I turn to the period of the war itself. Before I bore the reader with boring codes and product layouts, I consider it necessary to give evidence of an eyewitness and a front-line soldier:

'Actually, the military ration was very good, 900 grams of bread in winter and 800 in the summer, 180 grams of cereals, meat, 35 g of sugar, 100 g of vodka during the fighting counted per day. If these products reached the soldier bypassing the mediators, the soldier quickly became smooth, contented, complacent. But, as always, we have a lot of good beginnings, ideas, ideas, which in practice turn into their opposite. Food was not always available. In addition, she was stolen without shame and conscience, who only could. The soldier should have kept quiet and tolerated. ' NIKULIN NN Memories of the war. St. Petersburg. 2008, p. 61.
This testimony is especially valuable for young people. Those already mature by age who have found the times of the USSR for the rest of their life have learned that: 'If on the fence there is written a word of three letters, then behind the fence there is almost always only firewood.'

The fundamental gap between the declaration and reality-this was the tragedy of the USSR.

According to the papers, according to the bread figures recorded in the plans, everything was OK and everything was OK, but in practice ...

For example, those who served in the CA in the 70-80s will not lie: If the authorities and the cook did not steal, then the food in the soldier's canteen was very nutritious, diverse and acceptable in quality.

At the same time there were e ... nuances. Those who served, for example in the ZabVO, will remember the eternal famine that has torn the soldiers' stomachs (until it became a 'grandfather').

At the same time in the same ZabVO (Zabaikalsky military district) there were parts where the soldier was simply fed red fish. I personally knew one very good person who for life was disgusted with the red fish, having served in the ZabVO urgent. But he did not see meat practically all the two years of service. Only a couple of times in canned food, in exercises.

So, June 1941 ... The Red Army is still satisfied with the decision of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) N 1357-551 of May 15, 1941 and Order N 208 of the USSR on May 24,

After June 22, 1941, the Soviet state could not carry out this decision. Its food supply has decreased very sharply.

This was due to the impetuous offensive of the Wehrmacht. Only 70% of the strategic mobilization reserves of the Soviet state were received by the enemy in the Western regions of the USSR.

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Restore these supplies was not from where: in 1942, under the German occupation, there were planted areas of exactly half of what was available before the war. The country lost three quarters of sugar and more than a third (38%) of grain, after all, Ukraine and the Kuban, all-Union black earth barns were lost.

From the countryside men in the army were razed clean, cars and tractors, too. In the villages there were disabled and old, unprincipled men. There was nobody to plow and sow, and there was nothing for it. Fairy tales of feminists about self-sufficient agro-commune women do not consider. Soviet women in the village struggled and did everything they could, but without a man ... and besides, unlike feminists, they had old people and children around their neck. Therefore, the collection of grain fell sharply and amounted in 1943, only 37% of the level of 1941.