Food Lines Are Back To Russia!

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

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[@JonROlsen]

Do they have Bread Lines in Ukraine now?

[@Slick-Slack]

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

[@singamajigy]

You put it so well in yesterday’s live stream; no matter what the propaganda tells you, the refrigerator doesn’t lie.

[@SunriseLAW]

...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).

[@Plusle843]

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...

[@karenlankford8558]

My German professor used to visit friends on the East German side and would bring a suitcase full of soap, toilet paper, razor blades and deodorant which his friends could barter for anything that they wanted or bribe their way out of trouble with the Stasi. Money was largely worthless because you could not buy anything with it. People would automatically get in any line they saw because it meant that the store had something worthwhile to sell. A roll of two ply and a bar of soap however was like a couple of gold bars. You could get anything with personal hygiene products.

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

Yes yes yes!

[@texanplayer7651]

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.

[@philipnehiley6579]

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.

[@gluteusmaximus1657]

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

[@tangodaze]

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

[@SimonGardiner-bj3pq]

We visited the USSR in 1989, and YES I took a woman's place in the bread queue (so she could go to the toilet). It was an important 'souvenir' of our visit to thr USSR for us! those bread queues looked EXACTLY LIKE IN THE PHOTOS SHOWN IN THIS VID. He is neither lieing or exaggerating!

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

Thank you. They are straight from my memories

[@DS-zr8pw]

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

[@elisabethtedeschi4993]

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

[@catstealer419dominion7]

That is a remarkable souvenir.

[@HeBeDrGB]

Konstantin, it's things like this that speak louder than, "Everything is going according to plan."

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

Yeap

[@lonelyheodang]

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

[@harrydecker8731]

This was an excellent and eye-opening report, Konstantin! Well done. Please make more reports like this that are to the point, because it's difficult to listen to your podcasts that over an hour long. They're interesting and informative, but time consuming. Realize that there are hundreds of podcasts that are competing with each other.

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

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

[@victorbeauvois]

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

[@Hiznogood]

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

[@victorbeauvois]

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

[@heraklesnothercules.]

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

[@Hiznogood]

I remember a friend of mine who had visited Moskva sometimes in the 80’s and it was a warm summer day but you couldn’t buy any ice cream, soda or even a beer. But there where a lot of street vendors selling cucumbers as they had have a big harvest of them. Tough luck if you wanted something else!

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

Oh yes

[@TheFrewah]

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

[@retkvi]

Our parents told us Soviet stories where they stood in lines for oranges from Cuba. They had a greenish color, were quite sour with big seeds, and it was almost an inhuman task to get off the peel of those oranges. Another story was about under-the-table stuffs, where there was nothing in the store, but when you knew the right person, it miraculously appeared.

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

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

[@minymoe325]

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.

[@MattBellzminion]

@@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.

[@sjsomething4936]

@@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.

[@joojoojeejee6058]

@@sjsomething4936 I'm pretty sure that the Vietnamese people didn't really buy their food from "grocery stores", but rather grew it themselves for the most part... At least in the countryside. Who knows about the cities.

[@larsost-qb2eo]

I remeber those growing up in soviet okupied poland, my mum standing in line for hours to get toilet paper, or tradig ration stamps, and the stampede when a store got meat ,

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

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

[@larsost-qb2eo]

@@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

[@shanew3293]

well, for those russians who miss the "gool old "bad" days".. here you go! Thx Konstatin- be safe

[@ruthslone2992]

I remember seeing those food lines, and feeling pity. I even considered investing in Russia, but I knew that people accustomed to bribery and widespread corruption would not understand how to do business without it. The few expat Russians that I’ve met here in the States maintain the attitude that they’ll receive “better” goods, services, or access, if they pay a bribe upfront. (It’s illegal here, and prosecuted) There is a mindset in oppressed populations that enables the rich elites to assume power, and exert control. When the lawmakers and law enforcers demand bribes before rendering justice, there is no justice. Russia had a chance to escape authoritarianism in 1990, but backslid into the dark ages rather than embrace freedom and democracy. I will never pity Russians again. It will take a genuine rebellion to force that change to occur, which is unlikely in this time period, unless the military of Russia takes a stand against the regime in Moscow. Considering the magnitude of the losses already incurred by military units, as well as the flight of the unwilling across borders, it does not appear that anyone has the inclination or ability to revolt. I cannot imagine the surety of death sentences that soldiers are receiving from their command, and carrying out suicide missions without vigorously questioning illegal orders. This entire invasion of Ukraine will not benefit anyone but the oligarchs who have already enriched themselves in Russia. Instead of looting the homes of commoners in Ukraine, the soldiers should be examining the mansions and private estates of their lords, ladies and tsar Putin.

[@peternolan4107]

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.

[@garybeaver5951]

Very well put! The absolute truth you speak of Russia

[@wff3202]

​@@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 :))

[@Dread_2137]

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

[@Dread_2137]

@@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.

[@MrBadBean]

Going Back to the USSR if the people want it or not, Putin and his cronies will see to that.

[@PSYACTIF]

USSR sounds like madness for you but some people love it when they don't have the burdain of using the brain all the time and solving all life's problems for themselves. My soviet friend's father is the most knowledgeable in his field I've seen and yet he wouldn't know how to go freelance or even think about not following someone's rules. It's easier to be an instument of the system

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

I was lucky to get out young

[@ElMoonLite]

@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.

[@irminschembri8263]

I only know food lines from pictures of those in the GDR, the staunch supporter of the USSR, before our re-unification. Strangely enough there are quite a few of my "brothers and sisters"who want those " good old days " back as well. Honestly? Sometimes I think they can have their Wall back if they so wish ! :))

[@rudolfmohrmann2112]

Breakfast club gets even tastier now with eggs.

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

YES )))

[@daveamies5031]

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

[@heraklesnothercules.]

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

[@karilang9377]

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

[@AmatureAstronomer]

At least they don't have to east squirrels, like folks in Europe do. I was watching Channel 1420 today and in a new video person after person kept confidently proclaiming the Russia is the richest country in the world. Huh?

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

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

[@fredfred2363]

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.

[@featheredskeptic1301]

I've never seen a person so happy that he managed to buy eggs. This just cracks me up.🥚🍳😂These last few years make it seem like we all live in a mad house. Some type of a Baron Munchausen universe where the rules of logic simply need not apply, and the center of this mad house universe is non other than Russia.

[@markwilliams5606]

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

[@featheredskeptic1301]

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

[@sepponiemi1690]

I'm one of those few who has seeing this madness alive in Russia! End of eighteens I had opportunity to work in Russia as consulting manufacturing manager. I couldn't buy any food to eat so I haft to bring all the food to Russia with me to last least two weeks. Even the water and toilet paper. There were no bread to buy at local stores or anything else that i need to kill my hunger! . It was chock to see people starving. Besides they have some kind of food stamps for various items that they could use to buy in limited quantities. but mostly shelves was empty! The workers went to work without pay so factory giftet them food in cans instead in salary because the didn't had any money to pay! I used to go their food cantine to eat but all they could offer me was watery soup with some vegetables in it. This Is what Russian calls Good old times!

[@macfun4100]

I know this from my childhood in Poland (1972-1982) We had a limit for all basic foodstuffs (flour, sugar, milk ...). Food was only available for vouchers. Only one bar of chocolate per month for the children. I remember a boy on TV complaining that the chocolate had 28 pieces, so not even one piece a day ...

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

Oh yes I remember too

[@АлександрМолчюн]

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

[@surters]

@@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?

[@Anonymos321]

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

[@tomasnozka1]

No child obesity in those days 😊

[@-hl4xh]

Here in the rotting west my wife after a night on the street went and bought 36 eggs for £3.00p so i could have Yorkshire pudding with my Squirrel, afterwards we had trifle with fresh cream, it was great my gay friends and family absolutely loved it lol

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

😂😂😂

[@JordanDCGehl]

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

[@fredfred2363]

Brilliant!

[@MrSheduur]

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

[@-hl4xh]

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

[@narellecruickshank6919]

Was that last sentence referring to The Beatles' song "Back in the USSR". I was 14 yrs old when that song came out. From Australia 🇦🇺

[@jerrysartain2539]

Thanks "k" very interesting...eggceptional ! Lol

[@toomasargel8503]

In Ussr is simply weekend 2-3 hours waitiing in food storge lane . Yes not me alon but brother, ma ,dad , Each one take money and get differend food storage to line and hope products of food no ended before line get for Your ask food buy. Simply every wek end saturday " traditsion " was that because on saturday brinf´g food for cargo trucks to storage other day after school or after job are usual food storage EMPTY. !! Yes was some weath bread ,milk , maxarons and wheath powder but was all. That years was 1977 - 1990 . "Great times and memories2 Toomas at Estonia born 1970.

[@bsteven885]

Thank you, Konstantin, for showing the world what madness possesses some people to desire the return of the USSR. Also, thank you for sharing your own experience of the lines back in the 1980s. Hopefully, this can break through people's deceptions so Russians can demand something resembling democracy.

[@lonelyheodang]

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

[@macfun4100]

I can still remember (1980) how proud my father was when he managed to "organize" half a pig. And we shared it with the neighbors. And when they "organized" something, they shared it with us The most important thing was to have a large freezer ....

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

We did that too! Froze it

[@TheFrewah]

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

[@debbiebonitz9041]

I grew up in poverty but didn't realize it the time. My mother moved 4 kids from ages of 8 to 17 yrs to California from Texas. My brother worked for Arnold Schwarzenegger as lawyer while he was governor, my youngest sister became head of budgets in a large company, my middle sister went into mortgages and became a millionaire, and I, the black sheep of the family became a top sales rep for a Texaco company. That's what living in a democracy is all about.

[@robertginsburg8113]

Hell yeah!

[@willbee6785]

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

[@TheFrewah]

What an interesting destiny of life!

[@deadcatbounce3124]

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.

[@soothinggentlesounds]

My grandmother's relatives were caught behind the Iron Curtain. They managed 1 visit to the US in the late 1970's and I'll never forget the look of wonder at a US grocery store. They also were amazed at our (to us ordinary) homes and green yards with trees. They took back lots of "luxuries" in their suitcases. Thankfully the Wall fell but the scenes you're showing seem like it's making a return.

[@tomhoornstra1379]

The Netherlands has got a lot of food lines; they are called: voedselbanken. In English: Food Banks.

[@ronmullard5718]

HERE IN THE IMPOVERISHED UK ...WE HAVE NO PROBLEMS WITH ANYTHING AND I FOR ONE WOULDN'T WANT RETURN TO MY EARLY CHILDHOOD WHERE RATIONING WAS STILL IN FORCE AFTER WW2....IF THAT'S WHAT RUSSIAN CITIZENS WANT....THEY ARE WELCOME TO IT....

[@RandomDudeOne]

In the Soviet days people would wait in line to buy toilet paper. The country with the most trees in the world couldn't even provide enough TP for its people.

[@DS-zr8pw]

For heaven's sake. Now that you showed the eggs in Taschkent market, Russia may annex Usbekistan.

[@spoonunit03]

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

[@heraklesnothercules.]

@@spoonunit03 😆

[@psikogeek]

Special culinary operation

[@Dread_2137]

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

[@kingcrazymani4133]

I remember those lines from 1980. Ouch. Next thing to look for will be «на ремонт» signs on every other store - and apparently apartment buildings. I once had a collection of НА РЕМОНТ photos from all kinds of places. Thanks for this, Constantine.

[@lissamullen3331]

I remember my grandmother and father talking about them when she lived there. 😢

[@pamelajaye]

Thank you for this. I didn't know the lines were back until you mentioned it yesterday.

[@dannolives]

More great stuff from konstantin I have to admit one of the things that I never really understood about Russia and the USSR is the apparent lack of agricultural products. Russia is a massive place and I know a lot of it may not be the greatest agricultural land in the world just because it's covered in mountain or in some cases massive forests. But Even if the land may not always be perfect for farming, it's pretty easy to raise a chicken. In the US it's not become a sort of hobby people raising chickens in their backyard, And of course collecting eggs is a nice bonus.

[@svr5423]

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.

[@sjsomething4936]

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.

[@fredfred2363]

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...

[@dannolives]

@@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

[@cactushound]

These people should learn that it's not good to live in the past. What's the wise saying?..... "Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it". This quote is from Aesop's Fables.

[@99solutionsit10]

Indeed. USSR was also in forever state of war. Putin and RF Duma just made all the arrangements to return to that too. We may conclude that the "worst disaster of 20th century" is about to be undone. 😂

[@michaellgorlinski8874]

I remember those days in Poland when I was a little boy 🙁

[@tangodaze]

Oh, that’s my childhood in communist Poland 🇵🇱! Standing in lines for hours, for everything! And hunting for toilet paper 🧻!!! Never again 🚫⛔️❌🛑

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

Never again for me either

[@svr5423]

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 :)

[@giannifan1780]

Ow! How well I know these things! I've lived that kind of times in my country, Romania!!! Staying in line for EVERYTHING!!! I don't even want to remember those old times!!!

[@TheFrewah]

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.

[@bigdaddyrat7854]

In the West, in WW2 we turned away from food lines and turned towards rationing and ration cards as a much fairer way to ensure that everyone got. But I do remember hearing stories of shortages of baby formula in Moscow just prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

[@HermSezPlayToWin]

“Back in the USSR. You don’t know how lucky you are.” 🎶

[@kear8225]

😂😂😂

[@Renee60722]

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

[@allisonmarlow184]

When you said 'lines,' I was imagining long lines -- but nothing like this!! This is nuts!!

[@UsernamedJory]

🎶 Back in the RSSR… comes to mind. 🙏🏼 for the earwig 😂

[@pfefferle74]

And once food lines start, food black markets are just around the corner.

[@AnneMarieBibby1966]

I remember in 1979 waiting in gas lines. We had a 5 gallon limit. I also remember lines and empty shelves in the blizzard of 78. I have become a pro at making my own breads. Im prepped up on flour to whole wheat berries and hand grinders, and ways to cook it without electricity. I truly believe with these uncertain times we need to go back in time. 😊

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

❤️

[@AnneMarieBibby1966]

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

[@danielrodding8522]

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).

[@rose-marietrembloy243]

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.

[@Ajgormy]

I remember a story from our communist past. A tourist from the west saw huge line in front of food store. He asked his local friends, why were the people waiting in the line? Friends told him, that they were waiting for bananas. Western tourist still did not quite understood it and by shaking his head he asked, why dont these people just rather buy the bananas, instead of standing here in the line for them. So that was great planning and logistics in the communist Europe. Greetings from Slovakia

[@johncheresna]

Be careful what you wish for! They must be so happy.

[@ant-space]

Great reporting on a sad situation. Thanks Konstantin!

[@clairenollet2389]

My niece studied in Moscow during her Junior year college in the early 1980s. She stuffed a second suitcase full of Levi jeans, music cassettes, and other decadent Western items (she asked her Russian professor at college, who told her what would be most lucrative). She bartered it all away, and came home with some really lovely works of art, worth far more than what the clothing and music had cost her. About a year ago, we had a big avian flu outbreak here in the USA. Tens of millions of chickens had to be slaughtered, eggs got scarce, and the price skyrocketed. A lot of groceries had a "2 dozen eggs" limit on how many you could buy, but no one stopped you if you wanted to go to every grocery in the area, and buy 2 cartons of eggs at each place. There were certainly no lines, even if a few shelves were a little bare. The price has now plummeted, now that the flu outbreak has been contained and the flocks have recovered their numbers. If folks here in the USA were angry at our government last year for high egg prices, I imagine they would be mutinous if there were no eggs at all to buy. I will never understand how the Russian people seem to have this endless capacity to absorb abuse. I guess I'm just spoiled.

[@foxitt2266]

They want back Soviet Empire. Food lines were just minor inconvenience. But this feeling you re a citizen of an Empire, a Superpower.

[@edmarth1899]

I was in Russia in 1982. It was winter and freezing cold. People were lined up all day to buy shoes. In a small supermarket it was 90% empty, with only some tins of fish, and bruised apples.

[@Adam_Malcher]

Food lines? Sounds good. They will have time to debate some domestic politics while queueing.

[@Doe174]

Im so happy for you K! Make somethin good with those they look very fresh!

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

Natasha already did. We buy there every week )

[@debilei1078]

I was in the USSR in 1976. There were blocks-long lines for food trucks. One I remember was long, cabbage.

[@99solutionsit10]

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

[@RoyCousins]

Of course, some of them may want the old times back because they were young and strong then and didn't worry (like their parents did).

[@dont-want-no-wrench]

the common root of nostalgia

[@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531]

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

[@lesliefleming4359]

When I was much younger, perhaps 50 years ago we used to hear about the bread lines in the USSR. It’s been a long time. In grade school we used to have Air raid drills as well.

[@janlim0916]

Standing in foodlines in the dead freezing cold for hours is not pleasant

[@ZhovtoBlakytniy]

Nostalgic, in a bad way!

[@annhamilton8553]

I guess you could say everything is going to plan. As a result of the SMO they have gone from up market shopping centres to queuing for basic food. We have a few chooks and get anything from 8-10 eggs a day. I give them away to friends that live in town. 🙏🙏💙💛💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦👍from🇦🇺

[@jillwilliamson4825]

You reap what you sow welcome back to the ussr people. Thanks for the update k

[@jtf2dan]

Dear russia.....enjoy cold potatos and beets in the dark this winter...courtesy of Putin, who spent ALL your money on his army and his friends sitting in mansions.

[@alessioscudieri5122]

Let me guess: no covid restrictions for eggs's line right? Great job as always "K" 👍

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

Covid restrictions are only for protests

[@alessioscudieri5122]

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

[@you_can_change_alias]

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.

[@thedeergarden3964]

This could be a good indicator, but as we know the Russian government is good at boiling frogs. Most of the population seems to be willing to suffer because it’s harder for them emotionally to face taking a moral stance and to resist the government. I mean how many decades did Soviets stand in queues and struggle to keep food on the table?. The learned apathy is what I find most perplexing.

[@JUSTTERRY0]

WHEN I SEE IT LIKE THIS, IT MAKES THINGS REAL. THANKS K . YOU SHOW IT AS IT IS HAPPENING 👍

[@burney-m]

I grew up in the 70's when the bread strikes were on. My mam would send me to the "Greggs" and would stand in that queue at 8am knowing the shop would not open until 9am. Yes, this was also in the winter. The shop would only allow 1 loaf per customer. This was never enough for our family as not a small family. I would be served about 10 minutes after openining, and would then have to go to another 2 bakery and queue again. This went on for about 5 maybe 6 weeks. I also remember seeing the news with similar queues in Russia. They would also be using the dollar as a currency as the ruble was worthless back then.

[@kaltenburg2637]

My brain first read "food lines" as in... "this place has such good food, there is a line"..... it's morning and I haven't had coffee yet.

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

😂😂😂

[@justsomeguyinnc473]

Another 6 years of Putin-style progress will see the Russian people living in mud huts, farming dirt. Such magnificence and foresight! What manliness! What strength! What leadership! I suppose one could say he is Making Russia Great Again! This message brought to you by NewSpeak. It's double-plus good!

[@tjpld]

People don't want the USSR back, they want their youth back. Life was better when your back didn't hurt.

[@daniellarson3068]

What is the root cause for the egg shortage in Russia? Last year eggs became very expensive where I live due to some sort of chicken disease. It was temporary. I kind of wonder if the controlled economy failed because it just didn't work or did it fail because it just didn't care about the wants and needs of the people.

[@juliec5309]

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

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

A video on yhat coming up

[@raraavis7782]

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.

[@daniellarson3068]

@@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

[@fredfred2363]

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.

[@224Nisqually]

During the US President Ford administration, I was a US Fishery Scientist who got to go aboard Russian trawlers off the Oregon and Washington Coast. No one aboard these Soviet era ships had any previous contact with native English speakers. One of the most common questions that Russians (who were from the Russian Far East) asked me was "can you get eggs", how much do they cost, and how long are the lines?" The ships "moment" was calculated with the help of an abacus. I went back to Seattle for a weekend and returned with an armload of calculators from the Dollar Store. I barrowed my Mothers Polaroid instant color camera and lots of slick color car and truck brochures from the dealers. The Jeep brochure was very popular because they knew the brand and trusted it to survive their roads and the winter.

[@rolflin]

wait!! didnt KGB said that europe was collapsing? I am trully confused X_D

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

Me too 😂😂😂

[@felixalbion]

As a Brit I can at least have egg with my squirrel today😂😂

[@Auto438]

read the other day in russia eggs +40% inflation plus shortages to make Christmas new year dishes no yoke

[@surrealfabet]

Just like Romania in the 80's! I had to stay in queue from 5am to get 1 L of milk. Grocery stores were literaly empty. If you didn't have relatives or friends in country side, you would starve. We were lucky that my grandfather had pigs, chicken, fruits etc in country side. It's a shame that some Romanians now say that Ceausescu was great and that back then it was better than now 😒

[@markumbers5362]

On a popular game show 30 years ago, the winner would get one minute to fill a shopping trolly with as much stuff as they could. Then they would add up how much money the goods were worth. It was fun to see the winner rushing down the aisles dragging whatever they could into the trolley. It wasn't long, however, until some comedians decided to make a Russian version of the show with the winner rushing down the aisle only to find the shelves empty bar one lonely looking potato.

[@gdutfulkbhh7537]

A big “no, thank you” to Putin’s Soviet Reunion.

[@abodabalo]

My wife told me that in 1988, GDR (Eastern Germany) policies allowed her grandgrandmother to travel and visit family in Western Germany. She brought back coffe, soap, citrus fruits, bananas.. And one time she brought a Commodore 64 with datasette drive. Heaven on earth! :)

[@Critic-qn3hg]

Love from Russia 🪆 get darker and darker😮

[@bogdanlupu3496]

I grow up în comunist romania, it was no fun,I had to stay în line for gas for The stove since 4am and the gas was coming in at 7am just so we can get gas. Same with bread,meat,Milk,I never understood why people still want the good old days back. It was not nice to live then

[@ValRawlings]

Thankyou Konstantin for this update very interesting, SLAVA UKRAINIA 👍👍💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@jeffsiegwart]

Fantastic!

[@DS-zr8pw]

What do people need bread for if they can have cake?

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

LOL

[@elmerkilred159]

I remember the stories from exchange students in the 80s who went to Russia. They said that bubble gum was a hot commodity, and so were Levis jeans.

[@jimmycrackcorn99]

You need more content like this from all parts of Russia.

[@TheFrewah]

My father worked for an energy provider and went to Poland because they wanted to see if they could by coal. While there, some polish people asked what percentage of communists there were in Sweden. He didn’t know, about five percent he said. They laughed husterically and replied in broken Englis. ”In Poland, no more than 0.5% communists”

[@baird5682]

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.

[@philipnehiley6579]

A lot of the time, people have to hit the bottom before they realize their ship is sunk.😎

[@franktoledo6342]

BACK BACK IN THE USSR . GOOD Video.

[@mckayuk]

To be fair it looks kinda Cold and I don't think laying an egg would be on top of my "to do" list if I were a Russian Hen. In Germany right now eggs are not so important as enjoying a hot Glühwein with a shot of Rum at one of the many lovely Xmas Markets that we force ourselves to enjoy so as not to disappoint our Russian comrades 😁

[@rogernewland1]

We love you man. You are awesome. Thank you 🙏. God bless

[@givemeabreak8784]

People can socialise waiting in a long queue but the sad part is when you wait for hours and the food runs out.

[@robertnortan87]

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

[@АлександрМолчюн]

Вы какой фильм ужасов смотрели?

[@EvaZieleniewski]

People lining up to buy cheaper eggs at an agricultural fair. While more expensive eggs are available at local markets. No story there.

[@cdrom1070]

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.

[@U.H8]

Can’t se any charm in this!! 💫💙💫💙💫💛💫💛💫

[@STONE69_]

At least they are buying the food. In Canada we have something called food Banks, where people that can't afford food can get food for free.

[@TheFrewah]

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

[@NSgeg765]

Send this to your friend Russell who does all those grocery store videos that cater to all the Vatniks who live in the West and have a glamorous view of Russia.

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

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

[@NSgeg765]

@@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.

[@davidnguyen3363]

I got to get in line this morning for my Starbucks coffee

[@99solutionsit10]

500 people waiting? Oh, more like 5, but who counts them? 😁

[@markb7898]

I remember seeing this on the news in the 1980s. At the time I was young and naive and used to ask my parents why don’t the world send them food. Food shortages are not something I have ever experienced in Australia. It seems to me that Russians like to suffer, they do not like to be happy. Is a very strange culture/country.

[@TheFrewah]

Its very strange but I have to agree.

[@xy6845]

Thanks for sharing your story Mr. K. It's important people can see, know and understand this.

[@rover1102]

I am sorry that you had to go through that. I grew up in Oklahoma. In the 80s I just finished college. I ended up having (the only opportunity) to take a job in Chad Africa on a seismic crew. I was lucky to have gotten it. My dad knew people. He worked for amaco. My alternative would probably have been military service. I never heard of food shortages in Russia. People here did not know it was happening. It wasn't in the news. At least I have no recollection of it. I have barely gotten by a few times. But I have always managed to be able to buy food. It's always been available for sale. Commodities in general have been there. It was all just by the luck of the draw as to where I was born. The majority of the people here have never actually seen abject poverty. They have no clue. I at least saw it in Chad. People see it in Mexico, though I hope those conditions have improved. We must have known about famines in China as that was how my folks made me appreciate the food in front of me. Never waste food. It isn't something I have any control over. I could give away everything I have and it wouldn't change it. They can have it when I die I guess. Or our government will. It's scary. So many live in a bubble. I am sorry you ever had to experience any of it.

[@Rickuttto]

@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(:

[@kubapuchar7069]

Old people want USSR back, because they remember from it only one thing: that they were young back then. And when you are young, everything looks better, sounds better and tastes better.

[@bluefarie10]

Have been re-reading the Master and Margarita by Bulgakov ... which is now looking depressingly prescient. The lunacy Bulgakov catalogues when a devil comes to Moscow was a barely concealed satire of Stalin's Russia. Everything he writes about resonates with Konstatin's crazy Fridays. Anyone who thinks the USSR was fun should read Bulgakov. It really wasn't. Look after yourself, Konstantin, and spasiba from England.

[@TheFrewah]

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

[@bluefarie10]

@@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 ....

[@TheFrewah]

@@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.

[@TheFrewah]

@@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.

[@bluefarie10]

@@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.