the Tense situation in the world causes the citizens of the anxiety that periodically comes to the border of panic. On 10 October, the public was thrilled by the news that the Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko allegedly approved rations of bread to residents of the city in case of war.
writes the St. Petersburg online newspaper “Fontanka”, at the expense of food reserves of the people of St. Petersburg guarantee the obtaining of 300 grams of bread a day for 20 days. The decision of 6 October approved the Governor Poltavchenko.
we are talking about the stockpiling of agricultural products to ensure food security of the city.
They consist of the minimum (“untouchable”) and operational reserves of grains: rye and wheat.
Under the new regulation the total amount of inventory in the next three years will be at least 69,7 thousand tons. Minimum reserves amount to 31 thousand tons. According to the journalists of “Fontanka”, this is enough to ensure Petersburgers trehlitrovuyu rations of bread for 20 days.
As noted, guaranteed twenty-day norm to provide citizens with bread is introduced for the first time. In addition, with effect from 1 January 2016, the city law does not allow reduction of the achieved level of food security.
Material could not wear shocking character, if not the title: “Poltavchenko has approved the food regulations in case of war”.
the Question of “food security”
with this header information dispersed in other media, and soon appeared in social networks troubling questions: is war on the doorstep?
to understand whether the anxiety is to go to the source: the decree of the Government of St. Petersburg from October 6, 2016 under the title “About measures for implementation of the St. Petersburg Law “On ensuring food security and support agricultural production in Saint-Petersburg”“.
it Should be noted that it is not about making a completely new document, but modification of existing ones.
the law “On ensuring food security and support agricultural production in Saint-Petersburg” States: “food security — the state of the economy and social sphere of St. Petersburg is achieved food security of the population of St. Petersburg and the guaranteed physical and economic availability of agricultural products, raw materials and basic foodstuffs conforming to the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation on technical regulation, subject to rational norms of food consumption”.
“Regional food Fund of St. Petersburg state reserves of agricultural products, raw materials and food, which is the property of Saint-Petersburg used to ensure the immediate needs of St. Petersburg and carrying out of measures on stabilization of commodity market of St. Petersburg, consisting of the minimum and operational inventory.”
“Minimum stock regional food Fund of St. Petersburg — the minimum allowable margin of the main types of agricultural products, raw materials and food used to ensure the urgent needs of St. Petersburg and carrying out of measures on stabilization of commodity market of Saint-Petersburg”.
“NZ” for the city on the Neva river
noteworthy is the fact that nowhere in the document does not mention the word “war”. He’s not in the resolution, approved October 6, 2016.
the One item which has caused the greatest excitement, is: “1.3. Amend paragraph 3.1 of regulation 1 with the following paragraph: “the Volume of minimum reserves shall be not less than 20-day volume Food facility approved by the Government of St. Petersburg for corresponding year and the planned period””.
Having data relating to the approved minimum volume of grain reserves, the twenty-day period and the population of St. Petersburg, the journalists received trehmatchevuyu bread ration “in case of war”.
it is Necessary to understand that such information is the willies from many, especially the residents of the city that survived the siege.
But the fact is that the appearance of the city bread “NC” for a fixed number of days does not mean preparation for military action.
Stock up on “extreme case” may be required during disasters and in emergency situations a non-military nature, and in the event of a supply crisis.
Connoisseurs of history will easily remember that the crisis of grain supply in Petrograd in February 1917 was the cause of the riots, which resulted in the February revolution. The bread in the country was, but because of problems with transportation in the capital of the Empire he had not received.
in Itself the appearance of a fixed twenty-day period rather speaks of empowerment in the creation of reserves for “extreme cases” than the fact that this case has already arrived.
One of the most common myths about the great Patriotic war States that the cause of hunger in besieged Leningrad was the destruction Badaevsky warehouses. It’s true: stocks that were stored there, could provide the city in a very short period of time. A major metropolis is ensured not at the expense of the strategic reserves, but due to the regular supply.
Who actually cooks the reserves in case of war,
Those who still can not calm down after the St. Petersburg “bread war”, it is necessary to recall the existence of such an organization as the Federal Agency for state reserves (Rosrezerv).
this organization is responsible for the formation, storage and maintenance of stocks of state material reserves, designed to ensure the mobilization needs of the Russian Federation, urgent works at liquidation of consequences of emergency situations, rendering of the state support to various industries, organizations, entities of the Russian Federation to stabilize the economy with temporary violations of supply of key resources and food, humanitarian assistance and the provision of regulatory impact on the market.
“Provision of mobilization needs” — this is what in common parlance is called “in case of war”.
the history of this body leads from 17 October 1931, when the decree of people’s Commissars of the USSR established the Committee reserves under the Council of Labor and Defense. The management Committee reserves the mobilization reserves, located in different institutions and enterprises, as well as mobilization and public grain funds that were previously under the people’s Commissariat for supplies.
From that moment to this day structure, now called the reserve, is continually forming, storing and maintenance of reserves, including bread.
How much and what is actually currently stored in the Reserve is a state secret. But it is known that the accumulated reserves shall, if necessary, to meet the needs of the army, entered the war and the civilian population, within a few months.
This work never stops, regardless of what happens: detente or a new cold war.
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