Ultimate Weight Loss Scheme
Funny picture, communism as the world's ultimate scheme for losing weight. Wouldn't have seemed terribly funny to the people who experienced it of course...
Consider the Moscow sausage factory during the Soviet period. Those losers went for 70 years making sausage up out of tree bark, saw dust, dandelions, rats, mice, and pretty much everything in the world which you wouldn't want your sausage made of and, during the Soviet period, even saying anything about it would have dire consequences.
Then came glasnost and a day of reckoning. The people were up in arms. They kept about 40 cats in a room for 48 hours with water but no food and then cooked up a bunch of the Moscow sausage every possible way it could be cooked up, put all that in bowls on the floor, and opened the door and let the cats see what they thought of it and, of course, those cats were seriously hungry. All but two of the cats walked up to the stuff and sniffed, and then walked away, clearly not recognizing it as food.
Last any word of this got out to the west, the city was up in arms demanding that the sausage factory dickheads be put on trial and that the jury be 12 cats, and either they get 11 of those cats to eat the stuff or they hang the bastards. That was what that Krokodil Journal cartoon was about, which showed the two lawyers discussing strategy and talking about developing a new breed of cats (“нам придётся вывести новый пород кошек”) to try to save their clients…
Whenever I've spoken with Russians old enough that their parents or grandparents lived under the tsars, I've always asked the same question, was life in Russia worse under the tsars or under the communist (Жизнь в России была хуже под царями или под коммунистами?) ... The answer to that one always comes back the same way, that is, that life under the tsars was bad enough that it never occur to anybody could get worse, but that it didn't just get a little bit worse... After 10 or 12 years of THAT shit, people were referring tsarist times as the good old days.
I mean, the idiot communists actually engineered a famine in the Ukraine. Starving in the Ukraine is like not being able to get laid in a whorehouse. If Ukraine was ever managed properly, it could feed everybody from the Volga to the Atlantic Ocean. That in fact was Hitler's plan. Hitler was going to take Western Europe out of heavy farming; he had a scheme involving a super scale train for hauling foodstuffs from Ukraine into Europe.
Ever hear the name Pavlik Morozov/Павлик Морозов? "Little Paul" at age 14, ratted out his family for hoarding grain. His immediate family members were all executed, his grandfather killed him with an ax, and he was made into a hero of the Soviet Union. There were pioneer lagers and other Soviet youth organization buildings all over the land named after little Paul Morozov...