Comrades! Let us cast our gaze upon the latest proclamations from the halls of power. One Mr. Khusnullin, a functionary of the state, boasts with an almost indecent pride that individual housing construction now accounts for more than half of all residential growth in Russia. He speaks of 'amnesty' for garages and cottages, the laying of pipes, and the expansion of roads, as if these were acts of benevolence toward the people.
But let us strip away this philanthropic veil! What is this 'family mortgage' if not a sophisticated shackle? It is the cruelest instrument of the usurers! The financial capital does not seek to provide shelter for the toiling masses; it seeks to bind the worker to a lifelong debt, ensuring that the proletariat remains a subservient source of interest for the banking monopolies. The bourgeoisie does not offer a home; they offer a gilded cage of credit.
Mr. Khusnullin claims to be 'astounded' by the scale of this growth, recalling a voyage by helicopter over Ufa where he beheld a sea of private houses. Indeed, he observes that where the road goes, 'investments and economy' follow. Mark my words: when the state speaks of 'investment,' it means the further appropriation of land by the wealthy; when it speaks of 'economy,' it means the intensified exploitation of the laborer who must now commute from a distant hamlet to the factory floor.
According to the reports from the Rosreestr, the land allocated for such construction has swelled by some 17,200 hectares, reaching a staggering 1.36 million hectares. The authorities attribute this to a 'growing desire' for gardening and private living. Bah! It is a flight from the squalor of the industrial slums created by the very same capitalists who now sell them the dream of a plot of land—provided they sign away their future to the moneylenders first.
Thus, we see the mechanism of the modern era: the worker is encouraged to build his own small fortress, not for his liberation, but to ensure he is too burdened by debt to ever challenge the hegemony of the ruling class. The road is laid, the gas is piped, and the mortgage-noose is tightened. The exploitation continues, merely shifting its scenery from the city tenement to the rural cottage.