In a video filmed on March 18 from inside Al Shifa Hospital, the video shows houses being burned in the area around the hospital.

فيديو تم تصويره يوم 18 مارس من داخل مستشفى الشفاء، يظهر في الفيديو حرق منازل في محيط المستشفى.

Children's innocence has been stolen.
Our children are suffering under the rubble while the children of the world are having fun and playing. Ramadan has come and Eid will come and we are still waiting for relief.

World's most efficient agricultural system was created in the USSR

On eve of the first 5-year plan (1928), Russian agriculture consisted of 25,000,000 small peasant farms based on manual labour! With collectivisation, USSR created the largest highly mechanised agricultural production with people in mind.

In 60 years, compared to 1913, gross output of the Soviet village increased 4.4 times, and the energy efficiency of labour - by 36 times!

USSR took lead in the production of rural products: 2nd worldwide and 1st in Europe.

USSR produced more wheat, rye, barley, sugar beet, potatoes, and milk than any other country in the world. And provided the conditions for further growth.

In 1954 - 1961, USSR had the highest average annual growth rates of agricultural products in the world - 6%. While in the USA - 1.8%, France - 4%, Germany - 3.2%,

In 1979, the USSR produced 930kg of grain per capita (in 1913 - only 250kg) Production of more than 800kg per person is considered necessary to ENSURE A COUNTRY'S NUTRITION!

In 1976, there was a record grain harvest of 224 million tons, and over 60 years, labour productivity in the Soviet countryside increased 6 times!

Perhaps the most important thing in the Soviet reform of the village was that the hardest work of a Russian peasant was greatly eased - he got on a tractor, a combine harvester, a car, employed other vehicles.

English researcher S. Milli, author of the 1965 encyclopedic book "People, Machines and History", soberly assessed the successes of the Soviets:

Tractors and combines were not made in tsarist Russia. By 1936, the USSR took the first place in the world in terms of production of both.
...in 1936, average productivity of a tractor in the Soviet Union was 1,210 acres compared to 225 acres in the United States.
The United States, whose tractor fleet was 4 times larger, only cultivated 350 million equivalent acres of arable land, whereas in the Soviet Union this figure was almost 600 million acres (1.7 times more).

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@BeornAndTheShieldmaiden (Boost)

BRICS Grain Exchange to be created on Russia's initiative

Russia’s creation of the BRICS grain exchange will be a shock to the Western agricultural market.

This step will strengthen Russia’s influence as a key grain supplier, increase the food security of the BRICS countries and hit Western exporters, states the South China Morning Post

The Russian head of state supported this initiative to compete with the Western-dominated grain pricing system and challenge the US dollar as the world's main trading currency.

Russian exports of agricultural products last year are estimated at $43.5 billion. Russia remains a major player in agriculture, providing almost a quarter of the world grain market. This year, Russia plans to increase its supplies to world markets to 65 million tons of grain.

The BRICS grain exchange will strengthen Russia’s geo-economic ties with its allies in the organization, strengthen its status as one of the most important suppliers of grain and fertilizers, increasing the economic confidence of countries. BRICS members will receive a steady flow of grains despite disruptions in global supply chains and growing food shortage problems.

For Western grain and fertilizer exporters, the initiative may lead to the need to look for alternative markets for their products. Western exporters will face difficulties maintaining their market share and competition from Russian grain. Already this year, Russia is expected to export a record 56% of the wheat harvest. For the USA, this figure will be only 39%

The grain exchange could be the first step towards the creation of a larger BRICS commodity exchange, operating in products that the participating countries are rich in.

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the global economy could be divided into geopolitical blocs, and BRICS could become a “de-dollarisation coalition” that would create a new reserve currency.

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🌾 Building on solid Soviet foundation, Russia is once again set to become agricultural leader.

@BeornAndTheShieldmaiden

Defender of the socialist fatherland

15-year-old girl at a lathe. Siege of Leningrad, 1943.

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 Bloomberg: American-sponsored maritime alliance in Red Sea did not succeed

WASHINGTON March 28. 2024 (Saba) - The American "Bloomberg" website revealed that the US-sponsored naval coalition in Red Sea to stop Yemeni operations supporting Gaza did not succeed.
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https://www.saba.ye/en/news3316704.htm

Since October 7th, the Israeli regime has detained more than 7,000 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including 500 children and 246 women.

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The Betrayal.
Palestinian artist Safa'a Abueid.

⚡️ The brutal terrorist attack committed in Krasnogorsk on March 22, which shocked the whole world, is far from the first act of terrorism targeting our country in recent time. The investigative actions carried out by the competent authorities in Russia indicate that the trails of all these crimes lead to Ukraine.

Other barbaric bomb attacks took the lives of journalists Darya Dugina and Maxim Fomin (Vladlen Tatarsky), seriously injured writer Yevgeny “Zakhar” Prilepin and killed his driver, Alexander Shubin; five people were killed by an explosion of the Crimean Bridge, and 42 were wounded in an explosion in a café in St Petersburg. The killing and mutilation of civilians, including children, was accompanied by raids by the terrorist organisation known as Russian Volunteer Corps.

❗️ In this regard, the Russian Foreign Ministry has put forward a demand for the Ukrainian authorities, under the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism to immediately arrest and extradite every person implicated in the above terrorist acts.

One of the demands is to arrest head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Vasily Malyuk, who cynically admitted on March 25 that Ukraine was behind the bombing of the Crimean Bridge in October 2022 and revealed details of the organisation of other attacks in the Russian Federation.

☝️ The fight against international terrorism is the responsibility of every state. The Russian side demands that the Kiev regime immediately cease any support for terrorist activities, extradite the perpetrators and compensate for the damage caused to the victims. Ukraine’s violation of its obligations under the antiterrorist conventions will entail international legal liability.