From the Mundane Luxury page.
Imagine believing soldiers would steal washing machines of all things lmao. Like just picture some guy lugging one around along with 30+ kg of gear or trying to stuff it into the crew compartment of a BTR-80 along with himself and his squadmates.
The standard issue Russian armed forces MRE has tea bags, sugar, caramel hard candies, and multiple fruit jams with crackers. Every soldier gets this every single day
What the fuck are they talking about lmao I feel like if you've got all that, chocolate is probably not that surprising at all. Like 90% of military rations in the world have chocolate
It's a classic thing against [bad country]. During the cold war they said the same shit like how bad it was that East Germans had no coffee
Well no real coffee! Only cheap powder one!!1!1 and muh no jeans and bananas as well! The horror!
Of course they didn't have as much tropical fruit, they didn't overthrow socialist governments to get it cheaper
why doesn't the larger country simply grind humans from the weaker country into dust for cheap banana? are they stupid?
They never even got to have the wonders of Nescafe
No fr I watched that decent-ish spy show from Germany set before the re-unification (literally Deutschland '83, '86 and '89) and tried to hammer home how bad it was they couldn't get the same treats that the West Germans had. The funniest part was the last season of the show where they were like "Walls are bad, Mr Trump! We should know because we're German!" in the end of season montage.
And why are we even bothering to discuss the holes in this story? It’s nothing but holes. Any one of those holes should stop the hearer short, preventing them from passing this ridiculous story along and adding their approval to it. [...] Which brings us to the interesting and complicated question: Why? Why would anyone choose to pretend to believe such preposterous and malicious falsehoods? What’s in it for them?
https://redsails.org/false-witnesses/
Also, just forgetting that even before the war Ukraine was much poorer than Russia. IIRC, the are one of the only post Soviet States to not even recover to their 1980s GDP per capita.