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As NBC News reports, the manure was worth 40,000 rubles ($610) - the exact amount he owed the bank, Bakshayev told Sibkray.ru.
"The whole of Russia somehow owes something now to these lickspittle good-for-nothing bankers with nothing to do," Bakshayev was quoted as saying.
He owns 70 cows and 20 piglets but his total debt is 1 million rubles ($15,400), he told Sibkray.ru. That's 34 times the average monthly salary in Russia of about 29,000 rubles ($450).
The Kremlin has said it relies on Russian farmers to fill the gap caused by an import ban on Western foodstuffs imposed in retribution for sanctions over the war in Ukraine.
However, punitive interest rates have left businesses struggling for money.
Bakshayev's creditor, the state-run Sberbank, blasted his stunt as "hooliganism" but police in the city of Kuybyshev saw no reason to detain the farmer.
Security guards did not appear in the hour that it took Bakshayev to dump the manure, plant the gallows and pose for interviews in front of the heap.
Source: Pro-Sibir.org
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. . . here in the US, federal thugs from four different TLAs, armed with automatic weapons, plus several different groups of state and local thugs, also armed to the teeth, would have swooped in on him in minutes, ready to blow his head off at the first indication of what they imagined to be "provocative" behavior. Further, he'd probably be charged and locked up without bail pending trial for terrorism (thanks to the Patriot Act and NDAA) for depositing the "WMD precursor chemicals" found in the manure in front of the bank, his farm, livestock, and farming equipment would be seized without recompense for having been used in a felony, his taxes for past years would be intensely audited, he'd be placed on all sorts of terror watch lists and be prohibited from flying, and, on top of all that, he would be responsible to pay for removal and cleanup of the manure, plus he'd still be made to pay the bank for the amount outstanding (plus additional fees, penalties, and interest).
Ah, yes, our "sweet land of liberty"!!!!
Sottreader, I'm sadly in total agreement with you - this would not have ended well for a U.S. farmer! America no longer allows such "uppity" actions from the "commoners"! It's hard to forget the man who was recently arrested and jailed for dutifully paying his taxes with legitimate U.S. currency - paper dollars. The IRS office was apparently majorly put out that they were all folded into little squares!