I wouldn’t normally write a post like this, but WE ARE NOT going to find this level of ground reporting anywhere in U.S. media. As you might be aware, I have been doing extensive research on the Russian economy specifically with the outcome of western sanctions.
In his video a Youtuber I follow visited a local supermarket, similar to a WalMart Super Center to share information for his USA followers.
Dima Dear, a remarkably nice young man, lives in St Petersburg, Russia (formerly Leningrad), and he shares various experiences with his audience at their request. There is a lot of U.S interest as people following his story are starting to realize life in Russia is not what western media portray.
If you are familiar with USA grocery prices, what Dima shares in this ground report is stunning from a U.S. perspective. If you watch this livestream, keep in mind that 100 rubles equals $1.00. 350 rubles is $3.50. Additionally for weighted products 1kg equals 2.2 lbs. So generally speaking, if something is 100 rubles/kg it is $1 for two pounds.
Example from the video:
•Lean ground beef at 329 rubles/kg is less than $1.65/lb.
•Bacon at 250 rubles/kg is less than $1.25/lb.
•20 eggs are 139 rubles or $1.39.
•Boneless skinless chicken breast $4 for 4lbs.
•Typical Bagged salad mixes .79¢ each. etc.
The wild part is that in Russia they are getting worried these prices are too high. 👀
The average rent for a nicely furnished 2-bedroom modern apartment in St Pete Russia is around $500/month. Something akin to downtown Manhattan. Including rent, utilities, food, transportation, personal items and purchases, a Russian citizen can live very comfortably, remarkably comfortably, on an income of around $1,200 to $1,500/month. In downtown St Pete which is considered a more expensive place to live.
Put that into a USA middle-class perspective and evaluate the impact of western sanctions against the average Russian cost of living.
100 rubles = $1.00
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“And the truth shall set you free!”
But first it will piss you off!
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Sundance if you don’t adjust the price in rubles for purchasing power parity (PPP) then it’s not really a comparison.
You can’t compare exchange rates and then make a determination on standard of living.
A hamburger costs 100 zelbucks on planet Melmac. Is that a reasonable price for the average resident?
We need to know the average and median wages of a Russian in that area in order to say whether those prices are expensive or cheap.
I was gonna write a comment but you beat me to it
Correct.
Another vector check would be total GDP (i.e., income) and how that is distributed (along a scale you chose; for example, percentiles, age, etc.).
What do they earn relative to this?
was curious about this too… about 1M rubles average annual salary, or about $10K.
so those prices would run you down very quickly.
We need those prices to move here
We need sane anti-Marxist anti-Globalist leadership here.
Putin has my vote, or if it comes to it, my axe.
We had it, before it was stolen!
What we NEED is President Trump back in our White House!
The prices quoted were in St Petersburg…the equivalent of living in NYC. Assume many of those people make more than the average salary.
The average salary, living in a small rural village, a person would be living fairly well.
The average salary is about $10-15k. But once you consider that we have to support our giant administrative state through a higher tax burden, FICA, Social Security, healthcare, etc, and then the high rents in big cities, and it’s probably accurate to say that the equivalent quality of life in Russia requires far less financial stress to achieve than in the US.
One of the largest myths in status quo, mainstream economics was the idea that Russia is simply a “gas station masquerading as a country,” with a GDP the size of Rhode Island, or whatever small jurisdiction that comes to mind.
Another myth is the actual size of our economy.
We aren’t creating or manufacturing much really.
Much of our numbers are “services” and paper games, squirrels swapping nuts.
Russia produces real products, real resources, huge difference and vastly underrated.
Not just Oil. Airbus gets its titanium from Russia, and last I read was still getting it from Russia, despite the sanctions.
And not because there aren’t other sources, but Russian titanium is less expensive and better quality.
The platinum or paladium in your catalyctic converters probably came from Russia, as well.
Gold leaf, the best comes from Russia.
Russia is a resource powerhouse, one of the greatest on earth.
There’s a reason the Derps of the West covet it so.
The oligarchs are what we call neocons. Trotskyite communist internationalists
Russian oligarchs – Wikipedia
👆👆👆 click above to read
Its the fastest reference material
I could find.
Oligarch is basically what we
call our “elites “.
The wealthy and corrupt business
owners, etc.
Hope this helps you understand.
When Putin first became president
he managed to legally kick quite Oligarchs
a few out.
This is a classic.
Vladimir Putin takes Oleg Deripaska to task – YouTube
👆👆click to watch
😉😉😀 The name is familiar……
Oops…he kicked out quite a few Oligarchs.
I have been saying Russia was the richest country in the world for years.
People are finally figuring it out.
Me too!!
This is one of the reasons China is cozying up to Putin.
FJB hasn’t gotten a foreign policy decision right in 50 years.
Also 2 very sought after gemstones: Alexandrite & Chrome Diopside.
And the marvelous Demantoid Garnet. The very best has always come from Russia.
Is that our Titanium that Clinton sold to them?
It was uranium, I believe
No, I think you are thinking about Uranium and the Uranium One company.
Boeing as well. Part of the problem of enforcing sanctions on these products is that the West are not just buying Titanium bars. they are buying the finished product custom castings. Russia titanium casting and welding is the best. Sadly for the US and the West that is the case in most metallurgy, their technical capabilities are seriously downplayed in the general propaganda.
You may not be aware but there is a new Russian Moon lander taking photos of the Moon that is due to land on the ‘unseen’ side of the Moon next week. There is also an Indian Moon lander up there too. It looks like the US’s space glory era is long gone.
I believe that “unseen” side is actually the south polar region.
Seem all past landings have been some proximity of the equator.
Remember that NASA had to use the back a$$ward Rooskis to uber US astronauts to the ISS for years, then came Elon.
Watched untold # of shuttle launches from many places over the years, the last one was standing in the backyard, was bittersweet, being proud of the program and knowing that was the end hoping all would be safe one more time.
Was a little surreal to have the TV showing the initial moments then seeing the craft rise over the tree line, eyes going back and forth to TV and the sky.
But hey, slashing NASA’s budget to 1/2% has eliminated inner-city blight in the US as promised. Am I right? [Based on stats from 2008. Don’t know what NASA’s stipend is in the age of omnibus.]
At least we can afford a really big telescope that changes astrophysics and generates a lot of YouTube click-bait. “No it doesn’t.” “Yes it does.” No it doesn’t” Yes it does.”]
And made us more “Muslim friendly”. LOL.
Sssshhhhh don’t tell the haarvaard folk you could shock them…
We manufacture the hell out of debt!
..The one thing (besides lying) our Govt’s still good at!
Looked at in terms of PPP it is the 5th largest economy.
See this comment…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/17/stunningly-low-prices-a-visit-to-an-average-russian-supermarket/#comment-10101747
I have read that although Russia GDP is less than most, its PPP something about purchasing power, is very high.
Andrei Martyanov writes on these things quite a bit.
Basically, the Russians have a reality based economy; ours was hollowed out and is built on lies.
LOW
Average Monthly Salary
26,200 RUB lowAVERAGE
104,000 RUB avgHIGH
463,000 RUB high
Careful Sundance… they might just label you a Putin stooge for sharing this level of propaganda! 😝😂🤣😂
The video will be taken down, or shadow banned, and certainly demonetized …
what is the status of gmo, pesticides, growth hormones, fd&c #3, seed oils, hydrogenated, trans fats, etc, all the crap that industrial ag inflicts on us here?
I’m guessing in a lot healthier condition there than here
I haven’t watched the video yet, but the few photos at the end look to be of very high quality products. That ground beef looked outstanding.
Putin outlawed all that garbage
I have recently watched news video reports by Alex Christoforou of The Duran, where he spent several days in Moscow, and in St. Petersburg.
He walks for much of his reports, and I noticed open air markets with vendors selling fresh foods. These were seen every day when he walked city streets and plazas. How nice to be able to walk a short distance from your home to purchase just-picked produce, freshly-baked loaves of bread, perhaps a prepared chicken and new eggs, and dairy products from a local farmer. To me, it does not get healthier than that.
Sounds like the notion of a smart 15 minute city. On one hand it is great, on the other not so great.
In NYC the Bogotas are similar ideas, now I think they are all starting to close due to crime.
Plentiful farmers’ markets are not open air concentration camps.
Convenience is one of the lies sold by the West hoping to impose those, but it’s quite certain not to be an actual outcome of such a horrific experiment in human domination and degradation.
Remember a few years ago they made the bodega owners take down the acrylic shields that were installed to for the clerks safety and deter theft?
The judge sided with the thieves attorney that the acrylic shields were you guessed it RACIST, let that sink in, I’ll bet dollars to donuts that there isn’t one person of no color running a bodega.
But I’m sure it wasn’t in Russian winter!
GMO is banned. Russian grain exports are clean.
Unlike those of say Ukraine, of which fortunately only about 3% of the famous, well publicised and now stopped, recent exports have gone to poor countries for direct use as food. Much of it seems to have gone to Spain to be used as pig feed.
Ukies were dumping the grain in Poland causing a collapse of the market for the Polish farmers, when they complained the POS EU basically told them to suck it up.
Then the Ukies complained about Poland not giving them enough weapons.
The Poles said no more grain thru Poland, the tension is at a very high level as NATO – read UK/US- is using Poland as a patsy.
The fellow in the video said he doesn’t buy or eat much of the food that is in packages.
I was told years ago that when you buy food, it should look like what it is, i.e., a head of lettuce, carrots, pork chops should be identifiable, etc. Don’t buy ground meat because you can’t identify where on the animal it came from. Additionally, ground “meat” may not contain “real” meat, but additives, including color to make it appear fresh etc.
They’ve been destroying our food for years. That is why we have so many physically and mentally sick people.
The more processed junk you eat, the less real food you are consuming.
I became a vegetarian about 15 years ago and 90% of what I eat is fresh and raw. I’m much healthier than people younger than I am.
Prine rib for me.
The globalists are why our food “point of origin” inspection/marketing is so lax now. Remember SD talking about how they will capture, regulate, & price certain things, NOT on the cost to make/get them, but by what the local market will bear (with Americans paying the higher price, always)?
The southern Mexican borders w/Guatemala, Honduras, etc uses the Suchiate river to bring cattle across, grown in awful ways, and then make counterfeit tags to bribe the agricultural officer to tag them for US consumption. Then they come to us “already approved” thru the USMCA approval process.
So we have diseased, shot-up, sick cattle coming to our tables. Saves globalists a fortune, adds to their bottom line, and God knows what parasites, tumors, disease, etc we are eating.
At least, there are some places to get decent meat locally, but it costs a fortune.
Hunter Biden got a bribe from the mayor of Moscows wife
HRC sent Uranium and special access program secrets to Moscow
Biden have Putin the Ukraine war and the opportunity to destroy the petrodollar
Treason has its price
Also ,just read that with the ‘sanctions’ the Russian economy increased by approximately 600 billion in the last year. Thousands of new millionaires.
If I can remember where I read article, will post. It was within the last couple of hours. Getting older does have some drawbacks.
Pray and help others.
In many of the Russian videos I have watched they seem to drive really nice cars over there.
Many of the Western car assembly plants there have now turned over to building Chinese products.
One of the many no doubt unintended consequences of the sanctions plan failing, a very profitable operation now turned to dust. The level of economic intelligence of Russia in DC seems to make ‘written on the back of an envelope’ an exaggeration.
I get it. where are my glasses? your closing sentence is a benediction.
Biden may have been conspiring with the Oligarchs – They were sacking and raping the Russian economy until Putin came in.
simple.
petrodollar alternative. and the petrdollar cant exist without military superiority to enforce the dollas the backbone only.
Check, Check
Welfare/warfare state, sucking the life out of millions.
But … will BRICS join the WEF and the UN?
BRICS members are already a part of the UN. They will be a multi-polar counter to the “liberal democratic” world order. Some of those countries aren’t interested in exported American radicalism and/or green nuttery.
Good for them. Now if we can eradicate it from our shores, we’d be doing a WHOLE LOT BETTER!
Wait. What? No tent cities or climate boiling? A world where a rainbow is just a rainbow? C’mon, man…
BRICS will bury WEF.
Of course, WEF was always a suicide pact for the West on behalf of China.
Thus a forgone conclusion it would expire in time.
The UN, well, haven’t fully gamed that out in my brain yet, but they are pretty aligned with that same project . . .
Putin allegedly hates the WEF and wants no part of it.
Putin and XI seem to have as one of their prime objectives the reconstitution of the UN back to how it should have been when it was set up after WW2, not as a tool, like the World Bank etc, of the US dominance of the World.
I suspect that within 20 years, if not shorter, it will no longer be in New York but probably in Africa.
“We have ways of making you join.”
Russia and China are already in the UN. The question is? Will the UN survive as an institution? It does not really provide an honorable intermediary function for the world body. As an example – The UN was worthless during the slaughter of Rwanda.
Sounds like they’re supporting the globul warming bs as well.
Gold backed Rubles and Orthodox Christianity is making Russia great again as the United States declines.
Low food prices and fair housing and fuel costs are proof the five year plans for farming have paid off handsomely. Just think about how wonderful the USA will become under a totalitarian regime. And I’ll bet the cost of transgender surgery is far less than current prices here at home.
Intelligent cohesive citizenry is a threat.
Do they have many imports or is it all domestic? Fuel cost?
The two stages of sanctions, in 2014 and 2022 have forced the Russians to be far more self sufficient in food. This has had serious adverse effects on the farmers and fishermen in the countries surrounding Russia.
Eventually the BRICS (capitalism) will force the collapse of the 5 Eyes/WEF/Marxism and a return to sanity.
It will however mean a lot of blood in the process.
as a whole, Russia is a deeply religious country so I seriously doubt the trans fad will take hold any time soon.
President Putin has spoken out against the trans deviance and mutilation of children. It was very clear that such heinous acts are not tolerated in Russia.
Wise man.
President Putin signed a law, in June, banning sex reassignment surgeries except due to serious medical grounds. https://www.rt.com/russia/580223-putin-law-gender-change/
According to Simplicious the Thinker, a contract Russian soldier fighting in the Ukraine earns the equivalent of $120,000 a year.
Russian soldiers tell this joke:
A farmer working in his fields unearths a lamp. He rubs it, and out pops a genie.
What is your wish, Master?
I’m tired of working on a farm, never knowing how much my crops will bring me. I want a steady job with a reliable paycheck.
How big a paycheck? asks the genie?
Oh, maybe a million rubles a month.
And then, POOF!, the farmer has a helmet and a rifle and he’s in the Ukraine.
Screw retiring to Florida. If we can avoid a nuclear exchange, St. Pete sounds pretty good about now.
Except it’s below zero for 10 months of the year. Lol!
The climate is moderate on the Baltic. Moscow is a bit colder, you need to go east of the Urals for cold winters. But the culture is compatible for winter. I preferred winter travel to Russia over summer.
But it’s a beautiful and civilized city. Just go spend the winter in the south of Spain.
Too chilly for me. Butttt … perhaps one of those Russian Bride websites could solve that problem?
I recently saw a video which was filmed there. It is a spectacularly beautiful city, steeped in history and absolutely immaculate. You could eat off the sidewalks. Also, zero homeless encampments, zero junkies passed out on the sidewalks, and zero human excrement covering the streets.
And they don’t destroy their monuments.
No, they are magnificent and pristine, even the centuries old ones are stunningly well kept.
Because it was the city of a white Russian aristocrats.
Check out Alex’s news videos from Moscow, then St. Petersburg, then back to Moscow at theduran.com.
The two cities are beautiful, very clean, full of history and statues!, beautiful large parks, friendly people, and subway stations that will bowl you over with their pristine artistry. Many old and elegant churches are there. The Hermitage in St. Petersburg alone would be worth the long airplane ride.
At least it might be possible for an American to vacation in Saint Petersburg Russia during the summer, and ‘save’ money for a future retirement in Florida. … Who would have thought it would be possible to save money for a retirement account, by vacationing in Europe.
[Just maybe we should all be saying ‘FJB and his ilk’ more often and louder.]
The St. Petersburg/St. Pete Plan.
There are parts of southern Russia that have palm trees and relatively warm weather in winter, very hot in summer. So you could live in St. Petersburg or Moscow and go south for the winter, easily. I bet it is super cheap to buy a nice place in the rural areas there away from cities.
I’ve been thinking this for some time…if only I were younger.
And Russia isn’t $31.7 Trillion in debt … saddling all future Americans with nosebleed amounts of interest payments
2012 in Moscow – young people, mostly – putting on a Russian flash mob version of “Puttin’ on the Ritz”
I personally do not want to go to World War III with these young people – let us all have peace and prosperity and tell the NATO Knuckleheads to take a hike!
Too bad. Biden and his henchmen are destroying this good country.
Threatening to, yes, doing, no.
Long as we don’t get nuke dumb, Russia will be fine.
They are building their military, their national pride and sense of identity and standing in the world.
They are taking the lead in creating the monetary union that will replace dollar based trade.
We are doing this to ourselves, to this, our own country.
Now that was awesome !!!! A must watch.
But they’re stuck in 1974 …
The falling snow just makes that work! 🤩
Wow, just wow. What a celebration, smiles, exuberance. With no vulgar gesturing, no twerking, no brawling, no shots fired. We are so far gone, I can hardly stand to think about it.
They all look happy and carefree and a little goofy…just like young Americans used to…
They’ve turned back to God, while our, “society” as a whole, has turned away from Him. What would you expect?
Whenever I see these old flashmob videos my heart breaks over what the demons have done to humanity.
The Russian spirit has survived Communism and has been revitalized! This video was made in 2012 – remember Sochi? 2014 winter Olympics in Russia. America boycotted/dissed the Russians – Obama did not attend the games. We could not open our arms and welcome the Russians into the Western Family of Nations. Such a shame.
The reset is imminent. Countries now trading without the dollar. American pension funds tied up in China. Evergrande has just declared bankruptcy.
And
https://fortune.com/2023/08/09/country-garden-default-china-real-estate-developer-bigger-than-evergrande/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-evergrande-seeks-u-s-court-approval-for-19-billion-debt-restructuring-8689262e
In my opinion, the entire covid thing was orchestrated to do one main thing….raise prices. All the other effects were not letting a crisis go to waste.
Last report I heard was our government said inflation was at 3%. I think they dropped a couple of zero’s. In my world lots of common items are double and triple Trump era prices. What idiot would pay $100,000 for a pick up, or $30,000 for a glorified go cart?
People are nuts, proof is in the pudding, not a peep from from oblivious americans.
SS COLA for next year already projected to be 3%, those damn old people, so they have to game the #’s, to keep the cola raise low.
Bummer.
All the large cap stocks that Democrats were heavily invested in went through the roof during covid.
Pelosi in particular made a boat load of cash by shutting down small mom and pops …. while sending out trillions that ultimately went back into her pocket via equity investing.
I can’t stand her!
Covid was orchestrated to steal an election.
The rest was a power grab, a trial run at tyrannical government, green new deal B.S., BBB, etc.
A libtard’s wishlist of things.
But the MAIN purpose was to lock us down and destroy a normal election cycle.
Never forget that.
Psychological torture… utilizing fear & isolation techniques.
The effect was comparable to “Cooties” on steroids!
It had nothing to do with a virus.
COVID was designed with many malign motives, including wrecking Main Street economies and inflation for sure.
But also Depopulation through VAXX, election fraud through Mail-In, digital currency, social credit scores, the Censorship -Industrial Complex, endless new m-RNA Vaxx mandates, kissing China’s ass in general, etc., etc..
Everything in Russia is propaganda.
I was in Ukraine in 1994 and 1997 , and a Bird Colonel was paid roughly USD 150 / month.
Subsidies can make anything look inexpensive. See Solar/Wind/EVs.
Reality has the last laugh. All the posturing, subsidies, lies, and disinformation, don’t mean squat in the Real World. Same in Russia as in the USA. Figures lie, and Liars figure. The only question you need to ask is: Was I better off in 2019 or now?
“The way to crush the bourgeoisie (middle class) is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” V.I.Lenin.
That’s pretty much what Biden has done. He inherited 1% inflation and 6% growth and turned it into 9% inflation and 1% growth in only 2 years. That sucking sound you hear is the deflation of your wages and retirement.
About 2 years ago, Peter Duece/Fox News asked Biden about inflation. Biden blew him off but was still on mike when he said, under his breath, “What an idiot, he doesn’t know inflations a good thing”. Thats what these DC vermin think of us. We’re just tools to raise more money that they can skim off the top. It was the plan all along.
Russians are far tougher than Anericans. The late 1990s have no relation to today. They managed to overcome the poverty and inertia of communism in 15 years. Now they are gaining momentum rapidly. Europe and the US showed the maniacal hatred and non acceptance of Russians, who used to look up to the west. Now they have turned away from the freak show of what the west has become. They actually are building industry, mining and oil production. Education is real, they produce engineers and for real educated professionals. They protect their borders and not confused about who are men and women. It’s not perfect, but the trajectory is better than here. We are toast. Will take more than 15 years to recover, from whenever the corrupt regime is ended.
1993 Boris Yeltsin was President. Yeltsin handed the reigns to Putin because He was not compromised with the oligarchs. The mid-1990’s Russian financial crisis and other events in the transition from Communism was a pivotal time period. They have navigated many crisis and choose wise direction to restore country based on cultural heritage and restored pre-revolution principals.
Reminds me of discussions about purchasing power parity.
Thinking that a deep dive into the numbers may reveal many more data points for how much the multinationals control the pricing of goods globally to maximize profits. Not really news to some here with trillions at stake in the global economy.
The Goolag spiders will likely be after the one who originally posted that video, if not already.
It used to be common practice in communist countries to heavily subsidze necesities such as rent, basic food items, and simple clothing. The rationale for this is that with such subsidies you can survive on a very low income, while you cannot afford “luxury” items. So, you don’t feel desperately poor, while your level of consumption is quite low compared to that in the US. Think of oranges in communist Poland, which had to be imported. Or, think of cars, which are not an absolute necessity. Something similar must be going on in Russia today.
Are you describing the USA?
Putin almost single-handedly saved Russia from American Robber Barons and Yeltsin’s failed attempts at reform, it’s been a hard road but he’s done it.
Russia looks nothing like the Communist hell that preceded it.
One might keep in mind that the West sent Lenin and financed his Revolution, Russia has no love for Communism or the ugly minds that spawned it, why would we be seeking our excuses for their success in the distant past of an identity they’ve resoundingly cast off?
The way we treated Russia after the fall of Communism was shameful. We could have helped it people learn how to self-govern, upgrade their heavy industry, etc. And we let the ravenous globalist oligarchs, organized crime, hedge funds, all the worst enemies of civilized society have at it. I couldn’t believe my eyes.
Indeed.
“Something similar must be going on in Russia today.”
Must?
This is the same nation that just 40 years ago had little food available, and blocks long lines just to have a chance at what little there was.
My, how times have changed.
Russia lost an estimated 23-30+/ men in WW2. It took them decades to pull out of that. joetato et al have, imo seriously underestimated the Russian people. They love their country and are proud to be Russian… kind of like what things used to be like here in America. I grew up in the 50’s and life was straight out of a Rockwell painting. I miss it.
For some Americans.
EVERYTHING was better back then. And if you’re making a not-so-veiled allusion to blacks… They largely had intact families, small businesses, safer schools, and a decent culture… Unlike today.
I hear ya.
But we can get there again! Start by turning back to God, and His Laws.
We have some SERIOUS clean up work to do!
Me, too.
What a work freedom and a little righteousness can do.
I will have to follow
this young man.
Thanks Sundance.
Sanctions are only hurting
the ones who placed the
sanctions. US, NATO and
EU only hurt their own citizens.
Boomerang and Karma
in play big time …in real
time☺️
I have read articles of Americans who have immigrated to Russia. If you can speak the language and support yourself, you will apparently be very happy. Land is cheap, farms are available, food is reasonable as you’ve shown, oil and gas are reasonably priced and the people are very friendly.
Promotion of perversion is not allowed. By presidential decree, Putin makes sure every high school student has to read THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO before graduation so they know the horrors of communism, what their country went through, and never return to it. Years ago, Putin told the people to return to church and to worship their Creator.
When a memorial was finished to honor all those who lost their lives during the communist years starting in the early 1900s, Putin dedicated it.
Two years prior to his death, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn spent an afternoon with Pres. Putin and explained to him what more he thought needed to be done. The one thing was to give the outlying rural areas besides cities and towns, their own governance and abilities to rule themselves. This has been done.
When Alexandr died two years later, Putin removed the communist’s name on the largest street in Moscow and replaced it with Alexandr. Solzhenitsyn’s name.
In 2021, Pres. Putin gave a short speech to the Valdai Discussion Club. Here is that speech with English subtitles. I transcribed it for an article, but it is magnificent! Oh that our politicians were stating what Putin told these people. Listen to it, it’s amazing!
Putins responce to Covid was A) to reject the offer of Western vaccines and instead develop their own, B) to leave it up to local health officials to determine policies in their area C) no mandates and IIRC, no lockdowns.
Boy, what a psychotic dictator Putin is!
Putin has made Russia the sane man of Eurasia.
Certainly more sane than the, “West”, who have absolutely frittered their birthright away for dung!
My friend wants to know about immigration policies.
He thinks some of those Russian women are the most beautiful in the world.
Thank you Kelleigh! Excellent work!
The average St. Petersburg resident earns about 48,407 rubles ($750) per month. From a cost of living perspective, not a whole lot of difference. Awesome video though. Intersting to see how people in other nations go about their lives. Also valuable to understand the reality outside of how our media portrays things. I’ve seen similar videos done in Palestinian markets. They don’t go without, as the US media would have you believe.
Ok , but I remember when I made close to that in the 80’s , and eggs and pickles were not that cheap or at least similar .. what happened to us after the eighties ? No way one can compare , average 50 k salary cannot keep up here with the inflation.
50k in the USA is about 20-25k after Govt Thievery/ taxes at every level.
dollar is now 90rub, so that makes it 500$. in smaller cities its 300$, average pension 150-200$
The multinationals of BigAg apparently do not have a foothold in Russia.
Viva low/ normal prices!
Yep. You did recall as I did
And healthy food!!!
I am quite thankful for my local Aldi and community farmers market on the weekends in my County because they still allow the average person to be able to find staples at a reasonable price and survive!!! 🤔
We shop them for decent produce, but the farmers markets in St. Louis are ridiculously expensive!
If I didn’t see it for myself I would not belive it.
How wonderful for for the average Russian….the feeling of ascendancy. You don’t need to hate or look down at others, you just need to look behind.
The utter charade of GDP
Note @ 1:20:00 that the summer sausage has theft prevention wrapped around them like found on computers and electronics. That is not indicative of a healthy economy and society.
Also, from the body language I would say that they are being very choosy of what they are buying and how much. To me that means their budget is tight and they are very price conscious.
If this is St. Petersburg Russia, akin to downtown Manhattan, then I have to wonder what the situation is in less prosperous areas? Things are not always as they appear at first blush.
Should add a bit of context….
Russia GDP per Capita(2022), $15,345.1, Gini Index, 36.0
USA GDP per Capita(2022), $76,398.6, Gini Index, 39.7
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI
Look on the bright side, we still have something good going for us: Our big ag carrots are delivered much cleaner. LOL.
Each individually packaged cut of meat has a security tag?! Not quite the paradise imagined, at least not yet.
I always enjoy visiting grocers travelling abroad. Angola was the weirdest – only about 100 products in the each small grocery store, so they’d always have a full big aisle (20-30% of the whole store’s shelving) stocked with nothing but cooking oil to consume the void. Another half-aisle with onions.
Oddly, every small store had Pringles and those single-serve moo-cow wax covered cheese rounds. Now that I think about it, Pringles were also everywhere in Bangladesh.
Seeing is believing.
I love it!
The chocolate comes from Germany, but is branded Merci, with a heart, neither is very German . . .
Reminds me of my favorite chocolate ever found in France last century, but never again, the entire maker is gone, nothing comes close either, especially from this side of the pond.
I do console myself with my Sho-Ka-Kola from Germany, originally made to keep Les Sales Krauts on their toes, it’s a heck of a pick me up, I had more than a wise portion of a tin of such today, part of my caffeination regime when CTH duties require it.
Even more significant are the reports that Russian cities are signifcantly cleaner than our cities, lacking the appaling spectacle of homelessness, missery and open drug use that are common place here.
It’s obvious TPTB want our cities looking the way they do, for reasons we may know some day.
The big AG food pricing schemes that Sundance has written about so often come ringing home in this thread. As each of you hit the grocery store each week, that increase keeps going up and up
Milk less than one dollar a liter. Using this as I watched the video. (1 USD ≈ 94.02 RUB • Aug 17, 12:00 PM EDT • Data from XE)
The sanctions against a nation first policy is a wooden arrow into a steel wall….hence Donald J Trump
Educate those around you of the realities and the great pretending
Yes, I must memorize that, and have it in conversations, as the great goal is to wake people up, and let them know that THEY DONT HAVE TO PRETEND ANYMORE…
average wages in russia: 15,000 USD$ annual
average wages in USA: 74,000 USD$ annual
average food inflation in russia: 2.23 % in 2023 (so far…noting: there was DRAMATIC drop in food prices in 2023,
compared to previous 10 years…
same for USA: 3.4 % (this “official” figure is not accurate..it’s more likely to be around 10 percent for 2023, and likely around 20 percent in 2022)
russia inflation rate year over year: 4.3 % (2023, so far)
same for US: 3.8 % (2023…it was just over 8 percent in 2022)
big mac index (a reliable comparator to purchasing power parity)
russia: 1.49 USD$
USA: 5.15 USD$
russian “central bank” interest rate: 12 % (mortgage rates are about 8 percent, first new home loans)
US “central bank” interest rate: 5.5 % (mortgage rates are about 8 percent, first new home loans)
God Bless America
Context matters, the wages are lower but so is the cost of living. Russia is economically independent, as we used to be before democrat, neocons (communists) and their RINO toadies started the drive to outsource and the corporate addiction to govt subsidies from China and Mexico
Pretty soon everyone’s going to want to move to a BRICS nation (except China (censorship) and South Africa (race riots)).
I doubt it. Brics are 3rd world sewers. But with the flood of 3rd worlders into the US we will soon be too
This conversion rate and food prices by themselves are not meaningful unless we also know that the average monthly salary in St.Petersburg is ~52,000 rubles, or ~ $520, in St. Petersburg; this is according to Average Salary in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation – SalaryExpert. I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the source, but together these are indeed very interesting numbers.
real salary is smaller, 300-400$
average salary in Russia is 300$ per month
Estimate of External Debt of the Russian Federation as of June 30, 2023. According to the Bank of Russia’s estimate, external debt of the Russian Federation as of June 30, 2023 totaled $347.7 billion, having decreased by $33.0 billion, or by 8.7%, since the end of 2022. If you are looking for the why, this is it. External investment in Russia is low. As a result, Russia and its government must be quite frugal. They also are not spending a few million here and there on studying gender equality in amoebas.
so very true….russia science is real “hard” science..with specific goals…strategic economics and defense goals that are actionable. while it is permitted in limited cases, “govt” officials in russia are not allowed to blatantly copy right, patent or enrich themselves with state (public) funded projects.
looking at you fauci.
I’ve often contemplated what life would be for someone like me…There seems to be some great wilderness unspoiled by “things”. Maybe next year…I have to choose my next hunt…it’s usually canada..but russia is on the list.
Living in a third world country (with nuclear weapons), one would expect prices of consumer goods to be low…
I doubt Russia can be labeled 3rd world now
America has a third-world Occupation Government.
But their day is coming soon. praise God!
Malachi 4:
1 For behold, the day comes that shall burn like an oven, and all the proud and arrogant, yes, and all that do wickedly and are lawless, shall be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But unto you who revere and worshipfully fear My name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings and His beams, and you shall go forth and gambol like calves released from the stall and leap for joy.
Hallelujah!
Fact is in the 50’s-70’s before Russia turned from communism and back before Clinton started outsourcing our middle class jobs to his communist buddies in China & socialist buddies in Mexico , Russians read and occasionally saw photographs of US grocery stores, homes etc and viewed them with envy. Democrats have destroyed the US
And rinos helped.
Love of money is the root of all evil!!!
Just hoping Russia’s venture into Africa doesn’t go the way of Afghanistan; the US had to go in and regroup and rebuild the drug trade, arms trade and human trafficking……………
Same with Ukraine……
Same with the Balkans, Kosovo was built to order……..
Same with Syria; the ancient Christian territory was saved by Russia………..
Same in Libya ; they became a prosperous, educated, and worldly country; the US saw to an end of that.
Proxy wars under the guise of ‘doing good’ for the world……
History will not be kind to US; it’s all been hidden from US to accomplish the NWO; it’s a BIG club and We ain’t in it according to the authors.
God Help US
PS Russia is building churches……time for the US to do the same instead of building up evil drug cartels, fake wars for arms trafficking, and worst of all abortion mills around the world and human trafficking……
AMEN
Need home churches, that’s what they do in repressive countries.
Can you tell us what the average salary is so that we can do a true comparison? Surprising given your really good information and Analysis in general that you do not bother to do so
You can ignore my comment above since other people have posted the same question more or less
from what I’m reading we can add another gov/MSM “Big Lie” to the list – decades upon decades demonization of Russia.
Bet none of that grocery list is transfected with mRNA either.
$500 bucks a month wouldn’t get you a cardboard box in south St. Petersburg, Florida!!!
In the early 1980’s I had a 2 bd/2bath apartment in Brentwood-Los Angeles CA for 500$ a month.
We where like this; now we are not.
Any videos of Russia show its refreshing lack of diversity.
Its as if diversity has been weaponized against us, similar to the diversity that toppled the Roman Empire in Byzantine.
Its time to smelt the statue of liberty into swords.
Diversity is a weapon.
The Diversity Fetish is a war.
Might be a good place to retire… assuming Biden, i mean NATO, doesn’t start a nuclear war.
I have to add my two cents. While I didn’t live in Russia I have been to Moscow on business. I found the city very clean, safe and very modern where we were but the people were very distant and suspicious. There was not an inherent trust in a handshake or that a contract would be honored. It was a “show me the money” before relinquishing deliverables.
Even convenience stores in nice neighborhoods had uniformed security guards watching shoppers.
Years of distrust and government spying – even among family members – has taken a toll and is part of the DNA.
Ummm, “Even convenience stores in nice neighborhoods had uniformed guards watching shoppers.”
You don’t get out much in the US do you?
Heck I saw that my last time in London.
Couldn’t take the diversity and cameras everywhere, cut the visit short and fled to France.
Three days after came the 7/7 Bombings.
Appears as though “Western Sanctions” are working perfectly as designed…against us!!
BINGO!
There is no need to say St. Petersburg used to be called Leningrad. St. Pete was founded in 1703 and was only called “Leningrad” during the Soviet era.
If the average resident of St. Pete earns $1500/month and pays $500 month for housing then he is just about on par with the average U.S. middle class wage earner. The better comparison would be how many hours does the average resident have to work to pay for housing, food, etc., and compare that to the U.S. wage earner.
Bidenomics in action.