Dirty politics in Russia may be the reason over a million chickens have died at a central Russian poultry farm.
At least, that’s the story the farms owner Alexander Chetverikov, a Russian parliament member, is clucking.
Chetverikov, from the Just Russia Party, is insisting his political opponents have targeted his company and are forcing it into bankruptcy over a $190,000 tax debt because he led an anticorruption campaign on behalf of regional businessmen two years ago.
Whoever is to blame here, the chickens are the real victims here, as Chetverikov explains only more will be lost as his company loses funding, saying:
“We can’t afford to feed the chickens any more, as we have no money, and we will continue to eliminate the remaining 3 million chickens if the unfair bankruptcy situation is not eased and the state doesn’t come to our rescue.”
Others, like deputy head of the Zheleznogorsk district administration, Viktor Alyoshechtin, insist the farmer is merely politicizing his company’s economic problems, saying:
“Instead of resolving the economic issues, he deliberately politicized the conflict, incited the workers and organized a demonstration.”
Regardless of where the blame lies, we are crossing our fingers that the Russian government steps in to somehow save the hundreds of thousands baby chicks that are being dumped into rusty metal barrels, where they will quickly freeze to death in the snow-filled farm fields.
We think it’s disgusting and unfair to make defenseless animals, not to mention the 1,700 workers who will lose their jobs, pay the price meant for a single politician.
[Image via AP Images.]
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