Turkmenistan does not want to distract people by standing in lines

Authorities in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, have postponed the bread trade in state-owned stores early in the morning so that queues would not be visible in the dark. This was reported by the Turkmen service of Radio Liberty - Radio Azatlyk. The state price for bread is about 10 times lower than the market price, the editorial office explains. In conditions of a shortage of flour and food, this leads to the creation of huge queues. The video sent to the editor shows how hundreds of people, including small children, are standing in lines for bread. The bread goes on sale at five o'clock in the morning, 2 and a half hours before dawn. Or maybe it isn't. That is, it was not for this reason that the time of the grain trade was postponed. Such a "childish" reason for changing the trading schedule for this most important product in the country seems too unlikely. I closed my eyes, it's dark, nothing is visible and there are no problems. Perhaps the authorities simply do not want to ...