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Year of 'hellish sanctions:' Russia began to live better than Britain
2023-03-11
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Victoria Nikiforova

[RIA] The English press marks the anniversary of the economic anti-Russian blitzkrieg with mournful articles. "Hellish sanctions" brought a paradoxical result. Russia opened up new development opportunities for itself, but Britain, which for a long time positioned itself as one of the richest countries in the world, did not survive the sanctions regime.

According to IMF forecasts , in the next two years the Russian economy will grow faster than the British one. In England, last year they recognized the beginning of a recession, that is, an economic downturn.
This year it will only get stronger.

Behind beautiful formulations such as "negative growth" (this is how British experts call the fall in GDP) and "crisis in the cost of living" lies a dull everyday reality. The British began to eat less, dress worse, wash less and heat their homes. This is not yet post-war Britain with food cards and a black market, but it is no longer the glamorous financial paradise that Margaret Thatcher tried to build.
All those outcomes in Britain are the result of deliberate “Green” policies, meant to fix the nonexistent carbon dioxide/global warming problem. As far as I can see, Britain’s Russia sanctions have very little impact in comparison.
The popular tabloid Daily Mail,
...where America gets its news, and clearly Russia as well...
responding to inquiries from the masses of readers, issued a "report" from Russia, stating the obvious: vaunted Western sanctions designed to punish President Putin have failed. Russians still eat well, dress well, drive private cars, and don't suffer from the cold in unheated rooms.
A well-deserved reward for not going green. But they’re still pulling WWII-vintage tanks out of storage to put up against Ukraine, so life continues imperfect in the former Soviet Union.
Supermarkets in Perm (English journalists collected material by communicating with Perm residents on social networks) are bursting with the freshest local and imported products. At this very time, British supermarkets are limiting the sale of cucumbers, tomatoes and sweet peppers in the classic "two pieces in one hand" style. Another deficiency is eggs and chicken. The fact is that poultry and greenhouse vegetables require increased energy costs, and its cost has increased significantly in Britain over the year.

To give greater credibility, the authors of the Daily Mail quote a certain John and his Russian wife Elena from Perm. John is a researcher, Elena is a university teacher. Here's what they allegedly told the paper: "The average Russian only cares about having a warm home, food on the table, a glass of vodka
...just one glass? I am truly shocked, though the same could be said about beer in Britain...
and safety on the streets. We have all that. The conflict (in Ukraine) hasn't changed anything."

"A glass of vodka" sounds good, the only thing missing is a bear with a balalaika. But there is another cranberry in the material. John and Elena claim that they pay 11,500 rubles a month for a "communal apartment" in their "kopeck piece". This figure is obviously false: in fact, Permians pay two or even three times less for a "kopeck piece". But where did she even come from? And it was English journalists who took the official size of the minimum "communal" in England (excluding London , of course) and converted it into rubles - so that British readers would not be upset at all.

However, the overall picture, despite these machinations, is conveyed correctly. The Daily Mail also notes a 13% income tax (as opposed to 45% in Britain), and free medicine, and low transport costs for Russians. And it turns out the obvious: in terms of the "price - quality of life" ratio, Russia, moreover, provincial, is far ahead of Britain.

Owners of agencies and financial institutions may push the UK into the top ranks of the international rankings, but the truth of life is that, as a result of the economic blitzkrieg, the Russians live better than the British and the vast majority of Europeans. It only remains for us to overtake America , as Nikita Sergeevich bequeathed.
Good luck with that, guys. Truly.
There is nothing surprising in this: our country is rich in resources, we have a luxurious agricultural industry, an educated population, a rich range of high technologies and a mobile, enterprising business that can instantly find new counterparties and establish mutually beneficial cooperation. Our only problem was that the international financial institutions rated us with obvious bias. For decades, we were underestimated, the same Britain was overestimated. But today it became clear that the English king is naked.
Ewwwwwww!! Somebody fetch the brain bleach!
The decline of the British economy is perfectly logical. Back in the 1970s, the population of the island lived very poorly. Since Thatcher's time, they have managed to inflate financial institutions, build a "service economy", and collect loans. This created the appearance of well-being. But at the very first crisis - and it began back in 2020 - all these Potemkin villages began to collapse. Anti-Russian sanctions ruined them completely.

Today, the average salary of a Londoner in the field, for example, IT, is from three to four thousand pounds per month. The bus driver - the legendary red double decker - receives about two thousand. And the average rent of an apartment in London has already crept up to 2,500 pounds - 250,000 rubles for our money. Add hundreds of pounds for transport, hundreds of pounds for food, hundreds of pounds for "communal".
What the heck is a communal?
Even if you have your own apartment, you won’t run away for an average salary. What if you pay by the hour?

The popular masses in Britain are asking a natural question: why are we, as a result of these sanctions, living worse than in Russia? This is the question that the Daily Mail carefully tries to formulate in its publication. How is that, really? We were going to punish Putin and "make Russians suffer", but as a result, for some reason, we suffer ourselves.

Russian runners-foreign agents offer to be patient for this. “You don’t have to look at your watch every five minutes, waiting for the sanctions to work,” Vladimir Milov consoles the British *. “Exercise strategic patience.”

The British can't stand it. They organize large-scale strikes, go to demonstrations, try to somehow fight. But the country's authorities continue to stubbornly starve them to death in order not to lose to Russia in Ukraine. Although, in fact, they have already lost everything, including their own people.

Posted by:badanov

#4  I don't recall the British McDonalds running out of french fries.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-03-11 15:06  

#3  Better actually.
Posted by: Dron66046   2023-03-11 08:41  

#2  her big... like it helps.
Posted by: Tarzan Snaigum6947   2023-03-11 03:33  

#1  Nearby living beery kupalka.
Seductive? Is sudsy rusalka!
Whilst washing her glass,
Lass displaying kvass,
To amusement of whole kommunalka.
Posted by: Tarzan Snaigum6947   2023-03-11 03:31  

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