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Tuesday, 12 August 2014
12 August 2014. A Photo Essay… There be GOOD EATS in the Russian Army!
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).
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Adapted from a piece in Komsomolskaya Pravda http://msk.kp.ru/daily/26266/3144635/
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Great Achievement of the Junta in Kherson Oblast!
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Dear Friends!
They made the world’s largest buterbrod* with salo in Kherson. Today, all of Kherson is proud of its achievement; this is a real breakthrough on the international scene. After all, what did it matter that Kherson once had some of the largest factories on the post-Soviet space or even in Europe? Right now, these factories stand idle and stripped. After the 2014 coup, the junta forced many businesses to end economic ties with Russia, so, they closed down. In 2014-15, industrial production fell to about 15 percent of its previous level in Kherson Oblast. Today, factories in Kherson Oblast that employed thousands have no new orders and slowly fall into disrepair and ruin. However, don’t despair! The leadership, together with the people of the once-glorious city of Kherson, just made the largest buterbrod with salo in the world!
In Respect,
Aleksei Zhuravko
6 June 2017
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