I found this 8-minute video to be quite interesting. As we consider the scale of food price increase in the United States, this video of a Russian supermarket yesterday is fascinating.
Considering the sanctions levied upon Russia by the western alliance, it would appear that they are coping quite nicely. The guy who uploaded the video shares, “I took my camera with me on a quick Beer run to give you folks an idea of what a small local supermarket in a village South of Saint Petersburg, Russia looks like. How do the prices compare to where you live?” WATCH:
https://youtu.be/6bq8MfAlNPY
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This is the kind of real information the U.S. media would never mention.
The sanctions were not really aimed at Putin …….
Yeah, that was aimed at Europe’s own head. 🤪
The sanctions were aimed at USA taxpayers,
who may be applying to retire to Russia, where they could afford food-
and gas !
FJB ! Trump WON ! Twice and will win again.
USA energy dominance is what we voted for-
And Peace through strength.
Most americans would live better in Russia nowadays, than this Commie Leftist Nazi SH!Thole Biden has given us.
The “Green Revolution” tax forced upon us.
The Sanctions were aimed directly at us for “Not Electing Biden’s Regime” and the Ukrainians for not liking Biden….
with a side of the EU being a victim of their own stupidity!
It is as if Sundance had never heard of the Potemkin village.
Stay tuned for the latest RT news release of military victories in the Donbas.
I believe there is a Potemkin village in Delaware where a Potemkin President spends about half his time.
Potemkim, Potomac, whatever. …we just have to stop them come November.
HA! There won’t be an election in November nor in 2024! TPTB will make sure of it! At most, it will be ‘mail-in ballots’ and we all know what that will mean.
Exactly 💯 💯
Thanks offcoursenation
There is also a Potemkin Village in Washington DC. And it includes the WH. Obviously, with their “staged Set” because the pResident is not able to be functional in the Oval Office.
But we do remember those old Soviet era supermarkets with bare shelves and long lines of people standing in line.
Russia has lots of gas because they aren’t Global Warming freaks.
Russia has lots of farmland that isn’t owned by Bill Gates.
Russia doesn’t seem to be showing any of those “supply chain” bottlenecks that plug up ports the way we have.
All of that translates into a plausible Russian supermarket with NORMAL prices. The kind we used to have just a couple years ago.
This video is Potemkin only to people with short term memory loss.
I believe Russia has a dearth of Dopium.
Just finished the 900 age Gulag Arch…(can’t spell)
Stimulates the imagination, toward darkness.
We have emergency flights bringing in baby formula from Europe, and begging Dictatorial Venezuela for oil…
All while sitting on a debt bubble currently in excess of $30.000,000,000,000.00. Bear in mind that the Biden regime, added a shocking $7,000,000,000,000.00 since his installation, to bring it to 30 Trillion.
Reporting the numbers with all of the zeros makes those debts even more impressive. I bet if you asked the average College Graduate how to write a trillion they could not or would not tell you.
My remembrance from my time there was, whoa, 11 time zones. I was there just after Communism ended so saw both the remnants of the Soviet system and the emerging capitalism.
What I noted most poignantly was poor or not, Russians, and Slavs in general, were tough, stalwart, rooted people. Perhaps that’s why the current situation here doesn’t really scare me. Slavs are my roots. My family came from Russia. They hated Communists. So do I.
FSU folks will be fine. They’ve been through a lot. In comparison, we’ve had it pretty easy. Now it’s our turn.
Regarding the Russian toughness, very very cold winters will do that to you!
The maps that I find always show Ukraine advancing. But each map shows Russia controlling more territory than the last map from the same source.
Who knew that propaganda could be so funny.
Western media is propaganda.
For the truth, go to independent journalists and outlets, like TCH, Viva Frei, The Duran, The Dreizin Report.
Military Summary on YouTube is by far the best source for detailed information on the Ukraine war. He also reviews the situation in Syria.
By far the most accurate.
Try military summary on Rumble. He has a daily update.
https://rumble.com/c/c-1613003
Yes,it’s called Fake News.
Baghdad Bob was an amateur.
During the Spanish Civil War, the leftist side issued a communique that said “The advance continued with no further loss of ground.”
Have you ever been to the Russian Federation? I have seen for myself the reality of life there in multiple locations. It is a fascinating country and diverse mix of people on a par with the US. There are no apparent details in the video that appear contrived or potemkin. It requires the ability to read Russian and notice details that would create suspicion by their presence or incongruity. It is very refreshing to have a current view into an everyday store.
Thank you, Brian, for your refreshing and honest remarks from personal experience.
I welcomed the glimpse into Russian life.
iEarlGrey does a good job here, too:
Eli from Russia on YouTube has some good coverage of current Russia
https://m.youtube.com/c/ElifromRussia
This is another young man who lives in St. Petersburg and has an excellent channel of daily life in Russia.
Sergi does some fun walking tours of beautiful St. Petersburg . This young man loves his country and has had his channel for a long time. It seems little has changed for the citizens.
https://www.youtube.com/c/BaklykovLive
Well, think about it. How much really changed on the ground here, in continental U.S., when our military invaded Iraq? Afghanistan? Libya? Nothing- most would have never known if not for “news media.”
It’s no different in Russia.
I visited in October of 1996. I was hoping to find some roots to my dad’s people. I stayed with the mother in law of my Russian teacher’s friend. I spent nearly 2 weeks there. The family had to register me with the local police. It was the EXPERIENCE of my life. The awesome thing was the women with whom I stayed got us tickets to Swan Lake ballet at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg the night before my 45th birthday.
I spent most of my days in St. Petersburg and was actually there on the day the helicopters were re-installing the crosses on top of the local churches. The cheering crowd there was humbling. They were finally getting back what was once ripped from them.
I spent a good amount of time there in 2003; both Moscow and St.Pete. Moscow was a dump. St. Pete was better and pretty but extreme have and have nots. No middle class at all that I saw.
The smaller villages an hour or so from Moscow were very affluent at the time and had most western things.
Have you recently visited Chicago,Baltimore, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland? Absolute s#!tholes,. And this is a small portion of a very long list, that’ is rapidly getting longer.
New York and DC have become even worse lopsided sewers, than they were previously.. US cities are imploding, and quite fast at that.
Lol….
You’ve got some surprises headed your way my friend..
Never heard of it… Except for the hundreds of times he’s used the phrase? 🤦♂️
You are deluded.
Keep drinking that copium. They are issuing sim cards for Russian phones in Melitopol.
Piffle.
This isn’t the 80’s Soviet Union.
Anyone can walk around with a mobile phone and film supermarkets, to prove or disprove it.
You are undermining your credibility by your regular desperate beetle headed denials of obvious realities.
Are you one of those who think Ukraine is actually winning???
Yes he is.
He is suffering through a bad bout of cognitive dissonance, hopefully he’ll pull through.
Be polite, move on, and remember, don’t stare.
A great miniseries documentary on the Cold War had a piece I wish I’d grabbed — a Russian entrepreneur who was allowed to travel as the USSR liberalized in the 1980s bought a video camera in the UK + filmed — a supermarket…
Aisle after aisle of ultra-boring shots of him going over the shelves as he walked thru.
He said he showed it to his mother who said nothing —- but started crying uncontrollably — then kept murmuring how much they’d been — lied to…
That is the New World Order we are being thrust into…
You’ll own nothing + be happy…..
We are Great Resetting back to that….
We had Russian teachers in an exchange in 94. They cried when they saw our National Gallery of Art. They were told we were heathens…..had No art. Knew they were lied to for all those years. Lots of Americans need this kind of wake up.
This is so intensely shamefully embarrassing to those of us who remember showing off free, prosperous America to Russians.
I liked shopping on the Arabian Peninsula (UAE + Saudia). Produce from everywhere in the world. Variety of pears or plums or tomatoes to choose from. Europe – Africa – South America + beyond…
I spent a bunch of time in Kuwait. The souks had 60+ varieties of olives, etc. Fascinating.
Did they have (animal) meat?
Yes but where I was in the UAE you couldn’t get a steak medium rare. They always burnt it to prevent blood…
Oh my – 60!? And then the different cheeses!
I totally forgot about Bodingtons! Imma get some now. Lol. Btw- I’ve never heard of or seen Harry’s Bread…. Anyone else?
Left Coast SW Washington State , Tiff , and No , I have never seen Harry’s American Bread .. 🍞 😁
Enjoyed the Video , For Sure ! I’m happy to see that things are not bad in Russia .
Where I am at things are not too bad yet either . I guess it depends mostly on where you grocery and where you get gas .
Winco for groceries and the Reservation for gasoline .
Winco is an Employee Owned Grocery that is based in Idaho and right now only located in 10 states .
Gasoline can be a little bit cheaper on an Indian Reservation as they are exempt from state and federal taxes . I’m lucky to have one near me !
Enjoy reading Your Posts , Tiff ! Have a Lovely Week 😊
It just seemed like a Russian brand selling American “style “ white bread. Like we would name a Russian style whatever “Ivan’s “.
Bread bakeries are localized. Bread takes up a lot of volume and you don’t get a lot of money per loaf. Even the national brands have bakeries all over the place because the cost is in transportation and stocking the shelves.
Heck! In “Our Fair City” in the Midwest, we had two Wonder Bread bakeries just to serve the city and surrounding ‘burbs.
You have the premium national brands Like Brown Berry Ovens which generally use slightly more expensive ingredients, but I believe have fewer bakery locations. So they cost more due to transport, advertising, and a bit of upcharge for the snooty factor. If you’re telling people they are buying a premium product, they expect to pay a premium price.
Anyhow, you can go to your local grocery and buy naan. No, it’s not baked in India and shipped to the U.S. People like new and different tastes from elsewhere.
I noticed that Harry’s sandwich bread, too. It was printed in English. I’m guessing, guessing it’s made in a few plants for those who want American-style bread and maybe made under license from Harry’s bread made somewhere here in the U.S.. And maybe it’s just something made up in Russia. The price seemed too low for an import. Like Mrs. Smucker’s Jelly,** with ma Smucker on the front making jelly over a wood burning stove, it’s just marketing.
I very seriously doubt that it’s shipped any farther than a nearby larger city that has several commercial bakeries.
**My grandfather loved Mrs. Smucker’s Jelly on his morning toast. He always told the same (bad) joke every morning, too. “Mr. Smucker needs to buy Mrs. Smucker a new stove. She’s going to have trouble keeping up with that one.”
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After all that, No. I’ve never seen or heard of Harry’s bread. It may be a brand here in the States, and it just might be a marketing scheme by a Russian bakery.
We’ve come full circle.
Old: Soviet era markets with bare shelves
New: American stores with bare shelves.
Future: Food rations and maybe worse while Russians look on with curiosity.
Earl! He cracks me up. I am still not convinced he is who he says he is, but he is entertaining. Sometimes he almost has me convinced I should try to move to Russia. He loves to talk about how many bins they have for trash and how clean the parks and city is. No nasty graffiti there on their buildings.
When I see U.S. parents taking their small children to stuff money in tranny stockings, Russia looks darn good.
Any thoughts on if and/or how really ill Putin is?
Sorry, but I like the USA and it’s Constitution which no other country even comes close to.
I will stay, fight, and attempt to clean house, remove the corruption, and restore the Constitution as mentioned by the Founding Fathers for the future generations to have one real place that stands by it’s foundation against tyranny.
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that “if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom,” it is a very serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.” – Samuel Adams
“A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.’ – George Washington
Remember that there is much that this corrupt evil government does that it never had the legal authority to do.
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” James Madison – Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 3rd Congress, 1st Session, page 170 (1794–01-10)
“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” – Thomas Jefferson
“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.” – Samuel Adams
America didn’t invent man’s desire for freedom, but our Founders devised the first system of government to affirm each individual is born with God given rights. They then created a Constitution that limits the government to protecting the God given rights of each individual.
You are correct; no other country comes close to our exceptional country.
The USA is the largest Potemkin village in the world. Unfortunately. It was destroyed by the Communists / Democrats. We in Eastern Europe already have this bad experience behind us.
For some reason I became sad reading these quotes. Sad for our country.
Thank you for the reminder. I think what happened was that when Russia opened up in the 1990s they knew God was the reason for the difference. I knew some people who went there as missionaries, and they were able to speak in places they would never have been allowed here (“separation of church and state” – that thing that isn’t even in the Constitution or even close to it!) I think what we are seeing is a national version of Ezekiel 18:21-29. But even now we should repent of our pride in trying to have a good nation without God. If we beg God’s pardon, He is compassionate.
Athens, Greece is loaded with graffiti. They are in the EU and NATO, yes? Wonder how the graffiti amount is in other European nations. We see plenty of it here in the US, too–though not as much as Athens.
And…I do not believe that Putin is ill. It is propaganda, IMO.
There is plenty of graffiti on the apartment complexes. Most Russians are urban, the farms were collectivized, apartments in large cities or villages in the country. The “new” Russians, which are the new wealthy, build single family houses. It may have calmed down, but you would see a lot of partially constructed new Russian homes that sat there, as the owner was bumped off by rivals. Aside from Moscow and St. Petersburg most cities are about a million. Row upon row of grey apartments, from the Stalin, Brezhnev, etc., eras are the norm. There is a very popular movie of man who goes home after drinking, and as everything looks alike, ended up at a strange girls’ apartment, after which they fell in love., etc. The food is excellent, the beer and vodka excellent and the cigarettes are decent and cheap. Recommend learning to at least read in Russian, it is a very easy language to read and write, the slang and nuances will take years for fluency. You will never utter a word and not be known as a foreigner, immediately. There is crime in large cities, personally I have never felt threatened in a large amount of time traveling alone. The culture is not comparable at all to Europe or the US. Liberal/feminist type people would have coronaries as politically correct is not only not known, but such attitudes and behavior are considered uncultured, unbalanced, disgusting and possibly criminal. Never mess with any authorities with a bad attitude, and you are watched at all times. With the recent incitement of violence and theft against random Russian civilians in and by the west, I cannot share accurate observations of how a foreigner or American might have risk. In general Russians are suspicious of foreigners and authority (their government) yet are polite. The general indifference and rudeness in public was a survival trait learned to cope with communism. I mean people are polite in conversation and behavior once you meet an individual. The venomous attitudes towards a population they know nothing about which is popular in the west now is over the top and hopefully will not be reciprocated.
Price and selection on the beer was quite good.
Western citizens are being played of course
Not if one CUTS THE CORD!!
Yeah. Blind yourself and all the bad stuff goes away just like magic.
These are still pretty steep prices for a Russian. The MEDIAN wage is about 110,000 Rubles/month or about $1,500/month. Need some insight on any subsidies that may be offered to the average Russian. The latest spot exchange is 1 Ruble = about .017 US Dollars.
The average wage is listed at about 125,000 Rubles/ month, the upper half (over 110,000 Rubles) is not too much better off.
Inflation and sanctions are hitting the Russians just as hard if not harder for some products, in the pocket book. The average Russian has to make tough choices just like folks every where.
The one interesting point though is the amount of stuff there actually is on the shelves.
For those not used to shopping in European Markets, the prices listed are per Fraction of a Kilogram or typically per 100’s of Grams (1 Kilo = 1,000 Grams = about 2.2 Pounds).
Liquids are per fraction of a Liter or 100’s of Milliliters (1 Liter = 1,000 milliliters = about 0.264 Gallons).
Overall, close to half the prices of my Dollar General.
(my DG is stocked to the gills with baby formula…Similac was 18 bucks a can last time I looked)
Thank this illegitimate administration for erasing our disposable income.
BASTARDS all of them.
So did Old Joe shoot himself in the foot again or is it part of nefarious plan to destroy the USA?
Hmm… an apartment in St. Petersburg, for the warm months and a small dacha in Sochi for the winter.
All is Beer Well in Russia, it seems.
They even have baby formula!
Do they have a Костко in Russia? With Киркланд toilet paper! I’ll betcha they got the 151 Stoli, 2L size, for five bucks.
This guy needs to watch our news to see just how bad he has it!!!!
Seriously, that store was cleaner and better stocked than the local store in Vermont when I visited in 2006.
No matter if the vid is propaganda or not it shows that the Rus people are doing a sight better than Americans or Europeans are at this point.
Couple shopping at a big grocery store near Moscow last week.
Comparing prices and availability to pre-sanction.
Look at all those angry Russians. Like I’ve always said, 85%+ of people just want to live life, it’s the jacka%$ “rulers” that eff everything up.
Better prices and selection compared to stores of that size near me in suburban NY, fifty miles north of Manhatto.
I posted some pictures of the meat counter at Eastern Market in D.C. in a recent thread. The prices were cheap, compared to where I live in Oregon, and selection was robust. The local who makes such daily videos of life in D.C. often includes food and it appears they lack for nothing. Lucky them, ruling class location perks? IDK. Is Moscow and Kyiv like that?
One factor from my time in the FSU was apples to apples. My US dollars were in demand and to me prices were scary cheap. Local Russians and Ukrainians, however, very different story. Forex, the doctor I was dating worked at the ER in Odessa and was ex-military in her 40’s and made hundred and fifty bucks a month, which was apparently a quite good salary. To me that was walking around money at the time and bought me a private room on the train when traveling around. Different perspectives.
Loved his video!
Fun to watch, and his descriptions of some of the foods–Nescafe was a winner–were clear and clever.
Thank you for posting the video, Sundance. We all need some smiles!
Everyone, be sure to watch iEarlGrey’s video:
“I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY’VE BEEN SANCTIONED!” – The New Russian Supermarket Gameshow!
I’m happy for Russia. I hope they come out of this much stronger than they started. We caused all of this as usual and frankly are in bed with WEF and the NWO – we are the bad guys.
Well, our government is. WE aren’t.
Lulu ,
I said as much above , that I am happy for Russia 😊
I’m Glad to see I am not alone in this thought !
Always enjoy Your Posts , Lulu ! Happy Week 😀
I hope Tucker gets this video and shows it to his multi million person audience with his usually and simple points.
if anyone expects the Russians would starve or have to stand in line to fill a tank with unaffordable gas they might be shocked to learn that Russia is a major EXPORTER of food and fuel and therefore the sanctions will not affect their food or gas prices other than possibly making them cheaper for the consumers.
Why can’t we get organized enough to counter this destruction of our country? Approximately 1/4 of our entire country’s popluation voted for President Trump. That is a significant number, and frankly, some who didn’t vote for him can’t be happy with this level of inflation. I am so tired of feeling helpless to do anything, but I also admit I don’t know what to do to counter this.
I have done what I can on a personal level to counter by not complying with illegal mandates, shopping local as much as possible, buying USA manufactured products when possible even at a greater expense, etc. I definitely pray. I am sure the patriots here are doing similar things.
But, I can’t open the pipelines back up, I don’t run a fracking operation, I don’t run energy companies who are wasting who knows how much money putting in those inefficient solar panels and windmills, and I am not in car manufacturing wherein I could keep manufacturing vehicles that run on gasoline, not those ridiculously inefficient EVs . If I were in charge of such companies, at this point I would want to ignore the governmental stupidity and do what’s right for the country and the company.
The areas I have responsibility for in my little circle I have made efforts to help the nation. But, even lobbying at the state level has been quite the disappointment as even at that level the corruption is already pretty deep.
So, the question remains how to counter this? I know we all want to know. It seems to be getting very, very late. I want my children and grandchildren to know a world of hope and opportunity, not one brought to its knees in poverty, famine, hopelessness and chains to some corrupt elites.
Your first sentence is the million dollar question. Why don’t any of these pundits with huge national audiences ever attempt to organize the masses in ways that will affect the ruling class and show the strength we have in numbers. Calling for Boycotting woke companies, maybe certain ones each week, stop investing in these horrible government backed multi-nationals. For whatever you think of Bill O’rielly, he did that on multiple occasions. Makes me think these pundits aren’t on our side and are just doing what the elites allow them to say and do. They all love to tell us incessantly how bad things are and how much worse they’re going to get, CTH included, (though that’s blasphemy to many here). Do they offer solutions, not so much. It’s on us folks, at this point who else can we trust.
Sagemoto,
I am looking at myself as I ask these questions. I am certainly not leading any charge aside from what I mentioned I do in the little area I have influence. I am getting suspicious of a lot of the pundits, too, although I do exclude CTH — they never beg for money and have been in the game for a long time.
It’s just so frustrating…how did the founding fathers do it? They had less means of communication available than we do, although they were dealing with a much area. Still, it was a portion of the eastern seaboard and inland to some extent.
I have definitely been making comments to store clerks, tellers, etc. , but we need so much more.
The founding fathers were the elites of their day. They had resources and held a great deal of authority in their communities.
If you or I went out to try to rally the people, we would first get laughed at, tazed, thrown in a cell, then forgotten about. And it would all come to nothing. That’s why we followed Trump; not because his ideas were greater than any of ours, but because he has the weight of authority behind them.
The sad reality is that no revolution works without defectors and support from some of the elites.
Interesting comments 🤔
👉”blasphemy”?👈
Since I got the opportunity to read 📚 your post 📫
CTH is making allowance for you…and all of us here. He says that he (Sundance) is in a Paul Revere role. We’re the Constitutional Republic Citizens responding to his alerts ⚠️
✅️If “action” is what you need you can always start your own site and call it “Sagemoto Sons of Liberty” 🗽…
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Oh my goodness! We have fools running this Country. They were trying to put the hurt to Russia and ended up putting the hurt to the American people! Those blank brained idiots!
I think they wanted to hurt both.
They probably count this as a win.
That was eye-opening.
Sanctions work.
The ruble is at historic highs.
I don’t have much time to watch videos, but I would watch the ones from Russia showing “youths” smashing and grabbing shopping carts full of everything. That is, if there are any of those.
Wow.
That supermarket is cleaner and neater than any of the ones I frequent, and has prices where you can actually tell what the items cost.
CUT THE CORD
CUT THE CORD!!
in my area, with a radiius of 75 miles, these prices (per the video and only the video), are about the same in sum.
I am not surprised by this. two reasons:
this area is along major I-10. Cost of living is low (prices are thus lower).
What I would be interested in is 5 things:
For those wanting to do the math, here is the local cost of a mdonald’s big mac in my area and across a larger 75 mile radius, encompassing 1.45 million permanent residence and temp workers (transiants):
$4.15 (plus tax, which varies from .111 to .06 ( mean .078). most locations within 15 minutes max from I10 corridor.
God Bless America
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He’s a Brit expatriot living in a burb of St Pete for 4 years. His blog is very interesting, he has a great speaking style and dry humor. Highly recommend iEarlGrey Rumble.
https://rumble.com/user/iEarlGrey
I have watched several Russian videos during the last 2 years. Seems like they had plenty on the shelves and didn’t seem like they shutdown their economy over the KungFlu. They just went about their business.
The more the enemies of the people (including most republicans) hate on Putin, the more I root for the guy. They (Russians) have systematically exposed one big pile of western bullcrap after another and they have the entirety of Europe about to get hammered this winter with fuel and natgas prices. European wieners deserve it, just like we deserve it. We are sending much of our natgas to Europe to offset the Russian losses. Guess where your electricity and heating bills will be this winter? Many people just won’t be able to pay creating yet another manufactured crisis. America Last. China and India are living-large and loving this.
I know Putin is an old-school commie creep, but help me understand how FJB or Hussein Obama are any worse? How about the Clintons? How many people have they killed that got in their way?
This guy Sergei is Russian and speaks excellent English, lives in downtown St Pete.
He also does grocery tours, walks through St Pete, and if you scroll way, way down and find his road tours 2021, there are some beautiful cities he’s visited. He did a road tour recently in 2022 to the artic in April. Those towns are very small and remote, perhaps less interesting. He also does pub crawls locally and has done a Faberge Museum tour. Lots of stuff here.
https://www.youtube.com/c/BaklykovLive/videos
This vid of his is grocery shopping in downtown St Pete late March. Shelves are stuffed.
His recent video is a stroll through St Pete on June 6 at 3am to showcase the white nights. Utter daylight.
I subscribe to a few Russian Youtube channels and have seen the same thing in their video’s. Not only are prices cheap but they haven’t gone up much if at all since before the sanctions. Also the large Russia supermarkets have a mind boggling amount of variety on the shelves.
The MSM will not show us this but luckily we can see the reality in Russia with our own eyes by watching Youtube. Also these Russian Youtube channel’s dispel the big lie that Russians are cut-off from the west. They are not. They can broadcast live video chat’s with anyone anywhere in the world.
It’s all about creating food and fuel shortages here in America.
The left wants to create hardship to gain control of the country. Meanwhile republicans and conservatives do nothing in response.
the coup is coming.
Something to keep in mind, the prices are somewhat comparable to the prices in the USA but their average annual income is far less than ours.
I’ve followed the rising costs in Russia since this debacle started. Doesn’t seem to be shortages, but prices have gone up substantially.
But at least they can get baby formula.
Thanks for posting.
Russia’s per capita income is only 40% of what it is here.
Salaries in the big cities are also much higher than in smaller towns and villages.
As is the case everywhere else in the world.
To be honest, this looks a bit Potemskin-esque. Hope it’s real tho.
Sorry….found your comment in our bin. 🙁
Anyone can walk into any store with a mobile phone, it’s not the 80s.
FJB and F UNIPARTY.
Remember, there’s a lot of propaganda out there. Don’t believe everything you see, hear, or read.
This lacks the context of what prices were 4 months ago and the context of what the average monthly Russian income is. You really can’t determine what effect the sanctions have had unless you know that specific information. Of course, when compared to typical costs in western currencies, the prices in most eastern euro countries are almost always less.
Good point. When I was there back in the early 90’s and dating a local she was making 150 bucks a month as a medical doctor. I was making between 5 and 6 thousand a month and clearing a bit more than 2/3 of that. She had an apartment from Soviet times provided. I lived on acreage in the country in a big house.
What my time there taught me was the value of people and things. The struggles of the Communist era really bonded people. They didn’t have much in the way of things but they had each other. Good lesson.
How do account for the extremely well stocked shelves?
Why is my previous post not shown?
Truthsayer….. We recently banned someone whose email had the word “truth” in it. I think that gave our filtering system a “false positive” match. I deleted that part of his email address, so fingers crossed that’s the end of it.
The thing is they have delt with our sanctions for years and they have developed a system around them. Plus they have the oil and the wheat
Hmm, don’t you find it odd that that Russian supermarket is actually better stocked than many American stores today? FJB.
The vegetable and fruit prices you see are in rubles per kilo. R61=$1; one kilo is 2.2 pounds.
I guess invading other nations pays.
Worked for Germany in the late ’30s to early ’40s too, and then when the pushback came, KABLOOEE!
“I guess invading other nations pays.”
By your ridiculous metric every American should be a billionaire.
Let me set fire to your strawman. It’s your metric, not mine.
Were the all Germans millionaires/billionaires for invading their neighbors in the middle of the 20th century? No.
But they did have more food and other goods after looting them. Which is exactly the case with the Russians.
Strawman?
Comparing Russia with 30s Germany is the mother of all straw men.
Russia is energy and food independent, it’s has many trading partners not aligned with NWO puppet governments. In fact a large part of international trade relies heavily on some of its exports to survive. Additionally it has its own defence industry, and isn’t reliant on agreements with globalists… not that agreements with them(globalists) are worth the paper it’s written on.
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Sanctions and bullying was never going to work. Not even a little bit. Stop dreaming.
Hope is not a plan
I traveled there two years ago. I would not have believed the high standard of living there if I had not seen it myself.
I traveled unescorted to several cities even took their public transportation. Everything about their lifestyle is comparable to ours.