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Article by Sergey Ermolin
Can we, the former citizens
of the former great Soviet country, recall now how pre-Gaidar era stores and
shopping looked like? Have we lost our memory due to senility, congenital
dementia, or stupidity acquired by exposure to the democratic and liberal
virtues?
Perhaps, we just don’t know
due to our youth and lack of education as suited to the contemporary citizens
of the current anti-Soviet countries.
Human memory has a distinct
property, which is severely exploited by all kinds of political crooks. It
stores and most easily recalls the most recent and vivid events, and obscures
those trivial and mundane. It’s
especially true when the eyewitnesses are people who may be honest and
objective, but superficial and incapable of independent thoughts and elemental
analysis.
It turns out that out of all the periods of
our lives, they only remember the period of artificial scarcity and deficit in
times of gorbachevschiny ...
We remember that in 1989 the Soviet Union had 24,720 collective farms. They produced
21 billion rubles of profit. Unprofitable collective farms were 275 (1
percent), and all of their losses amounted to 49 million rubles - 0.2 percent
of the profits. It was a ridiculous low percentage of losses. The Soviet Union
had a population of 4.88% to the total population of the world, and the
"poor state and collective farms," produced in 1991 wheat - 16.2% of
world production, oats - 45.1%, rye - 55%, barley - 29, 5%, coarse grains for
cattle feed - from 10.1% to 13.7%, butter - 21.4%, canned milk - 33.7%, meat -
11.7%, sugar - 15.7%, vegetable oil - 12.7%, confectionery - 30.7%, chocolate -
19.6%, canned fish - 42%, margarine - 12.2%.
We remember that the Soviet
Russian Federation in 1991, per capita produced: cereals and legumes - 599 kg,
the third place after the United States and France, potatoes - 231 kg - the
first place, meat - 63 kg, sixth place after the United States, France,
Germany, Great Britain and Italy, milk - 350 kg, a third place after France and
Germany, sugar - 20.9 kg, in sixth place, the fish catch - 46.8 kg, second only
to Japan.
We also remember that the
Soviet Union in 1991 produced 75% of world production of linen fabrics; 13%
cotton; 19% wool (2.6 square meters per person, while in Germany - 2.4 m, in
the United States - 0.7 m); 12% silk; 19-20% of hosiery (2.9 pairs per person,
and in the UK - 0.8 couples in the United States - 3.5 pairs); 22% of knitwear;
10.9% of TV; 15% of irons; 17.4% of refrigerators; 12.6% of washing machines;
4.4% of cameras; 17.1% of watches.
We remember that we
lived relatively well on the average European level, occupying comparatively decent
26th place in terms of Quality of life (QOL) (USA - 19th place) according to
the UN and the 7th place in terms of nutrition. Were there any problems? Yes.
There was a problem of the high purchasing power of the population and, as a
consequence, the unmet demand.
Can we consider them “poor,” these
people who had virtually free apartments and free garden plots, and dachas
(suburban houses) with decent size plots in the suburban areas? Are there many
countries in the world where the majority of the urban population has
apartments and own suburban land with houses? Was it a sign of poverty when the
majority of population had the means and opportunity to get anywhere by air
transportation, not to mention by the railways? Was it a sign of poverty to have
overcrowded resorts in Crimea, the Caucasus, and the Baltic
states ? Could we call a sign of poverty the queues in restaurants
and cafes due to the high demand?
To be honest we must admit
that with all this, we still had people suffering in poverty. Was it a sign of poverty
to own a Soviet made Volga sedan and not a
Mercedes? Of course it was poverty. Was it a sign of poverty to own a
multi-room apartment in the center of Moscow Rublyovo-Uspenskoye Highway Spain
or France Monte Carlo
We remember that the Soviet Union produced 173.3 million tons of grains in 1985; 188.2
tons in 1986; 187.6 tons in 1987; 175.2 tons in 1988; 190.4 tons in 1989 ; 211, 5 tons in
1990, 154.9 million tons in 1991. The Soviet Union
had been buying abroad corn and other grains for cattle feed, but not bread.
The Soviet Russia produced 100 - 120 million tons of grain per year, in
contrast to the anti-Soviet Russia
(Russian Federation
When the Soviet
Union produced 120 million tons of grain, it was buying additional
grain, but a loaf of bread cost 12 kopeek (cents.) Now, the anti-Soviet Russia
The miracle has not happened.
It’s clear and simple as a cow’s moo.
Before 1991 the Soviet Russia
had 40.2 million heads of cattle, and 23.5 million pigs. Respectively, the
anti-Soviet Russia Soviet Union
was buying additional corn and grains. Now,
the Bolsheviks and Stalin are long gone, and the rulers of the anti-Soviet Russia
There is no such thing as a
miracle. Mikhail Lomonosov, a great Russian scientist of 18 century, formulated
that if something is added, the same amount has to be subtracted from something
else.
If the money went abroad for
the purchase of food, so the population is left without means for proper
nutrition. Therefore, if the Soviet Union’s citizens consumed 3340 calories a
day and the nutritional level was on the 7th place in the world, the
anti-Soviet Russian
Federation
Where was the source of the
notorious Soviet deficit? Was the country hit by some unprecedented disaster - earthquakes,
floods, tsunamis, fires, which destroyed factories and all the farmland? Did
factories, collective and state farms stop working? Nothing of that sort. The weather was good and the factories and
farms worked just as hard, as is evident by the impartial performance
statistics. Why then the indicators show
that the anti-Soviet Russia
We remember how, under the
sweet singing of “superintendents of
perestroika,” of OPG the Gorbachev's
gang, Gorbachev and his accomplices made hasty, ill-considered decisions that
tottered, deformed, shook, and broke the unified national-economic complex of
the country.
We remember how since August
1986 with the abolishment of the state monopoly on foreign trade, the right to
export abroad was granted to the Ministries, to the large enterprises,
companies and even individuals (USSR Council of Ministers Decree №1405 “On the
further development of public, cooperative and other public organizations"
from December 2, 1988), which led to the destruction of the existing balance in
the economy. Domestic prices regulated by the government, were much lower than
the cost of the same goods abroad. With this opportunity to sell products
abroad without state control, flow of the products within the inner market was turned
to the external markets. Abroad went food, gold, furs, timber, fertilizers,
chemical products, electrics and radio products, home appliances, and many
other products made and intended for the domestic market.
We remember that in 1987 we
adopted the Law on joint ventures, which created favorable conditions for the
export of Soviet raw materials, which together with the abolition of the state
monopoly on trade increased the outflow of goods abroad.
We also remember that the
consequently adopted Law on the State Enterprises provided priority for the
production of goods for export, which of course contributed to further emptying
and looting of the domestic market.
We remember how a few months
later Gorbachev’s gang passed the Law on Cooperatives, which did not contributed
to the filling of the domestic market with goods. On the contrary, this law
gave the rise to the conditions for the growth of crime and shady business and
black market dealings, when finished products through cooperatives and joint
ventures went abroad. It was so profitable that even aluminum cookware were converted
to scrap just to sell it as a scarce metal abroad.
We remember how with the
accompaniment of media demonizing the Soviet consumer goods, which were, though
not as beautifully packaged as foreign, but due to strict government standards
had high quality at relatively low prices, electronic and home appliances en
masse were sold abroad, exposing the domestic market. In 1990 the third of
domestically produced consumer goods were sold abroad. The process of removal of goods from the
country in 1990s cannot even be called the export. It was not exporting; it was
the SALE
In 1991 3,448,000 refrigerators
were sold on the domestic market in the USSR
Tape recorders sold in USSR USSR
Meat grinders – 350,000 sold
on domestic market and 650 thousand, or 65%. exported.
Stereos - 450Kon domestic
market, and 750 thousand or 62.5%. exported.
Radios - 5,310 million pieces
sold home, and 3,589 million or 40% went abroad.
Sewing machines - 976
thousand pieces stayed home and 624 thousand or 39%. Went abroad.
Laundry washing machines -
3,876 million pieces sold home, and 3,724 million or 49%. Went abroad.
Cameras - 1,400 million units
sold home and 1,600 million or 53%.exported
Watches - 20 million pieces
sold home, and 56 million or 74%. Exported.
Car - 200 thousand cars sold
on domestic market, and 720 thousand., or 78%. Were exported.
TV sets - 2,500 million
pieces went to domestic market,. and 7,420 mn or 75% exported.
Speaking of TVs: when one of
the Prokhanov’s assistants on "the Duel" of Vladimir Soloviev on 21
November 2013 started talking about the
mass export of home appliances in the years of Gorbachev’s perestroika,
including TVs, Soloviev dismissed the speaker, saying that no one supposedly
needed Soviet TV set, when everyone was chasing the "Panasonic."
Solovyevs could be chasing
the "Panasonic" TV set, but the Soviet people chased the Soviet made television
and could not buy it because 75% of the TV sets went abroad. People all over
the world were happy to buy the Soviet made TVs, along with the refrigerators,
clocks, watches, cameras, and other Soviet appliances.
I live in a city where there
was a huge television factory, and consumers here had never before had any
problems with the acquisition of television sets, of this particular factory,
as well as any other TV brand, produced in the Soviet
Union . And suddenly those TV sets were gone along with the refrigerators,
irons, washing machines, vacuum cleaners and other home appliance products. A
television factory worked and continued to work in three shifts, but the store
did not receive TV sets, but there were at the factory and near enterprising
people with an appropriate reward for the factory to get your desired TV. On
what scale of acquired not state-controlled export of televisions abroad, shows
a curious and rather sad case when the winter 1991, the Government of Turkey
addressed to the Prime Minister Pavlov USSR to organize in Turkey a network of
service Soviet color TVs, which appeared in Turkey more than a million,
although official data televisions from the USSR to Turkey were not supplied.
We remember that in the
beginning of the restructuring of the free market in the USSR
We also remember that the
trade deficit was not created only by wrongful, harmful, inconsiderate,
reckless decisions and laws. Anybody with a head on his shoulders understood
even back then that Gorbachev and company pushed decisions and laws that were
well thought-out to serve the specific criminal purpose, including sabotage. It
was an all out sabotage of the supply of the consumer goods to retailers. A
significant amount of goods that were not exported and still remained in the
country was deliberately hoarded on wholesale bases and warehouses and had
never reached the consumers. In 1990s, only one of the parliamentary committees
had revealed the discovery of goods hidden from the retail sales with the value
of 50 billion rubles. Dozens of freight trains with food, meat, vegetables and
fruits and other commodities were detained under various pretexts at the
entrances to major industrial centers, including Moscow, Leningrad, and the
capitals of the Union republics for a few days, or even weeks, with devastating
consequences as for the customers, so for the produce, fruits, vegetables and
other perishable food products.
We remember the putrid stench
emitted by refrigerators and freight cars and cars, stuck on the railroads and
roads approaching Moscow
Generally speaking, the
organization of the deficit in the country was carried out very professionally.
People suspected that it was the work not just a group of crooks and looters,
but the well-coordinated team of professionals who knew what to do to cause the
shortage of the supply and the crisis in the country, and extreme irritation of
the population resulting in political discontent.
Although the deficit has
touched almost all consumer goods, but the main emphasis, in addition to food
products were the consumer goods of the first necessity, goods in which a large
number of the active population has immediate need, the consumer goods which
absence would cause the strongest anti-government sentiments. Those goods
included alcohol and tobacco, as well as soap, other hygiene products and
detergents. We remember, as the absence of soap in the mining showers were used
for the establishment of the first organized anti-Soviet movements and turned
the miners in the force of counter-revolution. It was a brilliant idea to
organize the deficit of soap in miner's shower to provoke discontent and anger
of the workers’ groups. It's one thing the absence of soap in a bathroom of a
clean educated urbanites, trying to wash their hands before dinner. It is a
completely deferent matter when hundreds of outraged miners come from
underground and want to wash off the coal dust and dirt after a hard and
dangerous day of work in the mines. Let’s
keep in mind, of course, that all the consumer needs in detergents and hygiene
products were fully provided by the powerful Soviet chemical and soap
industries.
How to organize the man-made deficit
can be seen in the Grand Scam conducted by the Gorbachev's gang by violating
the provision for tobacco and tobacco products. At the time, the Soviet Union
was producing 360 billion cigarettes and cigarettes annually, ranked third in the
world behind only the USA
and China
There were many tobacco
factories in the USSR Bulgaria
In the summer of 1990
suddenly and simultaneously tobacco and tobacco products completely disappeared
from the store shelves in many cities of the Soviet Union .
From July 8 to August 5 the entire staff of one of the largest in the country Clara
Zetkin Leningrad tobacco factory was sent on vacation. At the same time, the
employees of Uritsky tobacco factory name were sent to vacation until August
19. Simultaneously, two Leningrad Moscow
In addition to this, the
stock of Bulgarian cigarettes was artificially reduced. Normally, the Bulgarian
tobacco products were used to prevent the shortage of the domestic cigarettes. The situation to some degree could be
mitigated by the immediate delivery of cigarettes from Bulgaria , but a few trains of the Bulgarian
cigarettes were stopped at the border of the Soviet Union ,
at the station Chop, where it remained for a week and a half
Moreover, Bulgaria
I also remember the shortage
of ice cream in Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow
All these led to the
implosion of the domestic consumer market, giving rise to unprecedented in its
proportions speculation and economic crimes. The country’s balanced budget had
collapsed. 1988 was the last time when the balanced budget achieved albeit with
great difficulty. Already, in 1989, the budget deficit amounted to 100 billion
rubles. The country was sinking into debt. If at the beginning of Gorbachev’s
and his clique’s rule the external debt was as low as $20 billion, which for a
country like the USSR was considered to be negligible, then towards the end of
his criminal activity the budget deficit had exceeded $100 billion.
Mysteriously, the gold reserve of 2200 tons decreased to 200 tons. It was just
the very beginning of the outright looting of the country that resulted in the Yeltsin’s
coup in August 1991 and the collapse of the Soviet Union
in December 1991 facilitated by the Gorbachev-Yeltsin gang. However, this was
only the first part of the plan to seize the control over the country by the
Yeltsin’s gang. Territorially, the country was thrown back 350 years. The
country was only at the very beginning of the GREAT GRAB, or the GREAT ROBBERY.
The looting of Russia
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