Comrades! Let us cast our gaze upon the latest reports emanating from the counting-houses of the financial marketplace known as 'Vyberu.ru'. They dare to speak of 'financial stability'—a term as hollow as the promises of a debt-collector!

It is claimed that nearly two-thirds of the Russian populace possess savings sufficient to endure for a mere three months. Behold the tragedy! Sixty-two per cent of the respondents believe themselves secure, yet this security is but a fragile shield against the insatiable appetite of the monopolies.

Further, the report boasts that thirty-eight per cent have managed to squirrel away enough for six months or more—an increase from thirty per cent in the preceding year. The bourgeois analysts and the high priests of the Central Bank herald this as a rise in 'financial literacy'. I ask you: is it 'literacy', or is it the primal terror of the worker who sees the shadow of the Great Crisis looming?

Indeed, the proletariat is now forced to forgo the comforts of life, casting 'large purchases' into the abyss, merely to ensure they are not cast into the gutter by the whims of the usurers. This is not prosperity, comrades; it is the desperate hoarding of the oppressed, who must save every kopek to survive the crushing weight of exploitation!

Let us not be deceived by these percentages. While the workers tremble and save, the great Capital continues to swell, feeding upon the very anxiety of those it employs.