The destruction of the state’s relationship with agriculture has its roots in the Bolshevik revolution. Soviet nostalgia has become a marketing device to make young people nostalgic about what they didn’t experience anyway While lack of imports could in theory stimulate local producers, Russian agriculture is in poor shape – a legacy of a country where businesses that generate instant income, like oil and gas, take priority over those that need investment and care to be taken out of decline first. Or, companies just bypass the regulations by sticking Belarussian labels on Lithuanian or Polish products. New Russian “cheeses” sometimes use palm oil instead of milk, “fake” foods abound and the Russian beer that’s available in the shops of Moscow is famously terrible (my apologies to the producers of Baltica and Sibirskaya Corona). The quality of items for which Russia was famous, such as rye bread, has gone down significantly as producers try to replace banned ingredients. Those who have money might still be able to sip foreign beers, but the saddest aspect of nationalistic and supposedly pro-working class sanctions in Russia is that they hit mainly poor people.Īnd for those people, the food is becoming increasingly inedible. Yet beer sales have dropped as the crisis has made them more expensive, hitting big import names like Carlsberg particularly hard.
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