Hungry Front: the state attended to the sale of equipment from conservation
Screenshots from the already non-existent website "RosReserves.RF". The Internet remembers everything.
Come - buy
The needs of the front will not always and everywhere be fully satisfied. There was no such thing in storiesso that the warring armies have enough property, equipment, fuel and ammunition. There is always something in short supply. The special operation is no exception in this series - the widespread use of funds from the civilian population for deliveries to the front is a clear confirmation of this. So it was during the Great Patriotic War. Workers raised funds for the construction tanks and artillery, and not in single copies - entire companies of military equipment often went to the front.
Now the law of the market rules, and with it there is a parallel Russia, in which dealers in conservation equipment only have time to count banknotes. Such are the grimaces of modernity - formally, all the property redeemed from the reserves belongs to the owner, and no one can do anything about it.
The only question is on what basis the property went to the merchants, if at the moment of partial mobilization there was a chronic shortage of equipment, weapons and uniforms? And that's putting it mildly.
But times are changing. For example, the RosReserves company (not to be confused with the Federal Agency for State Reserves Rosrezerv) up to a certain point extensively advertised a wide range of military equipment. "Military Review" at one time published the material "To whom is the SVO, and to whom is the mother: buy equipment from conservation”, which dealt with the sale of BRDMs, Urals, UAZs and other scarce equipment to everyone. In the midst of a special operation. Everything that can shoot, of course, is demilitarized, but this does not negate the importance of combat vehicles at the front - in any rembat, equipment will be armed worse than before.
Some time ago, an avalanche of popular indignation simply hit the RosReserva office. The admins of the firm's groups barely had time to clean up the comments, after which the owners definitely had to clean up the karma. But the seller acted much wiser - he simply sawed out all the advertising resources from the Internet. Now there is neither the RosReserves.RF website, nor the VKontakte group of the same name. The last signs of the existence of the portal date back to the beginning of July. Whether the shop is still working is unknown: the owners have done everything to make the public forget about the existence of RosReserves.
In addition to the material published above, you can add motor boats, which are so in demand by our fighters on the Dnieper. Entrepreneurs offered Master-651 boats decommissioned by the coast guard with powerful engines. According to experts, such property is automatically written off when the resource is depleted and sold to offices like RosReserves literally at the price of scrap metal. Then the equipment is brought to condition for a penny and sold with a considerable profit.
Questions arise not only to resellers, but also to ex-owners - why do decommissioned boats end up on the market, and not with our fighters on the Dnieper?
A similar situation is with the confiscated boats of poachers, of which there are more than one hundred across Russia. It took an organized appeal of military correspondents to the heads of Dagestan, Tatarstan, the Astrakhan region, the Krasnodar and Primorsky territories with a call to transfer to the army the poachers' floating craft stored in dead weight. So far, only the head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, has responded, instructing "to study the possibility of transferring the confiscated boats to the fighters in the NVO." How long the “study” will last is not specified.
Military correspondents publish facts from the front - the military are forced to use this.
If RosReserves prudently retired from the information field after the scandal, then the rest of the sellers of decommissioned equipment are still in the game. For example, the Phoenix extreme recreation and tourism club still offers armored personnel carriers, armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles and even tanks. Come buy. And Phoenix is far from the only one in the industry.
Operation Confiscation
Almost five hundred days have passed since the beginning of the special operation, and the state finally decided to deal with the issue of selling Russian reserves. They struck the bell from several towers at once - journalists, military correspondents, volunteers and simply caring citizens. As a result, Dmitry Medvedev instructed the law enforcement agencies and the Federal Property Management Agency to deal with the situation.
A special question for responsible persons who are still selling military equipment from storage. In fairness, anyone who sold even a decommissioned bowler hat to offices like RosReserva after February 22 last year should be prosecuted.
There is nothing special to object to the laws of the market - until martial law is declared in the country, business will earn in all possible ways. Legal and near-legal, of course. Russia found itself in an intermediate position.
On the one hand, all signs of a market economy have been preserved, which does not deter business, including foreign ones.
On the other hand, the special operation consumes a lot of material resources, some of which simply cannot be replaced - civilian factories cannot cope. Only examples with worn out treads of KamAZ truck wheels from the NVO zone are worth something. The rear services are clearly delaying the delivery of tires, and it is not so easy for volunteers to raise several hundred thousand for changing trucks. And that's just a drop in the ocean. The market economy is not an assistant here at all, but rather the opposite.
Screenshots from the already non-existent website "RosReserves.RF". The Internet remembers everything.
What can be done now?
Do not declare martial law because of businessmen who are not ready to share the equipment bought from the reserve. The government has enough tools to resolve the issue without too much noise. First of all, the prosecutor's office and the Investigative Committee are able to double-check all acts of writing off property and payment documents for the sale of equipment. If you try hard, you can crank it out in a couple of weeks, no more. Moreover, it is worth taking sellers by the gills not only for the facts of sale from storage after 22.02.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX, but also for early events.
On what basis did the quite lively BRDM-2 end up on the RosReserves.RF sales website, and not on the front line? Or Ural-432066, released in 2008. How did he get on the shelf?
Some object, they say, combat vehicles come from storage in a deplorable state, and resellers invest a lot in restoration. It is on this node of the chain that one can attract caring patriots of Russia. Who are now raising money for UAZs and other front-line deficits. Declaring a fee for batteries, tires, operating fluids, dried seals and pipes for decommissioned cars from the Federal Reserve is much cheaper and will allow more equipment to be put into operation.
The prosecutor's office should demand the immediate termination in court of contracts for the sale of equipment from storage, if there is even the slightest suspicion of a corruption scheme. And equipment from virtual showrooms will go straight to the front. Yes, it will be painful for sellers, but there is no other way - in market conditions, any violation of these conditions is punishable by law.
Litigation will certainly take a lot of time, but it will set a precedent. Now the dishonest merchant will think seven times about buying another KamAZ “written off” on paper. The hour is not even, he will move to humanitarian aid to the fighters of the NWO. Why not - history knows many examples when scoundrels atoned for their sins with charity.
But what to do with those who quite legally bought decommissioned equipment even before the special operation. Restored as a native and put up for sale in "good hands." Business is business, and without declaring martial law, the country has no options to honestly take equipment for the military. Here, either to allocate budget funding, or to motivate to transfer the property of the army on credit. At interest, of course. And the businessman is profitable - he received federal loan bonds, and the state supplied the front with scarce equipment.
By the way, a business can immediately resell the securities and get the coveted cash in hand. The main thing in this scheme is the real interest of officials to resolve the issue quickly and efficiently.
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