It is a shame that the author of the comic removed (most? all?) Green panels from the online version in favour of a book.

С днём рождения!

Old World Blues.

Allegedly the root of the issue is a conflict over catering for the Army, and related income.

Edit: Then there is a fairly informative 29+ min video by the man himself, giving his reasons. It is available only in Russian as far as I am aware.

Thank you for sharing this; have not actually finished reading just yet. Some "political" connecctions author makes do seem... Very particular. Search for "Marx", "Lenin", "Communism" in the document if you would like.

Actually after having done that myself, perhaps it does, in part, belong to TL;DR. Thankfully the author did account for that.

Gentlemen.