The Petrol Farce: How the Monopolies Mock the Toiling Masses in Crimea

Comrades! Pray, cast your gaze upon the latest absurdity emerging from the Crimean peninsula. The local governor, Mr. Aksenov, has seen fit to inform the public that 'no one was deceived' regarding the pricing of AI-92 petrol. A marvelous phrase, is it not? It is the very language of the oppressor, who, having squeezed the pockets of the proletariat dry, now assures them that the emptiness of their purses is merely a 'force majeure'!

Let us strip away the polite veneer of officialdom. The administration claims that a lack of fuel volumes prevented the common man from feeling the effects of a price reduction. In truth, this is naught but a cunning game played by the masters of capital. While the bourgeois monopoly controls the flow of fuel, the working man is left to languish, waiting for a drop of petrol that never arrives, or arrives at a price that constitutes a veritable robbery.

Mr. Aksenov promises that AI-95 petrol shall soon flow in greater abundance through the networks of TES and ATAN, with a price ceiling of 100 rubles. He speaks of 'peaceful times' as if the current era were merely a temporary inconvenience, rather than a systemic failure of a market designed to serve the few at the expense of the many. It is a pittance of a concession, a mere crumb tossed to the starving masses to quiet their rightful indignation.

Observe the broader spectacle! Across more than eighty regions, the grip of fuel scarcity has tightened. The high ministers of state—the likes of Mr. Novak—scurry to stabilize the internal market with decrees and bans on exports. They speak of 'Euro-3 standards' and 'direct-run gasoline blending' as if these technical trifles could mask the fundamental exploitation inherent in the system.

They tell us that the government's measures are yielding results, that queues are shortening and pumps are reopening. But we must ask: for whom is the market being stabilized? Is it for the laborer who must travel to his toil, or for the rent-seeking usurers and fuel barons who profit from every artificial shortage?

Behold the machinery of the state: they ban the export of kerosene and diesel, they import fuel from abroad, and they sign laws to ensure the market is fed. Yet the worker remains the last in line, the victim of a system where the basic necessities of life are subject to the whims of capital. The 'force majeure' is not a coincidence—it is the inevitable result of a monopoly that treats the needs of the toiling masses as a secondary concern to the accumulation of profit. The yoke remains, comrades, and the farce continues!