@RoadsidePicnic

They are not communists, but communists are materialists. It means that system is not ready yet, so, yes you need new smart guys, but also need some fundamental changes. And in my version it will come form resources shortage side.

Yet, some socialist guys have their smart side. Like get Venezuela hyperinflation approach - it allowed to hold rich and top middle class and not allow them to gain resources and capital. I did not understand it for long time, until I talked to some smart guys who explained how mad top 10-15% are at all this, as with such system they can't constantly increase influence and their life level for free (look at US, only in one 2020 year top 10% gained 20-40% of their level improvement, and top 1% got around 50-100%).

@RoadsidePicnic

With Venezuela is is not so hard to get.

First, remember that have most advanced sales tracking system in the world. I mean that they authenticate each sale in shop (even cash via SMS code). Russia has number one tech approach, but we still don't track cash, for cards and such it is total tracking here, I mean that I get electronic receipts and I can see all history of my purchases back to the day system started working. Such system limits ability of top 15% to corrupt the retail (and this had been extremely severe issue in USSR).

Second, they have strong distribution system for poor and normal workers. This allows to reduce influence of free market. People are not stressed and are calm, always support the ruling party.

Third, remember that basic consumption limits do not differ much from one individual to another. You can't eat 5 times as much. And you don't need 10 TVs (I personally have only 5 or 6 :-) ). This is why rich quickly need some kind of "elite" options, top designers, special services and so on.

Fourth, top middle class and capitalists gain most of their income from their capital, or their investment. And the more money they have (from total volume) - the bigger is their influence on everything. Not from working more. While lower income people spend almost all on food, children, transport and such. They don't care about savings and investing them.

Fifth, by printing lot of money and constantly pushing prices fast up government is constantly reducing part that rich are getting. As rich are barely getting any printed part, they can only live from same old capital rise. And it is very hard, it is like in Alice - you need to run extremely fast to even keep your life level now. At the same time - ordinary worker don't need to stress very much, as he has warranty that he gets all necessary goods and services and that his income will allow to get things that he is accustomed with.

In Russia, amendments were adopted to the federal law "On Counteracting Extremist Activities", which prohibit the use of attributes and images of Nazi criminals, this includes sites and any history books.

Note that the changes are actually not stupid, they are aimed to widen decommunisation (by bannning its main enemy in 20th century) and widen attack on any historic books.

Jen Psaki admits to Fox's Peter Doocy that "communism is a failed ideology" and the Cuban people "deserve freedom."

Her boss:

“Communism is a failed system - a universally failed system. And I don’t see socialism as a very useful substitute, but that’s another story,”

I have my own opinion, I think Jen Psaki and her boss deserve total freedom of hanging on the nearest tree. But somehow I am not sure they will agree for such freedom :-)

Slavery always come with decommunisation

At the beginning of each watermelon-melon season in the Kherson, Nikolaev and Zaporozhye regions, artels of harvesting workers go to the fields. Every second of them is slave.

Long before the harvest, the middlemen negotiate with the farmers on the supply of working teams for the harvest.

According to the farmers, the mediators do not particularly hide that the watermelons and melons will be collected by forced people. In turn, farmers are only interested in the price of the harvest. They pay for the number of tons of sweet berries harvested. Issues of accommodation and meals for workers are decided by the team leaders of the artels themselves.

"It is an extra headache for melon and gourd owners to independently look for watermelon collectors. There are contacts of intermediaries who recruit agricultural workers, farmers only set the scope of work and agree on payment for each centner of the harvested crop. Who and how works in the fields, nobody cares - these are problems of recruiters and senior brigades. Some of the hired labor brigades work for normal money, these are seasonal artels. But some of the watermelon collectors are slaves. In the slave brigades they work only for food and housing. Slave brigades are several times cheaper than the services of ordinary seasonal collectors "- said the farmer Yuri Kravchenko.

The organizers of slave artels usually do not post their phones on the Internet, preferring to negotiate directly with farmers. Slave artels put together in a matter of days, near the places where declassed people gather, recruiters are on duty in the summer. They offer everyone who wants to "cut down" money quickly on light field work in the Kherson and Nikolaev regions, promising good earnings, accommodation and food.

However, upon arrival at the place, the promised paradise turns into hell.

Odessa citizen Vladimir Shaklevich last fall was released by police from a slave artel. According to him, he was recruited into the artel of onion pickers by an acquaintance with whom he once served a sentence in a penal colony.

“I got out of prison, where I was trampling on a term for theft, it turned out that some people had wrested the hut a long time ago. good money - 500 hryvnia per day, and they pay daily. An acquaintance took me to the artel. When I arrived, they talked to me very kindly at first. There were fifteen people at the base, five women were. Several drug addicts, almost all of them had been in prisons before. was in huts in a forest plantation next to a field, and the food was even worse - in the morning tea and bread, at lunchtime either a stew or gruel made from fish skeletons. They took them out into the field, everyone on all fours picking watermelons. The norm is three hundred watermelons per day. This is generally unrealistic, very difficult under the scorching sun. You need to carry heavy caves to the hills, then carefully load them into cars. For each broken watermelon, a fine. day I collected one hundred and fifty watermelons, in the evening I asked for a salary, saying that I do not like this kind of work and will go home. They told me that I had not fulfilled the quota, set up the senior artels, and therefore I was not entitled to money. Moreover, I still have to stay - for food and lodging. When he got outraged, the three of them attacked, trampled, broke his ribs. They threw the beaten man into a fence made of planks with barbed wire, and tied him up for the night. In the morning they beat me again. He went out into the field to work, tried to escape. They caught up in a car, dragged and drove to the base. After that, he was chained for almost a week, beaten constantly in the morning, and others were forced to look at it. They beat me until the elders got tired of it. A month later, another escaped. They say he ran to the police and told about the lawlessness. But the cops themselves gave him up to the senior artels. They beat him to death, and then he disappeared. Maybe he died and was buried. The police released us only four months later. But there was nothing for the older artels, I know that they still recruit people as slaves and keep the artels, "said an Odessa citizen who fell into slavery.

Collapse in Ukraine

A new wave of disconnections from centralized heating has begun in Ukraine. In July, several small towns at once (in particular, Kakhovka in the Kherson region, Borislav in the Lvov region) decided to disconnect from the "pipe" - in whole or in part.

In many cities, it has become easier to give permission to disconnect people. Earlier it was very difficult to get the go-ahead from local officials for the installation of autonomous heating, but now the papers are drawn up in bundles.

The reasons for the "mass flight" from the communal apartment are on the surface - having heard about the upcoming rise in heating tariffs by 30-70%, both ordinary consumers and local authorities realized that they simply could not afford the new price tags. Therefore, they decide to be heated as it turns out - some by installing individual heating, and who - by ordinary electric heaters.

At the same time, people expect to save money - the payment for autonomous heating, according to their estimates, should almost halve.

And thermal workers and "Naftogaz" are frightening with a communal collapse. As stated recently in the NAK, a massive transition of the population from centralized heating to individual heating can lead to an overload of gas and electricity networks. What threatens them with "cutting down", accidents and other consequences.

The Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance presented a draft law aimed at decommunization on March 8 and May 1.

Superb.

The Bundeswehr ceremony in the center of Berlin near the Reichstag shocked the Germans. The torchlight procession organized by the Bundeswehr, plus the standards a la the Third Reich, reminded Berliners of the times of the Nazis.

On the eve, German soldiers celebrated 20 years of service in Afghanistan with a ceremony called the Zapfenstreich, which is the highest form of military honors in Germany (Zapfenstreich - literally "blow on beer taps"). The details of the action shocked politicians, social activists and people of culture.

Soldiers in helmets and black uniforms walked in close rows with lighted torches in their hands, and standards with eagles on their tops fluttered over their heads.

Hans-Christian Strebele, a former Bundestag member from the Green Party, said that we have before us "a militaristic ritual from Prussia and the Nazi era." ZDF presenter Jan Bömermann tweeted without diplomatic sentimentality:

“I think that the march of uniformed people with torches in front of the Reichstag is really shit. Regardless of the occasion. But these days, you cannot say it publicly. One of the main tasks of a democratic parliamentary army is to mindlessly falsify images that repeatedly traumatize the whole world. "

The financial situation of 55% of Ukrainian families has worsened over the past two years - during the presidency of Volodymyr Zelensky. This is evidenced by the results of a survey published on Thursday by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).

The majority of respondents - 55.5% - believe that the financial situation of their family has deteriorated over the past two years. 10.7% of respondents speak about improvement, and another 32.9% say that nothing has changed.

Europe - percentage of population getting not enough food for normal healthy life

“A critical shortage of coal in warehouses in a number of regions of Ukraine may lead to a mass switching off of heating at people homes ,” reads the report of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), which is referred to by the “Mirror of the week” publication.

The document submitted to the government indicates that as of December 1, there were 486 thousand tons of coal in the warehouses, with the planned value of 2.63 million tons. Thus, many thermal power plants and thermal power plants may run out of coal in the near future.

Better and better.

In Kiev, residents of a 16-storey new building heat their apartments with firewood, the Observer portal reported.

Kiev journalist Vladimir Gutsul was the first to write about this on his Facebook. "High-rise building" on wood. "While everyone is discussing gas prices and the prospects for tariffs for centralized heating, another solid fuel boiler house in an apartment building began to work in Kiev," Gutsul said.

According to him, no communications are connected to the house, except for electricity. “But there is also a plus - the residents of the house do not depend on the prices for gas and heating.

The residents of the residential complex assure that the house has a water supply and sewerage system, while it was not planned to carry gas there.

The house began to be built in 2014, apartments in it have been sold since 2016, but the developer has not completed the project. According to the documents, the new building is located on a land plot, which is considered a household plot. Last winter, residents of another residential complex from this developer were forced to switch to wood heating.

Population of Croatia and North Macedonia - genocide by capitalists