Brahmānanda: Many prominent Argentine people are fleeing the country, going to Mexico and other places. So now they have just uncovered a big plot where the Argentines were sending assassins to other countries to kill the Argentine...
Prabhupāda: Refugees.
Brahmānanda: So they have just uncovered a list of names. It was put in the paper. The economy of Argentina is almost ninety percent on beef production, animal slaughter.
Hari-śauri: The biggest beef country in the world.
Prabhupāda: They eat beef only.
Brahmānanda: And export all over the world.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I've seen that they eat beef in the morning, noon and evening. I personally saw in South America that in these South American countries they eat meat sometimes three meals in a day. Of course, in America they do it also. I remember in restaurants in Mexico they were doing that. Very big meat-eaters.
Prabhupāda: In Russia also, simply eating meat.
Brahmānanda: Meat and vodka.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Brahmānanda: They have no vegetables available. I read in the newspapers here in India now that Poland, they are putting up a vodka factory. Punjab.
Prabhupāda: What is that vodka?
Brahmānanda: It's a liquor made from potato. So now they're making a factory in Punjab.
Prabhupāda: Punjab?
Brahmānanda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: So government has allowed.
Brahmānanda: Oh, yes. So they will make vodka here for exporting to Poland because the Polish people like vodka very much. So now they will produce in India.
Prabhupāda: The Polish Embassy is there near our Calcutta for seeing this business going on.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Side by side, we are on the opposite business.
Prabhupāda: (chuckles) Things are deteriorating everywhere.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Very quickly.
Prabhupāda: So this will give impetus to Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati (BG 4.7). Don't be disappointed. Kṛṣṇa will act through His movement and kill them, these demons. How it will be done, that you cannot know now, but it will be done. Let us remain true soldiers. That's all. And if it is a fight, suppose we die in the fight. The fight means with vow, with determination either to gain victory or die. Because it is fight against māyā, why we shall be afraid of being killed? Where there is fight, one must know that "Either I am going to be killed or gain victory." Jīvo vā māro vā. Those who are devotees, either they live or they die—the same thing. While they live they are serving Kṛṣṇa; when they die they will serve Kṛṣṇa. Jīvo vā māro vā. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti (BG 4.9). He goes to Kṛṣṇa. (laughs) So what is the loss? We are working for Kṛṣṇa, and if we die we go to Kṛṣṇa. So what is the loss? Same business.