Comrades! Cast your gaze upon the latest bulletins from the so-called 'experts' of the fishing industry. We are told, with a straight face, that the most 'affordable' sustenance for the Russian laborer is now the putassu, priced at a mere 82 rubles per kilogram. Is this not a poignant illustration of the wretched state of our working class? While the bourgeois feast upon delicacies, the proletariat is steered toward the cheapest scraps of the ocean!

Let us examine this ledger of scarcity. The Pacific herring follows in this dismal queue at 93 rubles, and the Caspian smelt lingers at 95. Then we have the Black Sea sprat and the Atlantic herring, climbing further up the scale of unaffordability.

One must wonder: who profits from this 'accessibility'? The President of the All-Russian Association of Fishing Enterprises, a Mr. German Zverev, dares to claim that the ascent of the putassu to the top of the list is merely a result of 'increased catches and stable demand.' Ha! What a masterful piece of bourgeois obfuscation! It is not 'demand' they speak of, but the systematic exploitation of the market. The capital dictates what the worker shall eat, ensuring that the surplus value remains firmly in the pockets of the fish-merchant monopolies while the laborer is left with the cheapest fillet available.

And yet, in a crowning irony of capitalist contradiction, we are informed that the nation has ascended to the third rank globally in the production of sturgeon. Truly, a marvelous spectacle! The state produces the most exquisite of delicacies for the elite, while the common man is encouraged to sustain himself on putassu.

This is the essence of the class struggle: the opulent sturgeon for the few, and the cheapest scraps for the many. The yoke of financial capital grows heavier, and the gap between the banquet hall and the worker's table widens!