A glorious montage Russian police destroying a lot of banned Western food
Screengrab: YouTube
Since August 6, when President Putin's executive order to liquidate all banned Western food imports came into force, videos have been appearing online of Russian officials exploring various ways to destroy food. The authorities have dumped fowl in the trash, incinerated beef in ovens, driven tractors over apples, and crushed pears under trucks. The people behind the YouTube channel for Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance have been especially zealous, uploading several videos of food-destruction in action every day. The whirlwind of Russia's new war on illegal food can be daunting, but we at Meduza are sparing you that dizziness with the following simple collection of footage, combining into a single montage many videos showing edible imports getting crushed, dropped, bulldozed, and baked in the summer sun.
