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Kathianne
08-06-2015, 09:23 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/russian-food-crematoria-provoke-outrage-amid-crisis-famine-121512184.html


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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian government plans for mass destruction of banned Western food imports have provoked outrage in a country where poverty rates are soaring and memories remain of famine during Soviet times.


Even some Kremlin allies are expressing shock at the idea of "food crematoria" while one orthodox priest has denounced the campaign, which officially began on Thursday, as insane and sinful. However, the authorities are determined to press on with destroying illegal imports they consider "a security threat".


Russian TV showed a small mountain of illegally imported European cheese being bulldozed on Thursday while even before the official start, zealous workers threw boxes of European bacon into an incinerator.


Moscow banned many Western food imports last year in retaliation for sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union and other of their allies during the confrontation over Ukraine. But now many Russians say the government has lost sight of the everyday struggles faced by ordinary citizens.

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Control food, control people...
NightTrain
08-06-2015, 09:33 AM
Seems pretty draconian to be destroying food when there's hungry people that need it, even if it is black market.

I get that he's trying to clamp down on illegal imports, but why not seize it and give it away instead of destroying it?
Kathianne
08-06-2015, 09:37 AM
Seems pretty draconian to be destroying food when there's hungry people that need it, even if it is black market.

I get that he's trying to clamp down on illegal imports, but why not seize it and give it away instead of destroying it?

Could be prelude to destroying crops in say, the Ukraine?
NightTrain
08-06-2015, 09:40 AM
Could be prelude to destroying crops in say, the Ukraine?

Could be. Pretty ruthless, no matter what his endgame is.
Drummond
08-06-2015, 10:26 AM
Could be. Pretty ruthless, no matter what his endgame is.

Very Stalin-esque, to be sure.

Or just DISGUSTING, to put it another way.

I wonder if we can, or will, get a defence of this from Balu, our resident Russian and unapologetic Putin-defender ? Or, if he'll just dismiss it as 'Western propaganda' .. ?

Still, the psychology of this is typically hardline Socialist .. that of insisting that people see the State, and only the State, as their source of 'all things good' in their lives. Putin's anti-Western propagandist stance will drive him to any extremes to discredit any associations of helpfulness from any power acting as a rival to his own authority.

'Sieg Heil' ....
Balu
08-06-2015, 10:56 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/russian-food-crematoria-provoke-outrage-amid-crisis-famine-121512184.html

Control food, control people...

Control of contraband only.

Contraband - goods imported or exported illegally, either in defiance of a total ban or without payment of duty.
Drummond
08-06-2015, 11:19 AM
Control of contraband only.

Contraband - goods imported or exported illegally, either in defiance of a total ban or without payment of duty.


Well, according to the article Kathianne supplied, your people consider it a - get this - 'SECURITY THREAT' ...

Perhaps there are terrorists disguised as bananas hiding out amongst all of it ?

I gather from the article that some important, influential figures, have denounced all this. Of course, Putin remains disinterested in anything or anyone choosing to have the temerity to defy his wishes. It goes with the neo-Commie mindset, which says that power is everything.

As I said, very Stalin-esque. And, of course, DISGUSTING.
Balu
08-06-2015, 11:25 AM
Well, according to the article Kathianne supplied, your people consider it a - get this - 'SECURITY THREAT' ...

Perhaps there are terrorists disguised as bananas hiding out amongst all of it ?

I gather from the article that some important, influential figures, have denounced all this. Of course, Putin remains disinterested in anything or anyone choosing to have the temerity to defy his wishes. It goes with the neo-Commie mindset, which says that power is everything.

As I said, very Stalin-esque. And, of course, DISGUSTING.

Russia DOES NOT want ANYBODY from the West, violating OUR laws, even open a mouth, that we USED your products, but NOT destruct them, as we are doing now. We KNOW you TOO well. http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/standart/dirol.gif