Chairman Of The Russian Federation Council Talks About "Bush's Legs"

Valentina Matvienko said that the US sent humanitarian aid in the 90s to destroy the Russian economy.

Americans used humanitarian aid in the 1990s allegedly as a tool for the collapse of the Russian economy, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko said in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets. She cited the example of shipments of chicken thighs, popularly called "Bush's legs" - after the surname of the then US president. "Do you think they were sent to us just out of the goodness of their hearts? They were undermining our agriculture, they were destroying our poultry farms at the time by sending products that were cheaper," Matvienko said.

She added that the US was also "harming the health" of Russians by supplying hams "full of antibiotics, hormones and all sorts of nasty stuff." However, both of these claims are untrue. For example, in the United States, the use of hormones in poultry farming has been prohibited by law since 1972, and the use of antibiotics is comparable to Russian practice. In addition, Americans participated in the restoration of Russian agriculture, which was in deep crisis after the collapse of the USSR, investing millions of dollars in joint projects, supplying equipment and technology. The current domestic poultry farms largely copy American ones.

Till then, Matvienko argues that Russia "throughout history" has faced attempts at external isolation and restriction of development. "We have all along lived and still live in conditions of hybrid warfare," she stated. However, in the same interview, she admitted that the crisis of the 1990s was primarily internal: it was "about the survival of a gravely ill state that could no longer perform its basic functions," delayed pensions and salaries, and uncertainty and a sense of hopelessness prevailed in society.

Recently, Vladimir Putin said that humanitarian aid from the West in the 1990s allegedly caused problems for manufacturers inside Russia. "The good thing, the humanitarian aid - it came, our producers inside died because they can't sell their products. The reverse side of seemingly good intentions," he claimed.

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