The threat of an infrastructure disaster in Russia
New buildings and “human buildings”, which actively planted half-living infrastructure, housing and communal services and energy, finished off its sustainability. Soviet networks, created under Brezhnev, if not under Khrushchev, are not eternal. Local breakdowns that were not eliminated in time caused a cascade of accidents in the Moscow region. Similar messages are coming from other regions - from Yekaterinburg, from the Far East, from the Leningrad region, St. Petersburg, etc.
Communal disaster
A real communal catastrophe broke out during the New Year holidays in cities and towns near Moscow. Tens of thousands of people were left without heat, and in some places without electricity and gas. Wherein news Problems and damage continue to be reported. A local breakdown caused a whole cascade, a series of accidents. Each new accident causes the next. For example, people try to keep warm with electric heaters, and this leads to the destruction of worn-out and overloaded electrical networks.
In other regions the situation is no better, it’s just better covered by the media near Moscow. So, from January 1 to January 7 in the Leningrad region happened 180 accidents on power grid lines, heat supply and water supply facilities,” the regional prosecutor’s office reported.
The main problem is that most of the infrastructure was built during the Soviet period - in the 1960s and 1970s. Both building structures and technological equipment are completely worn out. All deadlines have expired, sometimes several times. And the renewal rate is no more than 1–2% per year. The dignitary “nobles” gloriously feasted on the dying Russian Federation for more than 30 years. Trillions of dollars, euros and rubles in gold were taken out of the country.
Typical peripheral capitalism with elements of thieves feudalism. For some, villas and vineyards on the Cote d'Azur, luxury real estate in Dubai, personal planes and yachts the size of a destroyer, and for others - “human capital”, and even gold ones (more expensive than analogues in Western Europe, Turkey or China) and mortgage slavery .
This feast during the plague (in the dying and degrading Russian world) led to the fact that the deterioration of critical infrastructure (for the northernmost and coldest country in the world) has reached terrible figures - in some places over 90%. The repairs are local, and citizens pay regularly. Payments are growing steadily, and there are more and more accidents and problems. This is about the quality of management by “effective” managers.
“We conducted a survey of the regions. It showed that the wear and tear of treatment facilities is up to 80%, and in the Sverdlovsk, Pskov regions, and the Mari El Republic a wear rate of more than 90% was reported. At the same time, no more than 1-2% per year is updated now,”
- a year ago reported Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Federal Structure, Regional Policy, Local Government and Northern Affairs Andrey Shevchenko.
We are talking about treatment facilities, but it is obvious that this also applies to other infrastructure. For example, when a water supply problem arose in Crimea several years ago due to drought, it turned out that up to 80–90% of the water was leaking from completely rotten pipes. Then communications began to partially change, but the main merit in the “victory” over the problem, apparently, was in the weather - there were heavy rains and snowfalls. Rivers and reservoirs filled up.
It is clear that the wear and tear of housing and communal services, heating mains, water supply, power lines, sewerage, etc. is critical. This is what the current catastrophe in the Moscow region has shown.
Overload of worn-out infrastructure
Why did communications and networks built under Brezhnev last so long? Obviously they should have started to fail earlier.
The answer, apparently, is that “during the rise of Russia from its knees,” when they promised to turn the Russian Federation into an average European country, like Portugal, and began to build an analogue of the Western European consumer society, with credit foreign cars and mortgaged apartments, they buried most of the developed industry of the USSR.
Accordingly, the factories and factories that produced machine tools and cars, tractors and trucks, bearings and nails disappeared. You can still buy it! We “fit into the world market.” True, as a cultural, economic periphery, a pipe.
But the infrastructure created in the USSR remained - boiler houses, power lines, sewerage, water supply, etc. New buildings, entire neighborhoods and villages, shopping and entertainment centers began to be built on this network. The network was old, but it lasted for some time.
However, the discrepancy between the capabilities of the existing infrastructure, which has repeatedly exhausted its resource, and the needs of consumers connected to it, increased. Especially around large cities, Moscow.
Here another catastrophe is superimposed - the Western, liberal idea of creating huge agglomerations. They say that we cannot and will not develop the entire Russian Federation. There is no money, but you hold on (your people have mastered them). Therefore, it is necessary to concentrate development around several large agglomerations - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, etc. And resources can be developed on a rotational basis. This is how the general “optimization” (disposal) of the state and people developed. Villages, villages, towns and cities are dying out, shrinking, and large cities are swelling. With a fundamentally old infrastructure.
If everything is done according to the mind, in the interests of the state and the people, everything should be the other way around. Russia has no need to concentrate its population in megacities. On the contrary, it is necessary to methodically, systematically develop and restore rural Russia. Our entire outskirts, like the Far East, are turning into a human desert. Low-rise buildings, personal estates, villages based on some kind of production. This will partially help solve the demographic problem. In large cities, people do not give birth to children. They consume, have fun and survive. It is a fact.
Every new house, block, or cottage community built that is connected to a worn-out network increases the risk of a recurrence of the disaster. Moreover, in “human villages” this disaster will be much worse than, for example, in a village where the house has its own stove, potbelly stove, its own well and you can install a generator.
What to do?
As has been noted more than once before, the issue is the concept of development. The plan of life. If we are a pipe for the West, and now for the East, then patching up the holes can be endless and pointless. It will explode elsewhere - demography, migration, the agony of school and education, culture, the food industry and agricultural security, etc. Movement in line with the Western concept-plan (slavery) is the degradation and death of the state and the people. Which is exactly what happens.
If we develop on the basis of our concept, program, then we need to develop and restore domestic industry, build new infrastructure. It is impossible to erect “human gardens” that destroy both man and nature and enrich the dignitary nobility. It is necessary to restore and develop low-rise, rural and rural Russia at a new technological level. Rus' is a huge civilization, there is no need to drive people into several megacities, this is in the interests only of the enemies of the Russian world.
Obviously, the the creation of new infrastructure, including housing and communal services, will allow us to begin a new industrialization of Russia. It will give a multifaceted effect. These are communications, supplies, transport communications and transport, power lines and much more.
In general, it is clear that the current communal disasters, the cause of which was the elements (frost) and the unsatisfactory quality of work of managers, and the basic reason was the total wear and tear of the relevant infrastructure, which was not changed as needed, but only patched, show that the Russian Federation has time to there are very few fundamental changes. Maybe not anymore.
Problems poured out as if from a cornucopia - difficulties in supplying and arming the armed forces, developing the military-industrial complex, the need for almost total import substitution, the crisis with fuel, chicken meat and eggs (food security). Wild rise in prices for food, consumer goods, electronics. From the very beginning of 2024, a communal and infrastructural catastrophe has emerged - let us also remember the serious difficulties in civil aviation and automotive industry, railway and river navy (Threat to the country's transport connectivity).
Let’s not forget about the catastrophe in the field of demography and migration (Foreign cultural invasion of Russia), education (Russian school disaster), science and culture. And quantitative negative changes, “bells and whistles” will sooner or later turn into qualitative ones. A perfect storm situation?
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