Soon the nation’s capital as part of a major farm festival will decorate with fake food products. Unlikely according to the organizers, but there is a special irony, as with the actual food business in the country unimportant things: prices are rising, quality is falling. But props in all areas of our lives, by contrast, is rife.
In June in Moscow starts festival “Our product” designed, as the name implies, to demonstrate the capabilities of domestic producers. The theme of the trade fair will become a tradition of Ancient Russia. According to the tender documents, festival grounds will decorate wooden carts with hay and fake products, art objects “Orthodox churches”, “Fish on a stick”, “rocking Horses” and numerous painted birch bark, pots, birch bark products, etc. On the design of the festival, the city authorities plan to spend 167,5 million rubles.
No doubt, especially Muscovites and guests of the capital will be willing to do selfi on the background of the carts with fake food, as they recently were photographed in the background of the “green women” and the Easter hare, which the city was decorated with the festival “Moscow spring”. However, this time hardly aware that taking part in a Grand performance — a far more global than town fair.
The problem is that the festival, designed to demonstrate abundance and generosity of the Russian land, occurs on a background of bright events in real life.
In children’s Day the government decided to weaken the Russian food embargo on baby food, in fact, recognize that for two years in the country and failed to establish the production not of some unseen delicacies, and the most regular high-quality products suitable for children. Chicken, beef and vegetables. But at the same time hinting that adult citizens are fed, to put it mildly, not the best quality food. So far, thank God, not of papier-mache, but, judging by the endless scandals with the composition of the products has long been is not very natural.
A few days earlier the Ministry of agriculture has proposed to create a Fund of food aid, which will collect donations of food to the needy. Needing today is already one in eight Russians, the number of poor in the country is growing faster than the fruits of import substitution. In Moscow parks, without waiting for the Ministry of agriculture already hold charity events to collect food for the villagers. Now more and more city feeds the village, not the village — city.
Start the food stamp programme, which could ease the situation, postponed until 2017. Is necessary to suffer. We all remember how the Prime Minister only recently explained to pensioners in the Crimea, that “no money”, and urged them to “stick”.
The amazing thing is that all this time, the country continues to systematically, although not show it on TV, to destroy, to burn, to crush, to bury — the products are good consumer qualities, but recognized “enemy”.
Traditionally, explaining that Russian farmers competition from the West, stopping to spread her wings.
However, while the struggle against Western food in parallel with the increase in food prices in the country pays dividends rather large agro than simple peasants. So, if in 2013 the net profit was registered in Krasnodar region Agro them. N. And. Tkachev (this is the name of the father of the current Minister of agriculture) amounted to 2.5 billion rubles, while in 2014 it had grown to 4.1 billion, and in 2015 reached 6.6 billion rubles.
It’s hard to say, I wonder whether this effect, the organizers of the Moscow festival “Our product” or genuinely wanted to please people, but today it looks much like the film “Kuban Cossacks” with its abundant collective fairs in the background of half-starved life in the country in 1949.
Known for the famous phrase of Stalin, said after watching the film: “I always knew we live in the village very well!”
It is also known, how to actually survive then in the villages. After Stalin’s death some of the letters coming then to the Kremlin, were published. As, for example, a letter from a peasant woman Rakhmanova from kolkhoz imeni Dzerzhinskogo Kaluga region: “Money do not see, as on workdays did not give out. Live only on your fries together with my daughter, and who has a large family — children swollen with hunger…”
Of course, hunger is not, but the abundant life is difficult to call — almost 70% of Russian families spend on food (and low price segment), more than half of their income. Other people can not afford. This is not a sign of a developed country.
The situation in Moscow is traditionally a little better, but also not optimistic. No wonder the townspeople are wondering whether to hold the festival outside the festival? Maybe let those millions in bonuses to doctors and teachers? Or the same single pensioners on medication?
Whether the spectacle is a sham carts with food to distract citizens from the problems, where to buy real food at affordable prices? For some time Yes. After a holiday in a big way always brightens up a rather modest and joyless life. One of the oldest Russian traditions — throwing good money after absolute dummies, Potemkin villages, mysterious projects, etc.
This is Norway may waive the right of the country in the Olympics or world Cup, because “too expensive”. Russia — never.
And what is happening in recent years and is reminiscent of the solid props: from mummers Cossacks and Orthodox Communists to the quality of adopted laws and discussion of an exit strategy from the crisis.
Of course, even in the most difficult times one should not become despondent and crawl to the cemetery. And you can celebrate without caviar on the table. That’s only if money, which, according to him, there is no spending just for the dummy, soon all the products could be fake. And not only products.
