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Posted on 07/18/2025 2:36:11 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Grocery stores in Belarus could be fined if they don’t keep enough potatoes in stock, as the country grapples with shortages, high prices and poor-quality spuds.
The new regulation imposes penalties of up to €2,200 (8,400 Belarusian rubles) for failure to supply the staple, widely regarded as Belarus’ national vegetable.
The decree, signed into law on Saturday by President Alexander Lukashenko and officially published on Wednesday, puts the onus on both shops and wholesale suppliers to ensure that common ingredients are delivered to stores, especially in the off-season.
Belarus has been hit by an apparent potato crisis this year, with Lukashenko—who was once the head of a Soviet-era collective farm—railing against supermarkets and members of his own government over the issue.
However, the president’s own policy of regulating and capping potato prices appears to be a key factor behind the reports of low availability and terrible quality.
According to independent news website Mediazona Belarus, it is more profitable for farmers to export vegetables to neighboring Russia, where a kilo of potatoes is sold at twice the Belarusian price.
Another factor is that farmers appear to be offering products of poorer quality to bridge the gap between major harvest seasons.
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You vill haff more potatoes in store, Komrade.
Mabey coming to NYC in 2025!
Liberal states here will fine stores for not stocking enough Twinkies.
What about Ho Hos?
New York will be a socialist utopia after they elect Mamdani. Lenin will be smiling in his Red Square display case.
Theyre out on the corner. Oh. Wait. Never mind.
ZEEPER FOLLIES PINGLIST!(((PING!)))
Political commissar: You must stock more potatoes!
Store owner: I cannot.
Political commissar: You will be fined or placed in prison!
Store owner: How do you say the “f” in potatoes?
Political commissar: There is no “f” in potatoes!
Store owner: That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you!
People will do anything for a potato.
Have to bring them in from the fields that don’t have any potato’s; and there goes the vodka supply as well.
You have to be able to get the potatoes to stock them.
If there’s a shortage, SOMEON will not have *enough* and will be fined for something they cannot help.
Ah, the joys of socialism.
What’s with thse guys?
Do they think they’re Irish?
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