Black bread, the staple food of the fighting nation, tastes rough and unpalatable, but it is the embodiment of the nation's tenacity.

Lin Qiu's Harbin Russian Music Bar is a food that is produced on a large scale in China and is closest to Russian taste, because it was originally made by Russians after they arrived in Harbin, but you have to eat it at least four or five times to adapt to its taste! Because it is a traditional process, the "old flour fertilizer" is used as a starter, and wheat flour and other wheat seeds (such as oats or buckwheat) are slightly mixed to make a blank for fermentation for more than ten hours, and then baked in a charcoal stove.

So, what's the taste of the Russian music bar of Harbin Lin Qiu Company? Generally speaking, the aroma of yeast fermentation is relatively strong (good for the stomach), slightly sour, slightly salty, even slightly bitter, and too hard, and can be stored for a long time without deterioration. New readers will definitely think that this food does not meet the dietary standards of China people, but they will like it after getting used to it, and they will be very hungry ... But this kind of bread is called "Baileba", which is probably equivalent to our steamed bread in China.

The "black music bar" in the picture is made after many times of flour proportion adjustment and formula change, and its taste and nutrition have made great progress than before.

Russia's "Heileba", also known as Russia's "Wotou"! Now nutritionists say it is healthy, nutritious, and rich in dietary fiber ... and even can "scrape oil" to lose weight. It is recommended to eat more ... that's because living conditions are good now, not to mention eating big fish and meat every day. Almost all people who gain three pounds on holidays are overweight, but "Heileba" is a "steamed bread" after all! Eat for a month in a row? Make sure you can eat the whole elbow, and the weight loss plan will be ruined. Needless to say, even in the fifties and sixties, our ancestors didn't have much flour and rice in their food, and every day they ate wowotou! Everyone dreams of eating rice and white flour every day ... so does Russia. Who doesn't want to eat Boleba every day? But the problem is that wheat production is so low that only the rich can afford it. The wheat harvested by ordinary people is not enough for the whole family. No shelling, no chaff, only grinding ... but it's not enough to eat. We also need to add some miscellaneous grains such as rye and oats (according to our understanding, it is "hybrid noodles"), grind them together and bake them into bread, which is "Heileba".

The picture shows the first famous brand of "Black Music Bar": Borodino Black Music Bar, with "Xiangcaizi" on the plate next to it.

The poor have fun in hardships, and they also divide Russia's "Wotou" into grades or brand effects. It is said that the best "Heileba" is "Borodino Heileba" (now it is also the first bread in Russia, but the manufacturing technology and materials are far better than those of that year). It is said that when Emperor Napoleon led his troops to invade Russia in 18 12, he fought against the Russian army in Borodino village in the western suburbs of Moscow. The nuns in Borodino Monastery (foreign nuns) added "French fragrant seeds" (parsley) to the "hybrid noodles" and baked a special taste of black bread (authentic "baguette" with fragrant seeds), which was well received by Russian soldiers ... So "Borodino Heileba" became famous at one fell swoop.

"Borodino Heileba" is a famous brand, so what is the worst "Heileba"? In the battle of Leningrad, the Soviet people only supplied 125 grams of Heileba every day! There is also a unified ticket supply. The paper in the picture is a bread coupon. Is there a fork on the side? Paper money is the quantity you receive at one time. You have to tear it off ... you have to go to the food distribution point to get it every day ... What is the concept of 125g? Not even three or two, and this kind of black bread is mixed with 15 ~ 25% sawdust, even some kind of ore powder! Its purpose is not easy to digest, so that "black bread" stays in the stomach for a while, and then it won't be hungry, but this kind of thing is not only rationed very little, but also has no nutrition at all. After 872 days of siege, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Leningrad starved to death!

The trademark on the "junk lunch meat" that the United States helped the Soviet Union has been printed in Russian.

In fact, not only Leningrad, Ukraine was occupied by the Germans two months after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union lost its "granary"! Young men and women have signed up for the war, and no one is farming on the farm ... The whole country is short of food, especially high-protein and high-fat non-staple food. Soldiers fight in the front line and eat "Heileba" without nutrition every day. Where do they get their strength? In order to destroy Germany, the enemy of * * * (as for post-war hostility, it is another matter), the United States provided emergency food to the Soviet Union through the Lending Act. Besides "lunch meat", canned fat pork is more popular with Soviet soldiers.

Female workers in American canned food enterprises are distributing pork.

After the pork is cut, it needs seasoning and pickling before it can be canned and steamed.

Assembly line operation, the pickled pork will be weighed in tanks, then put into a large steamer for aging and cooling!

The finished product is packaged and shipped to the Soviet Union.

The contents of the can are just like those in the picture. It is flavored with fragrant leaves, black pepper and salt. The white paste in the spoon is concentrated lard. The Soviet Union is located in the cold zone and needs to eat a lot of high-fat food to keep out the cold. Americans also know the living habits of the Soviets, so they produced a large number of canned fat pork to support the Soviet Union.

American food aid really helped the Soviet Union. At least frontline soldiers can eat a few pieces of fat while eating black Lebanon, which can supplement a lot of energy.

For us in China, bread is basically the "advanced dessert" with cream and coconut milk in the picture, and the worst is sliced "toast bread" for breakfast, but the Hei Bang eaten by the Soviets is very different from this! It is something that tastes rough, tastes bad and is difficult to swallow. Because of the low yield and small planting area of wheat, not most people can eat white flour. The people at the bottom can only try their best to fill their stomachs with other miscellaneous grains. What can they eat without it? It's just a matter of food shortage. Why haven't you heard of it: Canadian black bread, American black bread, Australian black bread ...? Because these countries are big grain-producing countries, there is no shortage of wheat as the basic grain.

German black bread was also the hard-core field rations of the whole German army in World War II.

Coincidentally, Germany also has black bread, which is similar to Russian black bread. Before Germany's industrialization, ordinary people also ate it. When they entered industrialization, the taste of ordinary people also improved. They want to spread honey on brown bread to improve the taste (sweetness will bring happiness), but Germany doesn't produce much honey. Later, the Germans invented "artificial honey", which is sucrose (there is no sugar cane in Germany, only sugar beet) and fructose with a little glucose.

The war has long passed, but "Heileba" is still one of the daily staple foods of Russians, but its nutritional composition has been greatly improved. At the same time, Russia's small-scale production has reached the second place in the world, and its export volume ranks first in the world! "Baileba" can be eaten at any time, but Russia is still willing to eat Heileba, a bit like Shandong people are willing to eat miscellaneous grains pancakes.

Vodka, pickled cucumber and Heileba are soul foods on the Russian table.

One thing, the worse the natural environment, the more advanced civilization can be created, because poverty will change! Bad natural conditions can't be changed, but we should change the bad lifestyle through our own wisdom and efforts.

Maybe Russians ate Bereba hundreds of years ago, so they can't be called "fighting nation".