Comments by "Henning Bartels" (@henningbartels6245) on "Why Western brands are still found in Russian supermarkets despite sanctions?" video.

  1. Milk prices have risen in Germany do to agrar-politics, better payment to famers and higher enviromental standards and higher standards for cattle keeping. There is no relation to Russia. Strangly butter prices even dropped.
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  2.  @arnolsi  Wake up and watch carefully. each year fruits and vegetables are very expensive around this time of the year. Gardners call May the "hungry gap". The new crop hasn't fully grown yet ... only the more expensive one in green houses - and the rest from last year's harvest is becoming costly in the storing facilities.
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  3. Ruzzia makes it very hard currently to love it.
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  4. The pity is that many Russians care more for coke prices than to show some emphaty for people in Ukraine.
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  5.  @notelduderino6243  they probably laughted out loud after telling you this story. I wonder where they went with the train? Food related items in Germany are usually very well priced compared to neighboring countries. You could argue about the quality: that cheese is better in France or fruits are better in Italy, but not the prices. Only in neighboring Poland and Czechia food items could be cheaper. Maybe this were students from Berlin who could travel for free on the train to Poland and have nothing to do and don't mind the extra hours travelling.
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  6.  @bidjo666  thank you for your thoughtful, explanatory as well as rhetorically precious comment!
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  7. Why do not start fighting nazis within Russia first before attaking other countries?! How do you fight nazis by bombing kindergartens and appartments and causing millions to flee? How does a granate knows in which appartment a nazi lives. This "nazi" stuff is the lamest excuse for this geopolitical aggression. BTW, the NATO is an military defense organisation and has nothing to do with economy. Sanctions are not a military tool. The EU on the other hand is also an economic community and as such they decided on sanction, because the are outraged about the devastation and killing in Ukraine.
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  8.  @ДаданДаданский  the prices shown in the video are comparable to German prices, maybe even a bit more expensive. But saleries and pensions are at least twice of those in Russia.
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  9. apparently they recently changed the law ... which makes it hard to avoid the "drafting letter". The mobilization can now be done in digital ways ... and therefore also apply to people leaving the country , for example if checked at a border control.
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  10. Plus, there is no "real" bread in the UK 😂
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  11. I don't know, what the message of the video is. Making light hearted shopping tour in a well heated supermarket and making fun of the hypocrisy and ineffectness of sanction while people dying in Ukraine or sitting without drinking water, heat and food in their basement. The luck of empathy in Russia to the real victims of this war is shocking again and again in those videos.
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  12.  @Spielername  20% is not "sky rocket". Yes prices increased, but very differently according to the kind of product. Plus saisonal price difference have to be considered as well. Compared to the price increase of building materials in latest years - the food increase is rather moderate.
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  13. their country?! ... but also their people???.... they love there political opposition so much that thy want them save behind bars. ... and they love there young men so much that they turned already 200,000 of them into dead cannon fodder. yes, so much love and respect!!1!!!!1
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  14.  @donalkinsella4380  Russia is not a great exporter except for fossil fuels and wappons.
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  15. ... win a ticket to The Hague!?!
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  16. How did they support nazi Germany?
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  17. what has the US or EU to do with Russians buying all kinds of coke?
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  18. 😂🤣
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  19. Hypocrites are those who speaking of brotherly nations and then bomb people in Ukraine.
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  20. How could you like the rotten decadent western mustard flavour?! Aren't there no patriotic crisps in Z-shape available?!?
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  21.  @MrSnakesti  well, there is still a difference: I've already seen Solowjow screaming his propaganda about rotten decadent westerners f*cking turtles on Russian tv. Yet I haven't seen western tv telling stories about Ukranian Babies flavored chips.
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  22. Well observed.
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  23.  @MrSkoresh  you didn't get his point. It was not about the interior and the selection of the supermarket but about how it is filmed. If you see how anxious people in street interviews react in Russia just concerned not to say anything wrong in front of a camera then you get an idea.
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  24.  @MrSkoresh  the channel 1420 is only one example of interviews of ordinary Russians on the street: https://youtube.com/@1420channel
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  25.  @MrSkoresh  the channel 1420 (also in comparison to street interviews in Ukraine) it gives the impression: - that the majority don't even want to answer at all - some people formulate their answers in complicated manner because they are afraid saying something wrong - people are aware that run in trouble or of the jail sentence critiques recieved recently - often they answer they would be "apolitical" Many analysts see these apolitical people as the base of Putlers power and the luck of political progress in Russia.
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  26. I'm pretty sure that Coca Cola changed the recipe over the decades and there are coca leaves in it. Beside it is the easiest to import flavour concentrate and just add Polish water to and fill it in bottles in Poland.
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  27. Why should fellow western citizens feel like idiots? They feel rather sorry for the people in Ukraine who are the victims and really suffering under the agression of the RuZzian admistration ... and they couldn't care less about what name the coke has, Russians are so eager to drink.
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  28. What has Auchan to do with Russian troops killing people in Ukraine?
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  29. The high morals don't help Russian women much. Russia has very high rates of domestic violence and enormous numbers of women killed by their husbands/partners every year.
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  30.  @ziggy8244  ... and easier to beat up with almost no legal consequences in Russia.
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  31. when talking yourself into "feeling great" is the only thing what is left...
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  32.  @Biboran.  who is brought terror zu Butcha, Mariupole or Bakhmut? Prise of a coke in Russia - 1 $ . Surviving a Russian airstrike in Ukraine - priceless.
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  33. who is the little nazi? Putler?!
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  34.  @НоутбукИисуса  do you know me? I guess, you draw conclusions based on yourself...
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  35. Unlike in besieged villages in Ukraine.
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  36.  @КошачийВайб  march 2022 - that sounds more like panic buying than any connection to sanction. Well, apparently first aid material amoung Russian troops is not well orginased and mobilised soldiers are advice to take some feminine hygiene products with them when they are going to be cannon fodder in Ukraine. It could help with injuries and stop bleeding.
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  37. ​ @RealReporter  those corporations just want set publicly a sign that they don't support the aggression war of the Russian state against Ukraine - nothing more, nothing less. They don't have the ability and resources to control if their products are reimported via third countries or renamed. Propaganda driven, patriotic Russians are free NOT to buy these products from the "rotten West". Or they are free to put little protest notes among the price tags, get denunciated and go 8 years to jail. Maybe the last is a topic worth talking and reporting about when it comes to Russian supermarkets?!
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  38. Trusting an imperialistic aggressor is even worse.
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  39. William, if your moral values are lower, hypocrisy seems not as dramatic. It is logical that "Western countries" stand out.
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  40. I wonder what kind of levels would that be?!? I can't think of any ... except it is already the largest country in the world (Therefore no need to grab more land)
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  41.  @rusername 1. if you don't use your brain before writing, just don't reply. 2. Yes, these region also voted overwhelmingly for an independent Ukraine in the 90's.
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  42. Poor people in Russia can not effort expensive wines and imported cheese anyhow. They have to stick to local bread and vodka and self grown veggies from the garden.
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  43. "gender confused psychos" is exactly the stuff Putler says in his speeches. And actually I do have beef with this guy ordering to attack Ukraine and killing people there.
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  44. What I don't understand: why are all these Russian patriotic masses who dearly support their war leader are still eating and drinking these repackaged products from Nato countries or knockoffs made to rotten western recipe. If I was a good Solowjow viewer I would only eat kasha 3 times the day!!!1! And no Borscht because it is a fascist dish!!!11!! But anyhow, the prices were slightly higher than in Germany - which hard to wrap your head around it since salaries and pensions are not even half the German standard in Russia.
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  45.  @AleksKaverin  there is no Auchan in Germany...unfortunately. Well it is hard to know what to which market to compare it to? I have no feeling if the grocery store in the video was more expensive or of better quality for Russian conditions. It seems large though. Surprisingly the prices he mentioned sounded very familiar to me. Though I have to admit he said $ and I remember € prises. So it can be that the Russian prides are actually 10 % cheaper. When it comes to basics like milk, eggs or apples - there is not much difference if you to an discount Aldi or a larger Kaupfland. The larger non-discount markets differed rather in products with higher quality like cheese and wine.
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  46.  @tdrs1765  priceless for who?
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  47.  @tdrs1765  but this is universal: even in e.g. Romania you should compare wages to prices
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  48.  @tdrs1765  interesting.
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  49. they more or less were on this way anyhow, but saleries and pensions were and still are a fraction of those in the EU.
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  50. In Germany to be cut off from Russian fossil fuel speeded up the transition to more renewables and sustainable heating methods. Okay, the process is a bit pumpy, but after all a meaningful process regarding climate change.
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  51.  @Raghetiel  to be honest, (regardless of the war in Ukraine) people in Germany are tired of global brands and rather buy locally produced version of coke or other sodas. This trend has been existing for years. Anyhow, "Apfelschorle" - a mixture of carbonated apple juice with mineral water is the nation favourit when it becomes to refreshments (beside plain carbonated water and beer).
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  52. David, so why do good patriotic, Putler supporting Russians buy these overpriced products made to rotten Nato recipes?!??
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  53. well ... RuZzians are not the victims here - because of them Ukrainian sit in the basement without drinking water and electricity ... and no chance to go outside shopping for cheese and ice cream or otherwise they got shot.
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  54.  @ПавелНестеров-е5я  questin? sentence? meaning?
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  55.  @RealReporter  Danish prices and Danish level of VAT is not standard in Europe.
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  56. as a European I could care less what weird name coke has in Russia and why Russian buy these unhealthy drinks. Should I be concerned about the Russian diet and health?, when RuZzians don't even care about lives and health in Ukraine at all?!?
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  57. I wonder what is worse: Western hippocrasy ... or Russian bombs?!?
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  58. How dare of them to buy and eat this rotten, western food according to unholy transformer recipes and not patriotic kasha 3 times a day!!1!!!
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  59.  @sovushka-solovushka  ist really depends - for some low income families there is not much left. But the average person does save up some money. The biggest problem for example in Germany is, with the saved up money you cannot afford to build a house or buy an appartment. These prices went up so much that it is impossible for many to pay for it even if they do it in rate payments over 20 years.
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  60. where do you see swastikas in Kiyv? I guess, you have no problems believing Russian propaganda ... so why do you care about rotten-western-fascist products at all?? Wouldn't it be more patriotic to only eat Russian produced kasha 3 times a day?!?
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  61.  @ПавелНестеров-е5я  I can freely breath air without Ruzzian explosives in it here. I don't have to worry about being patriotic toward Putler. I really don't want conditions people in RuZzia have to cope with ... and nobody deserve the conditions RuZzia puts people in Ukraine into.
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  62.  @ПавелНестеров-е5я  🤣🤣 Heaven forbids!!! I'm happy to live in a country which has fortunatly overcome imperialism, fascism and communism. In RuZzia you would have all three at ones.
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  63.  @ПавелНестеров-е5я  I'm not sure if I would call Putler and his clique mafia. no way ; I would like to live in Ruzzia right now and become cannon fodder. I'm also disappointed from the ordinary Russians showing so little emphaty for the suffering of their "brotherly" people in Ukraine.
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  64. 50% ... it's pretty nonsense. 20% the most. some increases are related to to higher energy cost other are not and and the situation is only used by companies to implement a long planned price raise. Some price increase is also due to higher production standard, e.g. for milk. and some is due to the labour shortage Germany experiences.
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  65.  @tahaak  it is hard to follow what you have done, since tomato paste could be also 0,69€ or 0,89€ at Rewe. Sliced ceese depends on the kind of cheese and the package size - but there are also packages for 1,79€. Cucumbers in winter are more expensive than summer. Milk is usually 1,15 € to 1,30€ now - but often from free grasing cows with pruduction cost now. Milk prices were on the rise since the beginning of 2020 when the milk price were at lowest in the last decades. I would rather trust official statistics and the German consumer organisation who mention 20%.
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  66. If you really want to get an overdosis of lies I would rather advice to watch Russian tv, especially shows with Solowjow.
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  67. Oh, poor Ruzzians!!1! Those evil Ukrainians sitting in their basements with with detonations outside and no drinking water will cause to make Coke more expensive in Russian supermarket!!1!!! How dare of them to do that during a power blackout!!1!!1!
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  68. could that be rather connected to Brexit - than Russia invading Ukraine?! Just asking....
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  69. "100x more than Russia" - what kind of nonsense is this? prices on the gas station were high before due to the German taxes.
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  70.  @newskooter6463  I you would stop smoking and educate yourself you would realize that biggest portion of the gas prices in Germany are taxes. And yes, in Moscow they don't pay German taxes, duh!
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  71. Excaliber, I'm not worry about the ordinary people of Russia. They should have enough of their own produce and not drinking coke is not the worst thing which could happen. I'm sympathic with the people in Ukraine who sit in basements without proper drinking water and little food while outside you can hear granates. What happend to the "ordinary people of Russia" - why is there so little emphaty for the ordinary people in Ukraine?
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  72. "Россия за мир" is not very convincing currently and comes across as hollow words and platitudes.
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  73. So how much can you spend for food then every month?
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  74.  @n.nowgorodl.gusakow5812  thanks. Many see just purely the food prices in Russia, but don't watch it in relation what people earn and have to pay for rent, therefore what it's ultimately left to spend for food.
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  75. what do you miss in Poland what you can't buy?
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  76. 🤣😂🤣 ... and plagues will come and children will be eaten by the devil!!111!
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  77. Where is the connection between Russia's war in Ukraine and egg prices in the US?!?
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  78.  @feedupamerican.7146  I can't see any connection, since American chicken are not fed with Russian wheat or Russian coke. Price increase, inflation could have had totally other reasons and are not related to the war. In Europe some prices for eggs and dairy increased in connection to higher energy prices, but also due to the raise of enviromental standards and standards for animal husbandry.
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  79.  @feedupamerican.7146  Just to be clear: I can read - otherwise I could not answer to your comment. But in order to read about any connections you have to write them first ... not afterwards. To be clear on another thing: Putler is not responsible for the pandemic! You gave away a clue yourself how little connection to the war in Ukraine there exist by stating that prices had been rising for four years. The war in Ukraine just lasts one year. I live in Germany an egg prices have been increasing by ca. 10 % annually for years and that before and after the begin of the war. There was a steeper increase in March 22 but the curve flatten soon after in May 22 and is now in the average range. I guess, it is easy to blame some sanctions for the own unlicky situation but the reality is less black and white.
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  80. well, even after decades of capitalism, people in Russia earn a fraction of the saleries and pensions in the US.
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  81. that is strange! Around the corner in Germany butter is currently 1.5 Euro and eggs 2.5 Euro.
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  82. everything fine ... except people die in Ukraine - among them also young Russian men.
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  83. what RuZzia currently does in Ukraine is not very glorious. Ordinary Russians should be ashamed...
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  84. so, being clearly hostile, aggressive and imerialistic against neighboring contries as RuZzia does is better than any hypocrisy in your opinion?!?
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  85. Backfired on who?
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  86. You know who don't care about people dying in Ukraine and infrastructure being destroyed? It is foremost Putler who gives orders to invade, attack and bomb. He doesn't even care for a whole generation of young Russian men being cannon fodder with 200,000 already dead. Presenting "western" media as the cause for this war is truly hypocritical indeed.
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  87. can you?
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  88. What is this whole coke thing about? Is drinking coke really that popular in Russia? I would not miss anything if my grocery store would run out of coke.
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  89.  @ТристанГилэм  thanks. Here in Germany carbonated apple juice is the nations favorite ... followed by carbonated water and beer. That's way I'm asking. There are also local brands of coke, too, which might taste differently to CocaCola, because to Germans American soda is overly sweet. In the first frame Kostantin stands infront of a huge shelf full of "AlpenGold", which is obviously a German name, but I've never seen this chocolate brand before.
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  90. What about adding some witch or a wolf to the story?!
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  91. Social Ghost is right :official sanctions and private companies pulling out of the Russian market are like apples and oranges ... two different things. It was the decision of those companies to pull out, shut down or rename - because they don't want to be associated with an aggressive, imperialistic war of Russia against Ukraine.
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  92. strange! so why are the shelves full of these Western products and brands, when all the "good" patriotic, Putler supporting RuZZians don't need and buy those rotten western products?!?
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  93. well, this "western hypocrisy" is like poodle against the war related Russian hypocrisy dragon.
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  94.  @edhiepitz  Invading Ukraine with the excuse of "fighting nazis" but care a little about nazis inside Russia and even employing them in some Wagner troops etc. or... talking about how they "care" for the Russian people, but then letting 200,000 young men die as cannon fodder. or ...how they want to "liberate" cities like Mariupol or Bakhmut by turning them into rubble just to name a few example...
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  95. I guess, the straight ...honest ...Eastern (Ruzzian) killing of people in Ukraine is much better than hypocrisy !!11!1!!111
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  96.  @pokbo  why should I cry about hypocrisy? Who cares?
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  97. how can a pensionist afford these prices?
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  98.  @Streleny  well, we don't know the grocery prices in China to compare.
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  99. ​ @army_2692  I thought iPhones are produced in China? I don't get the concept of throwing them away...
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  100. So, with less and less consumers in Ruzzia - the prices should decrease?
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  101. 75-80 cents for a dozen sound way to cheap: I makes you wonder about the standards how to keep chicken in the States.
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  102. why would these corporation have some interest in war ... it just makes it all more difficult. Those people who think otherwise, also believe in mermaids and unicorns.
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  103.  @sovushka-solovushka  out of curiousity, the numbers for salaries you gave is this before or after taxes?
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  104. I'm German and don't care about coke no matter the price. A Europe without war and imperialism is priceless.
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  105.  @Protector_Bro  pretty much.
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  106. there are more important things in life than coke - for example the life itself... or even democracy. Debating about the taste or price of coke feels so secondary to what concerns the people in Ukraine.
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  107.  @Protector_Bro  this video is about sanctions and western companies leaving Russia due to it's war of agression against Ukraine. Those people in Ukraine sitting in the basement or bomb shelters for days without drinking water ... or with polutated drinking water due to Ruzzia blowing up a water damm ... they would like to have a choice what to drink, too ...and just want to have a peaceful life despite being born in a "wrong" place.
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  108. What "western media" you are talking about? And lying about what? Here in Europe media reports about the devastations in Ukraine; nobody cares about Russian supermarkets and which name butter in Russia has. The EU hardly imports food from Russia. The only thing what hurt European market is that Russia stopped their exports of fossil fuels to western Europe. Plus the fact that Russia destroyed infrastructure in Ukraine which makes the Ukrainian production and exports of wheat and oil seeds difficult.
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  109. They are a little bit cheaper than in Germany but for people who dont even earn half or a third of the income.
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  110. intesting conspiracy theory? self-made or from some-one else?
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  111. meanwhile in Bachmut: having drinking water and not drinking from a rain puddle - priceless.
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  112.  @arnolsi  Egg prices are the highest before Easter. If you want to compare prices you to look at longterm statistics and not seasonal price differences ... and not wonder why fruits are expensive in spring and heating oil more expensive in winter.
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  113.  @arnolsi  poor you - here it's 1,99 or 2,50 when apple are in saison. But you are right- I never buy apples - because I have so many in my own garden and from friends. Only the time now from June to July I#m out of them.
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  114.  @Camnio1  softdrinks almost doubled? ... I guess I haven't noticed that. So a fizzy 1, 5 litre lemon lemonade which use to be 0,79 is now 1,49? hard to believe.
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  115.  @joek600  actually I never buy coke, neither coca cola, pepsi or others - so I don't Know, though Coca Cola could be 1,35 € in Germany - and off brand just 0,59 €
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  116.  @joek600  yeah, juice got more expensiv ... the nation's favorite here: apple juice used to be around 1 Euro , but it's hard to find for tthis price nowadays - rather 1,30.
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  117.  @boonamai8926  I bet you didn't get the topic of this thread. Too busy doing clowns games instead of reading?
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  118.  @hansusedom2491  "Butterbrot" ist ein falscher Freund im Russischen, denn es ist dort ein belegtes Sandwich. Dennoch hast du recht, die Milchpreise sind auch gerade um 15 Cent gefallen.
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  119.  @DaKoRTE17  wenn man sich von Pringles ernährt... 🤣😂
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  120.  @theweb3182  never heard of that - they are still looking for employees in many fields in Germany.
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  121.  @sourcedasher  how could someone produce, package, distribute and sell a pizza for 59 cent?!?
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  122.  @bullshitdepartment  the alias name obligates...
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  123.  @sourcedasher  it is not sustainable... and therefore good that it stopped.
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  124.  @sourcedasher  you're right: it's my fault that you write all this stuff!!!!1!11!!1!!😅🤣
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  125. what is "Ukropium"? is this Wladimir Göbbelsowitsch Solowjow speak?
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  126.  @ТимофейБутняков-м3п  all riddles to me.
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  127. Who is "Ukraine"? This is not a single person. Activists who set up a webpage for name-shaming companies might not be the military staff ordering diesel.
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  128. Roman, ... and at the same time millions in Russia buy this stuff from the rotten west and made by aggressive Nato recipes!!1!!!
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  129. so years of Russian propaganda about the rotten, decadent and morally wrong West, Westerb livestyles and wrong freedoms - just let to to Russian consumers by imitated Western products. Interesting.
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  130. How did IKEA do this without the Russian customer?
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  131. Salaries and pensions are way less, too! Great, isn't it?!
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  132. Who are these "people"?
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  133.  @lilacer6841  Because it attackes neighbouring countries, destroys entire settlements and kills people who just want to live in peace there. That's why!
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  134. bombing Ukrainian children is pathetetic humanity.
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  135. It is the people in Ukraine who are suffering. Period.
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  136.  @rusername  Everything is fine for the those people who were drafted?!? Don't get your point....
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  137.  @rusername  have you been to Ukraine recently?
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  138. If it is sooo easy for Russian companies to produce the same stuff, then why they haven't done this in the last 30 years? ....and instead costly imported these products.
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  139. Yasty, Putler has been planning this war for years. Why didn't he support local producers more?? I was surprised to see so many Western products at all, since he has been campaining against EU imports for years from chicken to who knows what...
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  140. Just don't buy it - it is not a drug.
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  141. people in Ukraine LOOSE their lifes - let's not forget about it.
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  142. and has this to do with a supermarket video?
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  143. you always have to consider what the locals earn in these other countries.
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