Dead man on the roof of the old Volga. You will see it in Russia too

Without the Volga or a blow

The Russians say, “Without paper you are a worm, with paper a man.” This harsh bureaucratic rule applies even after death. Without an official death certificate, the deceased is not a full-fledged deceased, and thus has no right to a funeral. But where to get the necessary “paper” when you live in a village 200 or even 500 kilometers from the city, where the right administrative worker equipped with the appropriate form and stamp works?

The portal with a good dose of sarcasm writes that happiness in the misfortune in this wilderness is when you become a victim of a crime. The whole investigation team then arrives, describes everything exactly, issues the necessary documents and arrests the perpetrator if he succeeds.

Trouble in these poor parts is when death occurs from natural causes. Then the survivors have a problem. Of course, even in Russia, it is possible to order the transport of the body to the regional autopsy room, which will issue the relevant death certificate, and back to the village, where the deceased will be buried. But according to the portal, the prices are absolutely “crazy”. For the two-way transport of the deceased to a distance of one hundred kilometers, the family must pay 14 thousand rubles, about four thousand crowns. However, this exceeds the amount of one solid monthly pension in these areas.

Aircraft carriers or dead?

In the village below Voronezh, inhabited almost only by retirees, Grandma was lucky to have a neighbor with old Volga, who was willing to tie her husband to the garden on the roof and set off.

For “paper”, the dead also travel in suitcases, car seats, sometimes boats on the Siberian rivers. The rules are relentless. In Krasnoyarsk, relatives ignored them, arranged a funeral and buried their grandfather without a death certificate. They had to dig him out, Gazeta Wyborcza wrote. The state does not reimburse the money for the transport of the deceased. According to the Polish daily in connection with the Krasnoyarsk case, Russia plans to build three aircraft carriers, which will cost the Russian cash register 1.5 trillion rubles (400 billion crowns). That makes over eight percent of the country’s annual income.

Games of Undertakers

And what about funeral homes? According to the portal from Voronezh, they do not intend to reduce prices for the transport of bodies. On the contrary. In recent weeks, their prices have increased even more. Just a pearl at the end. Last week, Russian television reported the First Channel about the national round of the gravediggers competition. In digging graves for a time in the cemetery in Novosibirsk. The two-member teams had to manually dig a pit two meters long, 80 centimeters wide and 1.6 meters deep. The winners from Omsk dealt with it in 38 minutes and won the prize of 30 thousand rubles (8.5 thousand crowns). The cleanliness of the excavation was checked by launching a real – empty – coffin. According to them, the Omsk gravediggers are already looking forward to the international encounter.

– .