They’re cookin’ up goulash, borshch, and kasha… the soldiers say that the enemy could tell their positions by the yummy smell (it spreads for metres around).
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A KP-30 field kitchen cooks meals for 30 guys.
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“I’m not a chef! I’m a COOK!” thundered Senior Cook-Instructor Vitaly Razamazov. For 15 years, he’s fed the crew of the Guards cruiser Varyag. He made his famous pea soup, stewed meat with kasha, and compote.
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Submariners get special rations, which include red wine and caviar. All ships on extended deployment receive additional allotments of kolbasa and meat.
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It only took five minutes! The cook decorated this vinagret with rosettes of carrot and pickles.
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Now, that borshch with salo… that’s GOOD EATS!
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Russian rations have 4,000 calories per day, the largest in the world.
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The standard bill of fare includes over 200 items… it includes Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Georgian national foods.
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However, the staff of life is still bread… and army bakers can still bake it under field conditions.
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Of course, the troops bitch and moan about the food (all good soldiers do)… they call it “Belka and Strelka” (two Sov dogs shot into space… it’s a Russian way of saying Ken-L-Ration). Nonetheless, they chow it down, and most of it is objectively good (just like the US mess halls… they do put out high-quality stuff… just pop in on Thanksgiving and find out).
BMD
Adapted from a piece in Komsomolskaya Pravda http://msk.kp.ru/daily/26266/3144635/
Voices from Russia 
Run on the Shops in Kiev
Tags: borshch, civil unrest, Food, Food and cuisine, Novorossiya, political commentary, politics, poster, Russia, Russian, Ukraine, Ukrainian Civil War, war and conflict
The Queue
Vladimir Nenashev
undated (2000s)
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Short vid… it’s only 26 seconds, give it a look. People are stocking up for a siege… NOT a good sign for the junta, kids.
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Rossiya-24 reported that there’s a run on the shops In Kiev. People are buying meat and vegetables as the grivna loses value daily. Farmers can’t get their products to Novorossiya anymore; therefore, they have to sell them in the capital, knocking down prices on the most popular items of the so-called “borshch set”. As for meat, it becomes more expensive every day as the currency falls. What’ll happen tomorrow? No one knows.
31 August 2014
Vesti
http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=1934014&tid=105474
Editor:
The people KNOW that war is coming to their hometown and they’re getting ready. It’s like mainland China in 1949, right before the fall of the Guomindang. Everyone knows that the powers-that-be are going down the chute, but no one knows when. By the way, “Wo ist Yuliya?” She’s still MIA and in Parts Unknown. That’s a clear sign that Yuliya Vladimirovna knows that the Ukraine is going down the shitter and she doesn’t want it to spatter her when it does. Next year, though, at this time, Yuliya will be at Saratoga, rubbing shoulders with Mary Lou Whitney and the rest of the Oh-so-Social set… after all, it’s the “August place to be”.
BMD