Moscow Rosselkhoz-bank proposed opening banana plantations in Muscovy - "we can become a leading Banana Republic"

[Litwin]

The banana thing reminds me of how Castro wasted countless millions of his subjects trying to kickstart the Cuban milk industry by making Holstein cow hybrids and indoor climate controlled habitats for them.The man was supposed to be obsessed with ice cream, of all things.

 

[Litwin]

Actually, I think Putler's now buying bananas from India, because he has to find some way to spend all of those rupees he was forced by India to take as payment for stolen Siberian oil...