Interesting news about ration cards. Like the next wave of mobilisation that has never come, I thought that rationing would be a step too far for Putin: something we'd only see when things became truly desperate.
These are rumors, just like the freezing of bank accounts. They are made by Ukraine to create bank runs and shopping sprees, all to raise the inflation rate.
It's not like that at all. It's definitely not about rationing, the idea was to make a helping program for poor people, but one where they can't buy vodka using that help, only food. Like American food stamp program. People who talk about it like a rationing either never actually checked what was proposed or deliberately lying. :)
After 70 years even the die hard Leninists had to admit the command economy wasn't working. To go back to it now would be a desperate act that won't work now either.
You would be greatly surprised, if you were to speak with young well-off professionals in, say, Moscow. IT specialists, managers, etc - generally people who are against Putin. Somehow a lot of them are convinced that under command economy not only they would be better off, but everyone would better off, if only the command economy would finally be done right.
That daily casualty chart is really something.
A regiment could be anywhere from 650 to 1000 men. So the Russians are losing nearly 1 to 2, maybe 3 regiments worth of troops...a day.
Yes, maybe not all killed but certain taken out of the fight that day.
3 regiments a day.
Like something out of WW1.
Like Verdun but spread over 1200km of fighting.
Interesting news about ration cards. Like the next wave of mobilisation that has never come, I thought that rationing would be a step too far for Putin: something we'd only see when things became truly desperate.
These are rumors, just like the freezing of bank accounts. They are made by Ukraine to create bank runs and shopping sprees, all to raise the inflation rate.
It's not like that at all. It's definitely not about rationing, the idea was to make a helping program for poor people, but one where they can't buy vodka using that help, only food. Like American food stamp program. People who talk about it like a rationing either never actually checked what was proposed or deliberately lying. :)
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After 70 years even the die hard Leninists had to admit the command economy wasn't working. To go back to it now would be a desperate act that won't work now either.
You would be greatly surprised, if you were to speak with young well-off professionals in, say, Moscow. IT specialists, managers, etc - generally people who are against Putin. Somehow a lot of them are convinced that under command economy not only they would be better off, but everyone would better off, if only the command economy would finally be done right.
I was surprised.
Surprising indeed! Many people have no understanding of their own history.