Destroyed Food

From the MT:

"Russia Destroys 26K Tons of Food in Response to Sanctions"

More than 26,000 metric tons of food have been destroyed in the three years since the Russian government launched an embargo on imported agricultural products from Western countries in retaliation for sanctions. The Kremlin ordered the physical destruction of food from the Western countries that levied sanctions against Russia for its 2014 annexation of Crimea. Critics argued the food blacklists amounted to a “war on food” and evoked memories of Soviet-era famines.  Russia’s agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said in a press release on Monday that it had destroyed more than 26,000 metric tons of banned food since Aug. 6, 2015. “Many of the products are fruits, particularly Polish apples, as well as a significant amount of Turkish tomatoes,” the agency said in its release. Almost 8,000 metric tons of contraband meat, dairy and agricultural products have been seized at the border in 2017 alone, the watchdog said. Rosselkhoznadzor named Belarus as the chief transit point for banned food, and noted that some sanctioned products reach Russia via Kazakhstan.

^ These facts must make the starving people throughout Russia feel better. Rather than give the food to those that most need it (and are suffering) the Russian Government would rather publically destroy the food to show their strength. Of course if the Russian Government remembered its history they would learn that one of the main reasons the 1917 October Communist Revolution against the Czar happened was because ordinary people were crying for bread and a reason the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 was because of the lack of basic things (like food.) Russia (Czarist, Soviet and Modern) has always focused it's attention on taking over the world rather than taking care of its own people. Maybe Russia could pay more attention to the starving people within Russia rather than Crimea, the Donbas, occupied parts of Georgia or Syria. That would be a first. ^

https://themoscowtimes.com/news/russia-destroys-26k-tons-of-food-in-response-to-sanctions-62450