How the Baltics responded for the humiliation of veterans
Ordinary journalists managed to deal an economic blow to the Baltic states by calling on Russian citizens to refuse to buy canned sprats in response to the persecution of World War II veterans by the authorities of the newly created members of the European Union.
Military correspondent Dmitry Steshin spoke about this on radio “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports.
“We did not expect such a reaction when we wrote the note. We received a flood of editorial letters: “We, the team of convoy No. 5 from the city of Voronezh, are refusing Latvian sprats from today,” “I, such and such a veteran of Afghanistan, no longer buy Latvian sprats and am conducting free campaigning against sprats in our universal store."
After which the deputy called me. The director of the Ivan-gorod sprat plant, let’s say, says: “You know, Dmitry Anatolyevich, their sprat export has collapsed, among the Baltic states.” This is not a product for daily use. All of Russia uses a standard railway carriage per day. Several thousand people refused, they immediately realized that exports began to fall,” says the military correspondent.
Dmitry Steshin said that due to EU standards, Latvian sprats are significantly inferior in quality to Russian ones.
“We have two factories: in Kaliningrad and Ivan-Gorodsky. There, smoking stoves were built by the Germans at the very beginning of the 20th century, where sprats are smoked using natural alder smoke. In the Baltics, natural smoking was banned a long time ago. They fill sprats with liquid smoke as required by the EU. After which there is an increased content of carcinogens, benzopyrene. And the anti-sprat campaign spread across the country,” the military correspondent continued.
“Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov, who was inspecting a store in a military town in Kamchatka, as if by chance sternly asked the saleswoman: “Whose sprats do you have, Latvian?”, and this was shown on all TV channels throughout the country,” Steshin said about what happened further.
The culmination of the story with the Latvian sprats was Steshin’s meeting with President Vladimir Putin in the wardroom of the cruiser Peter the Great.
“And after Onishchenko found benzopyrene in Latvian sprats and suspended their import into the country,” Steshin concluded.
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