Anton Gerashchenko on Bluesky story about a strike at a nuclear plant with documentation:
https://bsky.app/profile/antongerashchenko.bsky.social/post/3m56ndvbujs2i
The post contains video from the situation.
As I’ve been posting many times before, many workers in Russia are behind on payments. People working in factories being 3 months behind is not uncommon.
Anna from Ukraine explains the situation here. She is a good source IMO, because her English is excellent, and being Ukrainian she understands Russian, and makes frequent news updates about the Ukrainian war from various perspectives.
Anna Danylchuk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6EQ0ubmsIk
Inside Russia on youtube was first to report on the Russian population beginning to have had enough to a degree they are actually beginning to complain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoR5_bJywWQ
I’ve claimed before I don’t think Putin will last through the winter, and I see this as the first signs that the Russian people is about to have had enough.
The story reported by Anna and Gerashchenko tells that the workers are at least 2 months behind on wages, they were promised transportation to work, something that is important because of the lack of fuel, and public transport becoming unreliable. But they do not get the promised transportation. They were also promised 1 hot meal per day, but do not receive that either.
Finally in their homes, they are out of water and heat.
This is the economic and infrastructure collapse many have predicted was inevitable, that is now beginning to really show. And it isn’t even really winter yet!
PS: The moderators removed my previous post with false accusations, so here it is posted again according to their demands.
I really, really, really hope so. But we’ve seen so many “tomorrow guys, it’ll all come crashing down tomorrow” that we’ve become quite numb to them.
Still, definitely rooting for this.
This kind of thing goes on very slowly until it doesn’t. Collapse of Soviet Union back in the day had various events for several years contributing to the eventual total collapse but the final stage (or whatever you want to call it) took only few months. Obviously situation today is very different than back in the 90’s, but it gives at least some perspective on what might be expected.
I don’t have any idea how close the total collapse is today and I’m not sure anyone really has, but cracks are starting to show and assuming things progress like they’ve been for the last couple of years it seems like pace is definetly increasing.
I don’t think tomorrow is what most have claimed, but maybe “any time now”, which has kind of been true for the past year.
The signs have been clear for a couple of years now, that the Russian economy can’t handle the war effort against Ukraine in the long run. But the time scale is very hard to predict, if not outright impossible. But in the beginning we knew that when the war chest Putin had saved up was dry, it would only be a matter of time before the Russian economy would see a steep downturn, those early predictions have come true.
But if for instance we get an extremely mild winter, Russia might actually push through it this year too.
But the way it looks, the infrastructure is collapsing, one aspect is that Russia commonly has centralized heating plants, that supply hot water to apartments. These are often based on waste heat from electricity production. And we known in many areas they are behind on maintenance of those, which potentially can leave people without both electricity and heat.
How bad this goes is hard to predict, but we are seeing problems already, despite we are only just out of maintenance season!
The Russian economy, infrastructure and population have been stretched beyond their limits for some time now, the real question is when the parts begin to snap.
I am pretty certain this winter will do it to a big enough degree on the economy and infrastructure for the population to snap too.
The story from the power plant where the workers strike is an example of it. Remember this is GRU (KGB) country, workers don’t complain unless they have really really serious reasons to do so. If you complain you risk going to prison, and going to prison is almost like a death sentence in Russia.