[justsomehnguy]

> Decision to eat garbage still lays with them.

Hmm, no.

I would say believing that garbage is on them. [1]

But when you have nothing other than garbage?

Don't forget what this is the country where you can be detained for holding an invisible placard [0] - so saying something out of the party line is a quick way for the unemployment at least, hence the people who could had provided some other info (primarily on TV) have big incentives not to do so.

[0] https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-protest-arrests/25324619.html

[1] which is another joke because half of those people lived or at least were born when "government never tells the truth" was the default MO even for the government itself.