Russia's Soaring Wartime Salaries Are Bolstering Working-Class Support for Putin

Yes, fighting a war can get very expensive! So Putin the Terrible is bribing workers for support of his special military operation?

When will the Russian Slav(e)s finally get rid of the megalomaniac and war criminal Putin the Terrible! Humanity is waiting anxiously for this to happen!

"The reasons for rising incomes in Russia have been well documented: a labor shortage, hefty payments to soldiers and their families, and an unprecedented level of state spending that has obliged defense sector factories to work around the clock. However, whether standards of living have actually improved is open to debate, given the record military spending, high inflation, Western sanctions, and limits on hydrocarbon exports. ...

The data that are available show that real incomes rose 5.8 percent in 2023 and at the same rate in the first quarter of 2024, according to Russia’s State Statistics Service (Rosstat). On top of that, figures from the Federal Tax Service show that the Russian state’s income tax revenues in 2023 were 40 percent higher than in 2021 (the lion’s share of this increase took place in 2023). ..."

Russia's Soaring Wartime Salaries Are Bolstering Working-Class Support for Putin - Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center Many formerly badly paid Russian blue-collar workers have seen their salaries skyrocket since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, far outpacing inflation.