Farmers in Russia's Novosibirsk Region have ended their protest against the mass slaughter of animals
The last farming family in the village of Kozikha in the Novosibirsk Region, which had long resisted the local authorities, agreed to hand over its livestock for culling.
The Mironenko family remained the only farm that refused to voluntarily hand over their animals for slaughter under pressure from official authorities.
The farmers’ daughter, Daria Myronenko, announced the end of the struggle on social media.
She noted that the forces were unequal, and the psychological and administrative pressure from Russian officials proved too overwhelming for an ordinary family.
The situation in the Russian hinterland demonstrates the powerlessness of private farmers in the face of the Russian state apparatus.
The forced culling of livestock in the region is officially justified by quarantine measures, but farmers often see this as an attempt to destroy independent agriculture.
For the Myronenko family, this decision was a true tragedy, as livestock farming was their primary means of survival.
Giving up the fight effectively means the complete liquidation of a farm built up over years of hard work.
“The goat is everything”—these words have become a symbol of the private sector’s final defeat in its confrontation with the bureaucratic apparatus of the Novosibirsk region.
The authorities got their way, leaving people without a means of livelihood under the pretext of enforcing sanitary standards.
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