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Bought Almost All Export Rye From Russia
by
Ruslan Ostashko
28
Oxtober, 2018
Latvia
showed by its own example that the Russophobe only squeaks about the
“damned Muscovites” while it still has something to eat. As soon
as the food runs dry, he is immediately ready to skip to Russia,
buying almost all the export rye.
Right
now, after a rather long period, the behavior of the same Latvians
who buy rye from Russia looks very strange.
Sputnik
news: “Latvia bought almost the entire export volume of Russian rye
in the 2018-2019 agricultural year, which began in July. Of the 110.9
thousand tons, 88.99 thousand tons were supplied to the Baltic
republic, the Rosselkhoznadzor reports.”
In
this blatant step from the point of view of the Latvian “patriots”,
Riga was pushed by a record crop failure that befell the local
farmers.
“In
Latvia this year, due to a long dry period, the rye harvest was
significantly lower than the average – by 30-50%. At the same time,
in 2018, an anti-record of rye crops was achieved in the last 18
years – only 5% of the total area of grain fields. Such a “double
blow” compels Latvian flour millers to buy rye abroad. Due to
drought, the grain harvest in Latvia in 2018, compared with 2017, is
projected to be 23% less, including 33% less wheat, 30% more barley,
oats 47% more, rapeseed 26% less.”
That
is, if Russia did not sell grain to Latvia, then rye bread would have
to be replaced with oatmeal, because the proud Baltic republic
gathered an excess of oats.
A
question arises: why did the Latvians, offended by the damned
communist regime, decide to buy rye from Russia? After all, they are
sitting in the EU, there are no internal customs barriers, the
agrarian sector of the European Union, if taken as a whole, blooms
and smells good. Then what is wrong? The answer is obvious – in
Russia it is cheaper to buy it. European farmers work for a
full-fledged euro, whereas our agricultural producers work for
cheaper rubles, therefore this is clearly about economics, which as
it’s known, should be saving costs.
But
then the second question arises: what about political expediency?
After all, all the nonsense that the Latvian authorities are doing,
starting from the end of the 80s of the last century and up to the
present time, is dictated solely by this expediency. What, when it
comes to the stomach, the expediency doesn’t really stand in the
way? Exactly like that, my friends.
No,
I do not say that our farmers sold rye to the Latvians in vain. I
support the domestic producers, and, of course, let them earn the
money. But here I would put special prices in their place for Latvia.
Yes, lower than in the EU, but not by much, but so that the benefit
for the Balts would be minimal. They would still buy it anyway.
And
also – our people would receive deep moral satisfaction,
emphasizing that this price is specifically for those who prohibit
the Russian language. But if you don’t want it, don’t take it, we
have Arabs and Indians waiting in line. They will rip it from your
hands.
You
can’t, just can’t sell food to Russophobes at the same price as
our normal partners. The Russophobe must be hungry, and he must know
that this sucking feeling on an empty stomach was led by the previous
tumultuous activity on the basis of hatred of Russia.
By
the way, buying rye still won’t save Latvia from extinction. And
when the last Latvian dies from alcoholism or goes to Britain for
permanent residence in Britain, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if
our so-called western “partners” concoct the myth that this
cursed Moscow has changed the climate over Latvia, causing crop
failures in order to cause the Baltic Holodomor. Seriously, you’ll
see. After all, in Ukraine, this had such a success, so why not
repeat it in the Baltics?
And
the Latvian plumber will sit at his leisure and count the damage that
was caused to his extinct republic and to him personally by these
terrible Russians. They will next count billions, like the Estonians…
… And
next, they will try to fall asleep, feeling an unpleasant movement in
an empty stomach.
Graham W Phillips
