Tucker Carlson Visits Russian Grocery
Store, Discovers Americans Have Been Told
a Lie (Video)

That the cart total was less than the estimates by TC & Co.didn't ring the bell on how US influence has restricted their supply chain. No where was it mentioned what the average Russian income was or if they have welfare/assistance for basic needs, so how do we extrapolate that it's not hard for them to provide for their families? It's not that I don't believe the discovery by him that 'sanctions' aren't detrimental to the everyday quality of life there, but the video & it's outcome felt lacking. Fill in the blanks, please.

This misinformation is the result of a propaganda media that reports what the government tells them and does little investigation on their own. The dems want the image of a disciplined and hurting Russia to make it seem that the incompetent Biden's administration is effective. They tell their media lapdogs the story to report and that is what is on the news. It is clear that US policy makers do NOT understand Russia. The Deep State is full of idiots. None of this truth makes Putin a good guy and Russia our friend. All it means is that we DO NOT KNOW OR UNDERSTAND RUSSIA. How can effective policy be planned when the planners are clueless. If we need to fight Russia, we need to REALLY understand them to fight effectively. The liberal bureaucrats are clueless and dangerous, EXACTLY why they should NOT be in charge of policy.

And Tucker, was that a grocery store for ordinary folk or 'elites'? And could you have been led to that particular store for duplicitous misinformation?

I know, number three. It's almost like the Gateway Pundit author has never heard of a Potemkin village.

I don't doubt Russia is not a bed of roses for everyone. The US isn't either. I don't doubt that Tucker might have been misled. It has happened both here and there before. BUT what I KNOW is our media lies about everything all the time with one goal in mind, our subjugation to the Globalist cabal that wants to turn us all back into serfs. "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy", that wasn't Putin, that was our very own Western dominated, jetting into Davos WEF leaders. As a side note, I also found it interesting that Putin banned almost all GMO's in the food chain 3 years ago. Can you imagine the powers that be here ever allowing such to happen? Nah. Too much money and corruption.

There are other videos on YouTube of people shopping in Russia. Few things are in short supply. One guy said Pringles potato chips are hard to find though. Apparently, Pringles are quite popular throughout Eastern Europe.

Typical Moscow tourist "expertise". Try traveling to the hinterlands a bit. Go to Ekaterinburg, or Vladimir, or even smaller cities. St. Petersburg and Moscow get the cream of the country in everything. The oligarchs live there, and they get ANYTHING they want. I saw more Ferraris and Maseratis and Lambos in Moscow than any place in the USA. The thug business stealing all the money of a giganitic country is very lucrative....if you stay alive. Oligarchs are literally mob gangster bosses, and make no mistake, Putin is the top gangster. Yes, in Moscow even in the 80s and 90s, you could go to GUM, right on Red Square, and get all the luxury items, always. I have shopped in GUM many times, had a nice lunch there, etc. It's like the ritziest Rodeo Drive Beverly Hills neighborhood...huge, huge shopping center of dozens of stores under one giant series of glass tunnel roofs. The Moscow folks live well. In the smaller cities, the primary buildings are old rotting log cabins, and in the small towns, it very rapidly deteriorates to what you saw in those documentaries of Ap or train to the smaller cities and towns. Even Krasnoyarsk, out in the middle of Siberia, hours east of Moscow by plane, has a very nice city center, but ten miles out....log cabins again. They invented the term Potemkin Village and are experts at it.

Oh and one little detail, the grocery store brand he went to was an Auchan (you can see the name on the grocery cart handle in the Russian characters AwaH), a brand based in Croix, France. We have been to a few in France. They are nice but not luxury by any means.

Sorry....something chopped up my post. Should have been: and in the small towns, it very rapidly deteriorates to what you saw in those documentaries of Appalachia in the Depression, literally. Dirt streets, horse wagons with car tires instead of the old wooden wheels, but lots of that stuff in the hinterlands. People often live a mile or three out of town in a really grim place, and walk a half a mile to a trolley line to ride into a smaller city where it is fairly normal life, paved streets, masonry buildings, etc. Lots of the housing stock is old log cabins and many have no car or a ancient Zhiguli, a 1970s Fiat model, built in Russia, and I think still in production, or just out of production for a rew years.

Regardless of what the truth at be regarding Russian supermarkets, what’s indisputable is how Biden’s policies have had a devastating effect on American food prices.

I remember watching video of Russians waiting in line for toilet paper and so-called grocery stores selves completely empty. The Russians in most cases looked like homeless people with every piece of clothing they owned was on their backs.

Oh Tucker, you are such a sap.

I have been to Moscow. It has been a few years, but Moscow is a very wealthy city with very expensive restaurants, bars and hotels. Very opulent. I went to multiple grocery stores. All very well stocked with anything you would want to buy. I understand some of the regions are very poor, but not Moscow. So, from my own real life personal experience, Tucker is absolutely telling the truth.

Russia does better for its people than the old USSR. For instance, Russian homes spend 27% of their income on foods and drinks. Before joe we spent 6.4% of household expenditures on food and drinks, now it is much higher, over 29%.

Tucker ain't no Walter Duranty and Fox ain't no New York Times. Putin is for Russia. Trump is for US. And those that control Biden and the majority of Congress are not of,or for us... No more money for unwinnable endless wars US out of NATO. US out of the UN. Closed the damn border. UN out of the US.

Captain Obvious says: "Biden is printing money and giving it to people who didn't earn it, in addition to restricting our supply of good and services. Citizens have to pay for that. It isn't hard to figure out." We can argue about conditions in Russia, but as a citizen and a consumer, I see the results of disastrous democrat policies here first hand.

#3, do you really suspect that Tucker is that naive or stupid?

I, too, have been to Russia, but in 1979 with a group of Operating Room Nurses for several weeks. We were in Moscow, Kiev, Baku, Tbilisi and Yerevan as the first Americans to visit in their OR's. They were at least 30 years behind us as far as technology. The people we met, outside of Moscow, were very nice to us. We were invited to a wedding (spontaneously) and several times on our trip were invited to outdoor picnics, also on the spur of the moment. Even the outdoor vendors were very nice to us and gave us flowers and food. But I must say, the cities, towns and roads were clean, no graffiti on buildings, and Kiev was absolutely beautiful. The streets in most of these cities were swept by elderly women with wooden brooms, I even took a picture of several women sweeping the street from the snow that fallen while we were there. We went to GUM their department store, they had most everything you would need. Went into book stores and small grocery stores, but supplies were limited. Even their subway system was absolutely beautiful, each station was decorated differently, one to honor the farmer, another for the military, etc. And no graffiti at all. A friend and I hopped onto every train to see all of the different stations and we ended up out into the countryside. We were lost, but a young man asked if we needed help. He took the time and brought us back into Moscow and turned around and went back to his home in the country. My twin sister didn't go with me on the trains, but she walked several of the streets in Moscow by herself and got lost, too. But she saw several soldiers coming from a building and asked how to get back to the hotel, they gave her a ride back in their military vehicle to the hotel. We even went to an underground church service one Sunday....it really made us appreciate the freedom we have to worship openly and without fear. Most all of the people we met were very kind and none were hostile to us. The most interesting thing was to see Lenin in a plexiglass-type sarcophagus visible from the street. I think most people in the world want to live in peace. It was a learning experience.

Many Thanks Tucker! Would not sweat the small stuff coming from the jealous ones!

Hey TuckTuck, did you choose the Store at random, or did Putie send you there?

Ever hear of the Potemkin Village, Tucker?

Additional post. I am no fan of Putin—he is NOT a good guy (but neither are Biden or Obama). But I don’t believe Tucker as duped or is naive. Moscow is very prosperous—and if you still believe Russia is stuck in the 1970s, you have been duped or are VERY naive.