Russian raclette
SOVIET news programmes were often recently filled with cheerful reports of ever-greater harvests, even as store shelves remained stubbornly empty. Modern Russia’s shops are full, but its news broadcasts recently have been dominated by ugly images of the destruction of food smuggled into Russia from behind the lines of “the enemy”—Europe, America and their allies.
Stone-faced presenters report victories on many fronts: hundreds of tonnes of peaches and tomatoes pulped by bulldozers, meat burned at supermarket doors, cheeses incinerated in a “Russian fondue”. A young reporter cheerfully chucks a head of cheese under the chains of a tractor. On August …read more
Source: The Economist
