of nostalgia

@@dont-want-no-wrench Yes. People universally remember "simpler times" when they were children.

Covid restrictions are only for protests

@@INSIDERUSSIA pathetic, they are gonna use this excuse until 2050...

Selling directly from the truck, in the neighborhoods, in such quantities, seems to avoid the tax, not covid. Habits from the jungle of the 90s.

They had even a romantic movie, called "train station for two". If I recall well, it was about melons.😅

Poland was first to fight communism in the world so it's not surprising, the fact it was russian idea, and russians are exporters of bad ideas to poland, seems obvious why poles didn't liks the whole idea in the first place. If you want to ruin your country, just have it embrace socialism, it usually works.

He explaines it yesterday in a live stream i was multitasking so missed a bit but I think it's because they flooded the markets with chickens to lower the orices...apparently not realizing that checken lay egss

A video on yhat coming up

I googled 'egg shortage Russia' and according to several news sites, these people were queuing up, because eggs were particularly cheap at some agricultural fair. Not because eggs are scarce, per se. They're just really expensive now (that is true), because feed and veterinary products have increased a lot in price, due to sanctions. So according to them, unfortunately, we're not talking about actual shortages, even if it looks like that in the footage, a video that has apparently gone quite viral. I have no way of 'fact checking' this further, obviously, so take this with a grain of salt.

@@juliec5309Thanks - In the US the "fryer" market is a separate market from the egg laying. Chickens are bred for different purposes. It only takes about 6 weeks to raise a fryer. They say you get free hormones, antibiotics and stuff in the meat when you buy them

The current supermarket "strain" of broiler chicken (to eat) is called the Ross-Cob 708. Hatch to slaughter in 5 weeks. Excellent food conversion efficiency (chicken grain to meat). They don't lay and die if left to mature to adults. Every bird is a hybrid. For layers, you have various breeds depending egg colour desired. They all lay around 320 eggs a year. White, Brown, Turquoise, Red and Yellow shelled eggs.

Russel lives in Moscow where situation is different. He knows what’s going on

@@INSIDERUSSIAI doubt Moscow has food lines like this or at least not yet. I want to like Russell as he seems like a nice guy and I doubt you would be friends with a Kremlin propagandist from the West but it seems he makes a lot of videos catering to pro Putin Russians and vatniks in the West. Dima and Ivan have also gone that direction too with their channels. I realize they may just be trying to provide content that aligns with the views of their followers.

Peoples do not socialize in a country where political police can rush in your house 24/7 and spies can be anyone.

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yeah someone is gonna stand in a fuckin snow line for hours to get a small discount on a god damn package of eggs. that tells you something about the situation. In a properly functioning democracy your time is worth money and this kind of situation just won't develop, because its a net loss. Got nothing better to do then stand in the dark on a cold ass snowy line to save some menial amount of money on eggs? please. Supermarket eggs would need to be 15 dollars each for this to happen in a normal country. As if, we also know that basically Russians associate cold with susceptibility to disease, meaning a good portion of those people have it in the back of their mind that being out in the cold is going to make them sick, only making this viable if the price of eggs in the store is totally ludicrous. Basically this means their up shit creek.

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Natasha already did. We buy there every week )

In Sweden, there’s one shop meant for those that are poor where you can get cheap food near end of shelf life. You have to prove you’re poor before you can shop. I can’t for sure

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Its very strange but I have to agree.

I remember seeing some pictures of gdr stores. I tell you, I wouldn’t even have been able to tell these were stores. Very different in Sweden

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lol yes it’s healthy 😂

not for too long its not. IMO 30 min of standing in the cold is more then enough to get medically suspicious, its not like their hiking. If they were side stepping the line back and forth to get some blood moving it would be alot better. There is lots of interesting research right now with cardiology showing that snow shoveling is very bad for your heart also, if you have any predisposition or heart related disease. Statistically it looks like mad people die after moderate snow shoveling. careful with exercise in the cold (particularly non ergonomic exercise) ... some of this is general cold, some of it is dehydration, cold air strain and the irregular pressure on the bottom of the heart from lifting shovels @@INSIDERUSSIA

So is Shakespeare. Foul is fair and fair is foul, hover through the fog and filthy air. Macbeth

@@TheFrewah An apt comparator indeed. If you're interested and haven't seen it, there is a wonderful production of this play by Patrick Stewart which is set in what looks like early Soviet Russia. It feels like watching an unfolding train crash ....

@@bluefarie10 Thank you. I saw a production on Swedish TV which I think was Russian. It was good and they showed another classic, The Karamazov Brothers with actress Mariya Shalayeva which also was very nice. I’ll see if I can find it on dvd. I don’t subscribe to film channel, I prefer to buy films I think I will like. As a teenager, I never thought I would like Shakespeare but ever since I saw Hamlet, I love these plays.

@@bluefarie10 It may be more apt than either one of us thought. I recently watched a video by Konstantin from ”Inside Russia” where he mentioned that Putin has signed a law that makes investigative journalism a crime. If you find that some official person is pocketing money from the government and then publish it somewher, then you have committed a felony. The person examined may get away.

@@TheFrewah Actually, that does sound like a sub-plot from something Dostoyevsky (or possibly Gogol) came up with - definitely in the same vein as the Grand Inquisitor's monologue in the Brothers Karamazov! Thank you for telling me more about the Macbeth production - I will see if I can find it. If you're interested, there's a brilliant essay by Thomas de Quincey on Macbeth and the perception of horror. Are you from Sweden? Your English is extremely good.

I picked the biggest ones. I pretended I was in Texas )

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@rover I enjoyed your comment(: And yes, I agree, to NEVER WASTE FOOD!! My father grew up in Germany in a refugee camp and went to bed hungry often. That left a huge impression on him (and me!) and food should NEVER be wasted. I just today cleaned out my veggie drawer and made a stir-fry with all the neglected veggies and odds and ends so nothing is ever wasted. We take a lot for granted, don’t we? Thx for sharing(:

Government started regulating prices

There is avian flu in Russia, many birds have died + feed prices have risen. eggs have increased in price by about 30%. it happened about 2 weeks ago, so it's a temporary phenomenon.