How Vodka Ruined Russia
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2023
- Vodka is the Russian Army's #1 enemy. It's killed more Russians than every war, combined. And in recent days, it's crippled the Russian Army's performance in its fight against Ukraine.
In this Russian history documentary, we explore the devastating impact vodka has had on the Russian Army. From poisoning incidents, to causing strategic disasters, vodka has truly ruined the Russian military. Then, we follow the history of vodka in Russia, from the Russian Empire, to the Soviet Union, to the reign of Vladimir Putin.
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Russian commanders drink a bottle of vodka per day: thehill.com/opinion/internati...
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This is why we call 'ol Vlad the "Gremlin in the Kremlin," and all his little helpers "Kremlin Gremlins..." SLAVA UKRAINE!!!
Russian alcohol consumption has fallen by 43% since its peak in 2003
Average alcohol consumption per person:
Russia 10.42 liters
UK 10.82 litres
Spain 10.92
France 11.3
Poland 11.63 liters
Germany 12.22 liters
Source WHO
Patreon lol? CIA not paying you enough?
That stat is from 2003 through 2016. It doesn’t account for the spike back up in the years following Putin’s removal of the restrictions.
@@icarusproject The percentage of young Russians aged 14 to 22 who consume alcohol decreased by 2.3 times from 62.1% to 26.9% between 2006 and 2019.
I doubt they'll suddenly start drinking alcohol in 2023.
Now, to give to Putin some credit. Within the last year, he successfully stopped alcoholism from being the No.1 cause of death among Russian men.
Underrated joke hahaha
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😂 true
@@chriskessell4579 Europa: The Last Battle is a neo-Nazi propaganda film. Source: Wikipedia
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Vladimir Harkonnen: He who controls the spice, controls the universe
Vladimir Putin: He who controls vodka, controls the Russian populace
U.S: Write that down. WRITE THAT DOWN!
Russian alcohol consumption has fallen by 43% since its peak in 2003
Average alcohol consumption per person:
Russia 10.42 liters
UK 10.82 litres
Spain 10.92 liters
France 11.3 liters
Poland 11.63 liters
Germany 12.22 liters
Source WHO
@@slawawacker Yes but its also very important to put down what sort of alcohol is consumed.
Since UK, Poland and Germany will be mostly beer and Spain and France will be wine which are low alcohol content while Russia drinks mostly vodka which has a high alcohol content.
@@mrfun177 Consumption in litres of PURE alcohol
@@slawawacker then i highly doubt those numbers with the rampant alcoholism in Russia compared to all the other nations you listed.
In another intercepted call from Russian troops, one guy told his mom that they didn’t have enough food, got their water from rain puddles and slept on the ground in small group of trees without so much as a tarp….but they managed to get vodka. Mom thought drinking on duty wasn’t a great idea, but got a “what else can I do?!” response from the conscript.
Those calls are all fake. Urkaine cut off phone acces to Russian SIMs and devices on March 3rd; none of the calls are real as they physically cannot happen.
Any proof of this?
@@buddymacbuddington
Look this up:
ДІДЖИТАЛ РОСІЙСЬКО-УКРАЇНСЬКА ВІЙНА
З України більше не можна зателефонувати до Росії: що відомо
03 березня 2022 в 21:33
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I even got it for you in the original Ukrainian.
@@buddymacbuddington 80 proof
@ranranran8316 ill take it as no evidence then original poster was just spouting shit with no back up
Ukrainian partisans should leave Vodka crates for Russian soldiers to drink, not even poison them just help them be constantly drunk so they are battle ineffective.
Or if they spike them, put laxatives or emetics in instead.
Suggested that very thing in the second month of the invasion but nobody picked up on it, unfortunately.
Getting people to drink something is a lot harder than just shelling them.
Not a good idea mate the first thing the Germans did when there town was about to be overrun by the Russians they’d destroy all the alcohol so the Russians would rape/kill less, should always be poison tbh
Ukrainians would drink them themselves first because of the awful situation they're in, being forcefully conscripted, having a terrible economy, having a terrible future and all that,
When I lived in Moscow in 97 it was a wolf winter with tempratures regularly falling below -30 degrees celsius, The then mayor Juri Lushkov decided to pretend to be humanitarian and gather all the homeless people with army trucks and deposit them at the local rubbish dumps where they burnt rubbish so that these less fortunates could get some heat. Problem is he forgot they were all serious alchohol fiends and they passed out at the rubbish dumps which meant over 70 were cooked to death
Just like Putin empties the ethnic oblasts, jails,drunks,druggies,HIV ,TB and Hepatitis into the frontline trenches. Calculated removal of problems.
In Moscow this was probably considered a case of "problem solved!"
Capitalist lies! Everyone knows there was no homelessness in Soviet Union.
@@erloriel kinda feels like they knew this would happen
My god, this english hurts my years. BurnED!
I remember watching a documentary on the First Chechen war where they interviewed a Spetznaz soldier who seemed to have even more contempt for drunken regular infantry than the Chechen guerillas he was fighting.
Do you by any chance remember the name of that documentary?
Well the Chechens - being muslim - should at least have been sober.
I remember That interview!
From the late 1960's up to the collapse of the USSR my father was the de facto Soviet Consul in Shoreham (near Brighton) on the South Coast of England.
Shoreham was one of the major timber importing ports in the UK at the time. On occasions you could have as many as 10 to 15 Soviet ships in the port at any one time.
I remember Dad having to spend a lot of time in Brighton having to sort issues with drunken seamen!
Drunks are infuriating when you're trying to get things done and they keep getting in the way and messing everything up.
I can't even begin to imagine how apoplectic soldiers must be when it's their men who are too drunk to do their jobs...
God that be murderously enraging.
That stuff is how do you say it. AAH SWILL
This war has really inspired me to dig deep into history to understand the hows and whys of Russian history, and It's unimaginably depressing stuff. I really do feel pity for the average Russian being so ruthlessly exploited by their rulers for so long. I truly think nationwide PTSD is actually a thing, and Russian alcoholism is a direct response to being so deeply repressed. Again, fantastic research and presentation!
The Russian people seem to have been abused and exploited nonstop for nearly a century. To the point where poverty and hardship has become cultural to them
This is literally the same for ALL dictatorship countries. North Korea, China, all African countries, etc. There are more than 50 dictators today in the world, and all of the populations where they reside are under extreme distress and are being exploited. When people think of communist dictatorships they only think of North Korea but that is not the case. There are so terribly more countries where shit is fucked but nobody actually thinks of the Russian Federation as a dictatorship anymore. But it is.
Closer to a millennia than a century, unfortunately.
It's USA who invaded and destroyed multiple countries including Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria and US has been continuously drone bombing the the Middle East for last two and a half decades but of course all that is justified cause it's the US doing it. Duh.
I can recommend an audio book by Martin Sixsmith. His summary is that at every moment in Russia's history the country chooses an autocratic tyrant rather modern political structures.
As a Polish person, most of time I'm ashamed of my country's invention.
But I'm glad it helps Ukrainian folk in recent times.
Poland has been a magnificent ally to Ukraine, and a prominent critic of the Kremlin regime....you Polish people should be proud.
There is nothing wrong with the vodka in fact it gives people a lot of relaxation and fun, the problem is with the over consumption and creating an entire culture around it.
Drinking to relax is normal, drinking to excess is stupid !
Polish vodka is smooth though.
I'm not sure if Poland actually invented Wodka first. It doesn't mater. If it comes from Finland, its the best.
Now, being glad for Ukrain, I'm surely not happy of polisch conservative liberal cristians blocking demoracy and defiling rule of law dominating are the good guys.
But I'll take a glass on that. Whisky, on the rocks.
Didnt hindu people invent destilation?
For a beautiful country, people sure are miserable living in it. Imagine drinking a lot of vodka just to cope living in your surroundings.
Russian alcohol consumption has fallen by 43% since its peak in 2003
Average alcohol consumption per person:
Russia 10.42 liters
UK 10.82 litres
Spain 10.92 liters
France 11.3 liters
Poland 11.63 liters
Germany 12.22 liters
Source WHO
@@slawawacker I believe they may not have accounted for DIY alcohol, which I understand to be much more prevalent in Russia.
@@misterx-gy3fg As a result of government actions, the period from 2003 to 2017 saw the prevalence of alcohol dependence in patients registered in state-run treatment services fall by 38%, the prevalence of harmful use of alcohol drop by 54%, and the prevalence of alcoholic psychosis reduce by 64%. Additionally, cardiovascular deaths, which are thought to mirror changes in per capita alcohol consumption, showed a decline of 48% in men and 52% in women during the same period. And homicides, suicides, and deaths from transport accidents-all further indirect indicators of the effects of alcohol consumption-decreased by 56% in both sexes during this time.
At least for Germany I can say most of that consumption is bear.
(Here in Bavaria it even has a lower tax rate because it counts as a fundamental foodstuff)
With drinking culture at least where I live is quite regularly but not getting shit faced.
And I think drinking culture can really make a difference.
I don't know much about Russian drinking culture so I don't feel comfortable making a blanket statement.
@@slawawacker Yes, those points would certainly support your assertion!
One of my favorite speculations in history is that the enlightenment took place partly because people started drinking coffee instead of alcohol
Also the smoking of tobacco, nicotine is a pretty strong nootropic.
Doesn't really make much sense, though. The development of a strong middle class through advances in technology made it pretty much inevitable.
In fact, because the quality of life has improved. In poor countries there is always a high level of alcoholism, smoking tobacco or consuming some other crap that gives a short-term “high” but is addictive
Before people drank coffee, they drank chocolate. Brought back from the New World during the age of exploration.
Intriguing but then remembered Islam.
My ex worked for a subcontractor in charge of retrieving boosters for NASA. They had an exchange program with employees from Russia. My ex was in charge of accompanying the 13 Russian employees. At 3:00 on the first day they all pulled out their Vodka. They found it amazing that in the US we don’t drink on the job.
Putin is a firm believer in the old Italian phrase, "The mother of the stupid is always pregnant." Or its Russian equivalent.
wouldnt even say its a putin thing. Alcoholism was so bad during Soviet times that the first post soviet president, formerly the top ranking soviet, was viewed as a laughing stock both at home and abroad simply because he was the first Russian politician to be exposed to a free press. A Soviet fleet once lost a bunch of top admirals due to a plane crash because the passengers got drunk and overloaded the plane and its likely the planes crew had been drinking too. Booze was found even in the control rooms of Chernobyl and drunkenness was one of the main causes of the disaster. Under Stalin food grain was sacrificed to make more vodka and people were paid in vodka even when people starved. The Winter War and the beginning of WW2 went so badly for Russia partially due to rampant alcoholism and drunkeness. One of the USSRs main ways to pay people, make income, and to control the populace was vodka. I dont remember the numbers but vodka was by far the Tsars top revenue sources, if i remember right even into WW1 the state made more off vodka than they did off industry meaning alcohol was more important to the economy than factories and from what I've read one of the only rasons the Soviets cant say the same was thanks to their massive oil and gas reserves. Putin just picked up the legacy of Stalin, Lenin, and Nicholas.
@@arthas640 FACT 👍
@@arthas640In fact alcohol consumption fell by 43% under Putin, alcohol deaths and poisoning fell drastically and average life expectancy increased by over 10 years since 2008
@@lrn_news9171Life expectancy in russia is now 70 yrs, still 12 years
lower than most civilised countries...
@@patverum9051 Life expectancy as of 2023 is 73 years old and increasing steadily. The point was Russia improved and this point has been made sufficiently. 43% decline in alcohol consumption now on par with Germany.
By the way, life expectancy is set to fall in the United States, but Russia is set to increase steadily. Russia is now the biggest organic food producer in the world with a very low obesity rate.
As someone who used to drink A LOT, a problem I had was that my nose and cheeks turned red even when I wasn't drinking. You can see this in a lot of pictures of russian soldiers.
I hope you're over it now.
Rhinophyma
@@16rumpole that's something else
I went skiing and my nose got sunburned, as my goggles didn't cover it and my baklava kept sluding down. At the end of the week, nice red nose. Between the "Found the bar, did you?" jokes and comparisons to Rudolph thecred nosed reindeer, I had many reasons to hate being back at work.
@philiptownsend4026 I actually reverted to Islam I can't drink anymore
Vodka ruined Russia.
it ruined russia long before the federation the ussr dating back to the empire
Russians ruined Russia
Russia also uses vodka to contorll the people
Russian alcohol consumption has fallen by 43% since its peak in 2003
Average alcohol consumption per person:
Russia 10.42 liters
UK 10.82 litres
Spain 10.92 liters
France 11.3 liters
Poland 11.63 liters
Germany 12.22 liters
Source WHO
@slawawacker but Germans would most likely drink beer while russians drink hard vodka. Your comment is pointless.
There was a family so desperate for alcohol they started drinking hand sanitizer which killed them all. So sad to see alcoholism and addiction make people do the craziest things. I’ve struggled with addiction and still do, it never fully goes away but the self control has to be strong.
Same here my friend. Was a cocaine addict for 15 years. Been nearly a year clean now and what I've found is the cravings never go away but you learn to deal with them a lot better. When I was first getting off it people couldn't even call coca cola "coke" around me because it set me off. Now I look back and it makes me laugh almost. Wasted my late teens and 20s on that shiy
@@christycullen2355
The first thing I think of when someone says addiction is actually coca cola. >.>
The stuff they sell today has an addictive quality to it. Once you stop drinking it for awhile you lose the addiction your body adjusts to normal and you can taste what its really like. Horrible flavor.
More on topic to your story,... did the stories of how cocaine used to be in that drink back ages ago cause you to react to it, or just the name itself? "coca" leaf is the main ingredient for both, hence the name.
Withdrawal mustve been a pretty hard. I can only imagine.
One day at a time my brother.
God has you in his hands.
As a former heavy drinker from Russia, I can confidently say that the consumption of alcohol strongly depends on quality of your life, your level of happiness in general. An obvious fact. A lot of people in Russia aren't happy with their quality of life with small salaries and rising taxes and prices. Government wants us to think that they're fighting alcoholism with rising alcohol excire taxes every year. But the only consequence it has is that now poor people can't afford good quality vodka (even though not all of it is actually that good on a mass market) and they buy cheap replacements which often contain methyl alcohol, so, basically, even more people are dying.
Instead of making people's lifes better with effective social policies, the government is just contributing to this huge problem with ubiquitous alcohol abuse.
Life is so much better without that poison. I wonder how many have died from withdrawal.
My late father's words regarding the Yugoslav War: "The only way to preserve our sanity during the war was to get drunk most of the time."
It is disturbing researching how widespread and brutal spousal/partner abuse is in Russia, fuelled by alcohol use
Right, it never happens here in America.
@@strfltcmnd.9925who tf ever said that 😂
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I would call it a “Special Drinking Operation.”
Yes, *Sto Gram* in excess.
Hey, look, its Homestar!
There is a reason we have in Finnish verb "Ryssiä" , roughly meaning "to totally fail something".
In Poland we have "you are doing that in a russian way" and it means you are doing it wrong, or not in the best possible way 😂
@@adrianredzik725 hahaha these are awesome
Could you please tell me, what's exactly?
@@user-kv3ww2gb2e You have to be Finnish to really understand the meaning..
@@janko6608
Really?
Another God chosen people?😂
The half of that Russian troop that survived the poisoned laced vodka wants to know where they can get more of it
Vodka? No, now we call it "Freedom Potato Juice."
The Irish took potatoes and invented potato crisps, the Russians invented vodka
Except it is very possible that poles invented the vodka.
Fun fact: In Czechia we have vodka brand named "Stalinovy Slzy" (literally "Stalin's Tears"). It tastes pretty bad but mixed with OJ it was popular with students due to lower price xD
Alcohol is one the worse drugs, if it was invented today, it would be illegal!
There are many things that fall into the category of 'if it was invented today it would be banned', that doesn't mean that everything is terrible, it means that we are less tolerant !
Motorcycles, chainsaws, portable angle grinders (tool for thieves), petrol, explosives etc, etc.
Prohibition can make everything worse.. but in that manner alcohol is much worse than something like opiates, that if opiate addiction gets treated and user gets his daily dose from doctor (right dose, right kind of opiate..) it won't make addict unable to function and live normal life.. same thing can't be done with alcohol addiction.
Alcohol causes horrible problems even under lawful use, drug users problems are higly influenced by problems caused by prohibition.
@@jm8k Most people don't understand how bad alcohol addiction is. It's far worse than being a heroin addict. At the least, a heroin overdose is a quick death, liver failure is most definitely not.
Only since I quit have I realised the grip it has on people. Now I know how it scrambles a brain, I'm amazed there are not major political campaigns to get us off it.
@@TonyBustaroni If comparing only addiction yes, but that's only one way drugs can be harmful to user. Meth is very much more harmful substance in long run, weed is not poisonous so weed can be consumed even in daily basis without it having bad effects to health. Differences in person are of course important but it doesn't mean there's no differences in these substances.
And meth causes serious withdraval symptoms so it's much more likely to make serious addiction to meth than weed. So there's differences in addiction too. And as weed is not that bad to health, weed addiction may not be allways so big problem if it's possible to just satisfy that need and live with high weed consumption. Trying to live with high meth consumption is not that easy..
Of course there can be destructive addiction towards allmost anything but it doesn't make anything equally addictive and specially not equally harmful.
I had serious drug problems before, from early 2000's to 2019.. having tested something like 150 different chemicals back then. Stimulates like mdpv was my thing as I imported them myself from china and made very high drug consumption possible that way. Usual amphetamines was just waste of time after that and my own way of import was dying out as laws changed.. so I needed to stop, my heath was getting worse too. Paralysis, psychosis, there was lots of times in hospital in that lifestyle. Those drugs would have had me killed if I wasn't able to withdrav myself. So do I have that addictive mind or not, but I smoke weed, allmost daily, it has not been a problem for me or people close to me. I can be without weed if there's something else to do, but as I'm retired because of my health issues there rarely is. Weed consumption doesn't require me to make that scale of crimes and I'm not doing any harm to myself or others by that. Weed consumption is not killing me, like I would allmost certainly be dead if I've continued.. I also dont drink any alcohol, that would kill me most quickly as I have kidney condition.. So you are really wrong by that, it's not like these things are same because they all can cause addiction and some people are more drawn towards addictive behaviour than others.
I live in Vancouver. Crack heads, meth heads, insane people are commonly found in our city. I went to Russia a long time ago and was shocked at how many publicly drunk men there were in St. Pete's and Moscow. Obviously bigger cities than Vancouver, but the problem was significantly worse.
"A long time ago" yeah. Alcohol consumption fell by 43% in Russia. Alcohol poisoning and deaths drastically declined as well, life expectancy for men increased by more than 10 years since 2008
@@lrn_news9171And who makes these statistics?
@@IhaveBigFeet Idk but source is WHO
@@IhaveBigFeet Alcohol sales are probably a good indicator for how much people are drinking.
@@IhaveBigFeet Russia introduced restrictions on alcohol such as doubling the price of alcohol via taxation I believe and having the liquor stores close down earlier, prohibiting the sale of alcohol passed 9 pm I think.
This problem doesn't just plague the russian army, it plagues us too. When I was in the army we had a pretty bad drug problem with alot of soldiers getting kicked out for their addictions... Drug use, alcoholism and getting prostitutes all those are very common in most armies.
Shh, US is perfect. Perfect hegemon of the world. They will drone bomb any country to stone age, install puppet govt and funnel all the wealth to US contractors for "reconstruction". They funneled Russian wealth in the 90's with Larry Summers and his cronies too but shhh.
Russian alcohol consumption has fallen by 43% since its peak in 2003
Average alcohol consumption per person:
Russia 10.42 liters
UK 10.82 litres
Spain 10.92 liters
France 11.3 liters
Poland 11.63 liters
Germany 12.22 liters
Source WHO
@@slawawackerBased on data from the Russian state. Considering how Russia has falsified covid death and war causality numbers, I would take those numbers with a grain of salt.
@@slawawackerWHO pointing to rosstat as a source
@@slawawacker Problem is not the amount of alchohol drank but how strong it is......Russian Vodka being a lot stronger than say the wine which accounts for most French and Italian consumption by volume or English and German beer. The other major problem is that alongside the legal measured alcohol shown in official figures the Russians also drink a lot of home brewed moonshine cooked up by anyone with a Dacha and a few potatoes and that stuff can be true fire water. Not saying Russia drinks nothing other than spirits or that other countries do not drink spirits or brew stuff at home. But their is a reason France linked with Wine, Germany with Beer and Russia with Vodka. Pretty sure my liver would sooner deal with 11.3 liters of Wine than 10.42 liters of Vodka
I think it's safe to say the Russian Empire would have been done for, were it not for vodka. Great work.
In the intercepted calls from Russian troops, one Russian guy is advising a buddy not to eat or drink any food or alcohol left in houses in Ukraine, and not to take any food from locals, saying a nice Ukrainian grandmother brought them baked goods that made 8 of them violently ill.
And yes, Russia set them up for this, with Russian propaganda videos, touting that going to Ukraine is great, saying that Ukrainians would bring Russian troops gifts of fresh baked bread. They were partly right…it just had some extra ingredients.
Hope the grandmother was okay.
As someone who unknowingly drank spike beer (fortunately my strong constitution meant I remained in control, albeit with difficulty in my faculties) I normally would condemn the tampering with food and drink... normally.
They obviously underestimated the dislike of Ukrainians for Russian presence before the revolution.
Who else believes in these fake calls lol?
The Russians have been conditioned like this for centuries. They never got a break from terrible rulers. The ones that leave Russia lead better lives, they are free, work hard, raise families and contribute to the country they live in and are happy. It's a shame alright.
My Scottish grandfather explained his family leaving Glasgow for England, "anyone with get up and go, got up and went". It's whiskey there.
@robertfarrow5853
Scots are just Irish people, makes sense.
@@robertfarrow5853 "It's whiskey there." As in whiskey in England, io England is a better place? I am an American, so maybe I'm missing something.
А с чего вы все взяли, что в России много пьют? Из этого ролика? Приедь в мою страну и посмотри на реальную обстановку и не смотри пропаганду.
My cousin is a Paramedic for a major West Coast city. He tells me that Russians are masses at exploiting the financial and social benefits that the Federal and California governments provide. These scammers all need to be deported.
When Medvedev was president in 2008-2012, he was a figurehead only. Putin during this time was prime minister and was still really in charge. Vodka regulations didn't come into place to help the populace, they came into place so that the life of a drunk Russian got "worse" when Putin was gone, and then got "better" when Putin was back in charge.
A movie should be made about this, it's incredible 😅
My father was an incurable alcoholic. I lost count how many interventions we attempted, but all failed. He drank and smoked himself to death in his mid 50s. His drink of choice? Vodka. When I went to clean up his apartment after he died, there were empty plastic vodka bottles literally knee-deep covering the living room floor. He and I have zero Russian ancestry.
I quit drinking myself not long after he died, but even when I did drink, I never touched vodka, because I knew how dangerous it was... That said, I hope the Russian soldiers keep drinking it so they can meet my father's fate, the sooner the better. Na zdorovie, comrades!
u rooting for the nazis?!
@z: You rooting for no key caps? Slava Ukraine!
@@zillsburyy1 Dude, read the second to last sentence again.
@@zillsburyy1 Hate speech reported, may you soon be drafted.
Vodka is a great drink for a alcoholic. It's incredibly cheap. Even terribly badly made vodka is very drinkable, without offending taste of smell. The overall flavour is fairly mild, while whisky, gin, rum or things like Jägermeister often are an aquired taste. By being almost pure ethanol and water it reduces hangovers. Almost perfect to get wasted on.
This is like a nightmare that keeps cycling over and over again with no end in sight.
Fetal alcohol syndrome explains a lot about the Russians i saw interviews with on 1420 and LVIV Media podcasts. The low ability to grasp facts, reason and process information.
In other words, Putin is the worst thing to happen to Russia since Stalin.
Recently read "One soldiers war" by Arkady Babchenko. He touches on how fellow soldiers were drinking all the time which led to violence among his peer and leadership.
People wonder why the Us military will never ever allow weed in active reserve or guard. It’s only allowed in specific veteran treatment plans.
Thanks to videos like this I'm easily reducing my alcohol intake! Thank you very much, from the bottom of my heart (like fr, healthwise).
I remember the fate of the farm horse in the novel ANIMAL FARM. Instead of supporting the most loyal comrade in his old age, they sold him to the glue factory. Vodka is Russia's glue factory for its pensioners.
Drinking was spread all over USSR countries not only in Russia. I dont know how the ex USSR countries dealt with alcohol problem but I believe those who grew up in USSR are already poisoned so, it must be going on to all ex USSR countries but in Russia is the worst due to dictatorship. I met Romanians, Ukranians, Chech, Germans, in my country and they all are heavy drinkers as well as GEORGIANS but Russians as well. They can drink anything in all hours.
Having spent some time there I can vouch for much of this although I'm not sure alcohol abuse is wide ranging among the general population. I saw drunks every day on the streets and at bus stops in the mornings as they tended to stay up all night on the cheap beer at $1/litre (and some even less) for the cheap stuff. When they argued in the street at 2am it was annoying. I don't think vodka was their drink of choice although admittedly for me it was cheap, but beer was cheaper. BTW Putinka vodka was one of my favourites, but of course that was way before all this tragedy went down.
Also keep in mind that drugs are also available there and is also an issue.
Russian alcohol consumption has fallen by 43% since its peak in 2003
Average alcohol consumption per person:
Russia 10.42 liters
UK 10.82 litres
Spain 10.92 liters
France 11.3 liters
Poland 11.63 liters
Germany 12.22 liters
Source WHO
I have spent some time there also. The types of people I was with (ran orphanages) weren't sloshed all the time. But they would get in a funk & drink heavily to be sure. It can be a hidden problem. Especially in the provinces. It is like any country. You have some that won't touch it, but most do & many times to excess. Ergo all the orphans. Some other channels paint a much more bleak picture but it is usually localized. Not like the whole country is that way.
Let's see, Tennessee is having huge problems with Opioids, especially fentanyl, but our local government made it practically impossible to sue Big Pharma, and our Oxycontin Queen of Tennessee Blackburn didn't return money from her donors, Chinese Opioid producers.
There is so much about alcoholism and drug abuse in Russia. 😂😂😂
@@slawawacker really? my god. i wonder how much vodka swedes drink? i usually avoid it but beer/wine/cider is fine. here in sweden the "systembolaget" has monopoly on alcohol and it's very expensive but you can find the weaker type of beer (nothing else) in grocery stores (3.5% max)
As a recovering vodka addict, i can tell you that the taste eventually doesnt bother you. It's like your brain mutates to suggest otherwise. It made me think of Squirt.
Fuck alcohol smoke weed 👍
Amazing video as always. Keep up the great work!
Just found this channel. I was shocked to see 50k subs with this kind quality context, graphics, etc.. should have at least 250k
История повторяется дважды - сначала в виде трагедии, потом в виде фарса
Fantastic report! Darn, Putin bit by his own snake.......cool.
Its very fucking inaccurate 😂😂. Did it happen yes, but its not that many that it affected the war that bad. Dont act like US soldiers dont do drugs😂😂
Keep on with the outstanding content, your channel is going to expand greatly in no time with this content and editing!
"Never get high off your own supply."
-Putin
I discovered your channel recently. And it's fantastic!
Welcome aboard!
Hmmmmmm, profile page says "The Icarus Project@icarusproject39.3K subscribers21 videos
Documenting the downfall of Russia with humor and wit."
I'm sure this isn't propaganda or manipulating in bad faith at all!
An extremely interesting and thoughtful investigation into a little-known bit of history.
So I just subscribed.
Thank you.
I'l totally down for the 12h long "dumb things russian soldiers did while drunk part 1"
Hats off to the Ukrainians for taking out half a company with poisoned vodka. They definitely know their enemy well!
I think they missed a trick here, though; in addition to poisoning they should have waited until the Russian soldiers were too shitfaced to defend themselves, then done a Red Wedding and slaughtered them all.
During the cold war, TU-22 flight crews would drink the ac "coolant" after a flight. It was free and got the job done.
That' story is crazy 😂
But true. The TU-22 hat an air conditioning system which worked by evaporating alcohol. What remained after the flight was distributed among the soldiers.
It was ethanol used to cool the engines, not the pilots. @@thiloreichelt4199
Mig-25, too - “the Flying Restaurant/ the Flying *Distillery”*
The German V2 rocket used alcohol for fuel, there are many stories of truck loads of it going missing during testing forcing them to switch to a less drinkable substance !
When you are in the Russian army and you get your daily vodka ration: 😁
getting paid in vodka basically like if it's a currency (definitely more valuable than the ruble, lol)
Who said Vodka was the 'Unofficial' drink of Ruzzia? It has always been the Official Drink as long as I can remember.
Tea, it's tea, per capita and absolute, no competition. The army even gets tea rations, RosCosMos sends it to space, and universities offer free tea at exam crunch times.
There's also this russian cultural thing were you're considered an alcoholic if you drink alone/ pour your own drink, yourself.
So naturally the average russian is drinking not alone, but with his whole company, 'coz they're not alcoholics after all
its like saying someone doesent have a coke problem if they only do it with company
The west should send truckload after truckload of vodka to the Russian army. 😂
Yes, well-aged, charcoal filtered, and most of all, *overproof* - e.g. “144 proof brain cleaning solvent.”
@@dennisyoung4631 Get all the stills of Appalachia on it.
@@Shaker626 no, shipping would be an issue - at least, shipping the finished stuff.
Best to make the equipment needed, then crate up the “eighteen-stage column stills”, 100(0) liter mash tubs, grain-grinders, filtering columns - as well as the raw feedstock stuff needed to make ample amounts of “Brain Cleaning Solvent” - and send it to locations in Ukraine well back from the front lines. Doubtlessly there are plenty of “Aunties” there who know just *how* to make “the very best Horilka” - and then, it just needs sneaking into the occupied areas, and planting where the Ruské Soldati will find it!.
Oh, and add a little phenolphthalein for “flavoring.” Trashed Ruské with their bowels in a dither should cause maximum disruption!
Then, once the Ruské have gone back to where they came from, or are stinking up compost heaps making fertilizer - the distilleries can be used for making more prosaic materials for “celebrations” and exporting.
Fantastic Video. Very eye openning.
I've also heard - true or not - that wodka bottles are designed in a way, that once you open them, you cant close them, so you have to empty the entire bottle at once...
Это бред полнейший.
Ukraine should just leave bottles of vodka laying around the battlefield. That should do the trick.
Poisoned vodka ! 😉👍
@ianc4901 honestly, regular vodka will do as well.
If they are too drunk to fight, then they are too drunk to win.
to quote a comment... russia doesnt have a vodka problem... vodka has a russia problem
High five to the ukranian senior citizens
I've said quite a few times that many thousands of bottles of vodka should be left for the Russian army to discover... then it would be so easy to despatch them.
They got what they deserved. They should have stayed on their side of the fence and not played fast and loose with their neighbor's lands.
Fair go mate, the life of Private Konscriptovich is not a good one...
Great report thank you
Who would have guessed that alcoholism would be used as mind control?
Russian Army:
Anyone who has been to a bar. The mind control effects of alcohol is the only explanation to explain how women would suddenly think I'm funny and good looking.
Yeah how about you look at Ukraine first, this stereotype about us Russians and Belarusians from you westerners has to stop, Ukrainians, gypies and poles drink way more than us do, our alcoholism ended somewhere in the early 2010's when we got out of the economic crisis caused by the fall of the USSR and fully recovered, and our country was doing great again, unlike Ukraine where its salaries stayed low, Had a coup in 2014 followed by seperatists in the novorossiya region, and currently are suffering from forced conscription, seeing a terrible future, having a terrible economy, having lost 20 million people due to them fleeing the country who are planning to never return as they got new jobs and friends, especially the ones who have been out of Ukraine for longer than a year which are most of them, as result you got a gigantic loss of jobs, the issue of being in extreme debt due to the US exchange act where every form of aid is a loan, so Ukraine is in deeper debt than all countries recovering from ww2 combined, over 250 billion dollars, that's why they drink way more than us, especially now.
@@valyshknee4203 Source: The same state media that says Prigozhin died in an accident and the "Special Military Operation" isn't a war.
@@badluck5647 yeah and you get your source straight from the losing nation, ukraine, would you yourself believe germany too if it said it was winning the war because it managed to gain back some ground in the ardennes in late 1944?
because that is what i see in zaphorizia happening right now, its the same thing germany reported "WE TOOK BACK A FEW VILLAGES IN THE ARDENNES! MAJOR VICTORY! THE AMERICANS ARE ON THE RUN! DEUTSCHLAND IST NOCH NICHT VERLOREN!"
and today its "WE TOOK BACK A FEW VILLAGES IN ZAPHORIZIA! RUSSIA IS ON A FAST TRACK TO ITS DEMISE! SLAVA UKRAINI!"
@@valyshknee4203 No it dident lol, you guys are as always, a bunch of braindead drunks, no amount of your state media lies will change that
Hats off to the Ukrainians who thought to lace the vodka with poison
For the first time in theirs live they learn that vodka can be poison 😂
Old trick. They did the same thing to the NAZI's
I'm from Scotland, in 2003 I was in Finland, and met in with some Russian's in a hotel, we went out drinking, I thought they could drink a lot, but they couldn't, I was just warming up when they starting falling about and getting into fights, they couldn't hold their drink, I went on drinking long after they were had gone away to their beds
Ну вот, а говорят что русские много пьют.
They probably were drinking all day, before joining you.
@@davidtrindle6473 No, they had been out shopping
Fascinating. Thanks!
Amazing insight of information thank u
The title of this video should be "how being Russian ruined the Russian army".
don’t drink the kool-aid
Or, “don’t drink the Samogon.”
Why i never drink any alcohol. Better sober and alive then dead drunk
Outstanding. Thank you.
funny how vodka is russias 'national drink' yet it was invented in poland
Same as Guinness is supposedly an Irish drink but legend says it was invented in wales 🏴
Водка это национальный напиток России только в пропагандистских роликах. Я русский и употребляю алкоголь 2-3 раза в год, только по праздникам.
Vladimir Putin was bitten by his own snake. After three days of agonising pain, the snake died.
… so, would that be an event of herpetocide by Venomir Venomirovitch, or might “Vipermir” say it better?
At the factory I used to work at, russian workers were notorious for drinking Isopropanol straight out of the spray bottles. That's 70% industrial alcohol used for machine cleaning. The problem was so bad that random drug and alcohol checks were introduced for everyone.
They sound low IQ and poorly educated.
Also a shocking truth: an average german or british person consumes more alcohol than a russian person each year (you can easily google that statistic)
Its impossible to find out how much the average Russian person drinks per year
Reason 1: from who they have the information? From the Russian government and they don’t tell the right information to the world.
Reason 2: russia is way to big and has 1000 of small zivilisations spread so far from each other and isolated that it’s impossible to find out what the average of them all is
Reason3: a very big part of official Russian citizens are actually not Russians. There are many Muslim minorities that don’t drink alcohol like chechens, tatars, Ingush, dagestanis and many more. they officially Russian citizens and are calculated in the „average Russian person drinking“ but they are no russians.
Don’t believe all that google tells you and yes Russians drink way more than Germans or British people
That's so sad, I think I'll have a drink to forget what I've learned...
I worked with a few Russian people when i used to do resin flooring and they would do 8 hours of work half drunk, then go to their van sit on site for another 4 hours in the van drinking (we had tracked vans and we worked nights because we needed the whole building to lay floors) so they could claim overtime. It ended in one of the lads crashing the van and ruined overtime for all of us. They were genuinely surprised we didnt drink on the job as well.
Vodka arguably ruined the entire country. Russia has a major alcohol problem at home (especially in rural Russia) and it brought that into the war.
In Siberia, a study of 3 industrial towns found that alcohol played a role in 52% of deaths of men aged 15 to 54. That’s a staggeringly large figure.
Russia’s average life expectancy for men is 64 years, and for women it’s 74 years, alcohol plays a huge role in that inequality of outcome.
I imagine it helps with bearing with the cold weather.
I've always said Ukraine should leave or airdrop cases of vodka for the Russian soldiers. Just the good stuff, no need to add poison (because the Russian soldiers will eventually figure it out and not drink) to simply let the Russian troops get drunk, and then while drunk attack with an offensive column as the Russian soldiers are running around in a stupor unable to defend.
Russian will drink vodka even if it is laced with heavy laxatives, haha. Poor sods are just that desperate for comfort.
You can either take pride in being elected to lead by a vibrant and intelligent society, or become the dictator of a miserable society.
However, there is no pride to be taken in ruling over a miserable society, and you can't expect a miserable society to obtain great achievements.
That's also probably why Russia has been struggling with low birth rates as well for years. Not sure what the failed rate of pregnancy due to alcoholism is in Russia but I bet it's higher than most. Just 10 years ago, the Russian government was offering free land for people to move there and have X number of kids. Now with this war, all the young, baby making, working age men are getting killed off or chased out of the country. That's not going to end well.
The vodka story is very heartwarming. Love seeing Ukrainians come together to do a moral good
Украинцы пьют ещё больше.
One wonders if America is more drugged than Russia, especially considering how common it is for psychiatrist to prescribe intoxicating substances to their patients, and especially considering that many of these drugs interact strongly with alcohol.
"A country built and supported by hungover alcoholics is not a way to run a nation." -- Comrade Dean Wormer
Can confirm, it's true .Lived in Russia in a Soviet times while conscripted. 1988- 1990. Also last Tsar shared name with me.😂😂
"Now, you might be thinking this is just going to be a video about stupid things Russian soldiers did while they were drunk, but CZcams only allows us to upload a maximum of 12 hours in a single video" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I visited Russia in 2000. We stopped at a tourist shop that sold Russian souvenirs. They were giving customers a jiggerful of Vodka to sample before purchase. I took a sip of THEIR Vodka and I thought my head was going to EXPLODE. It felt like I was belching fire from my mouth! All of the store's employees got a hearty laugh out of watching me in my death throes. Good God, and these people imbibe a liter of this stuff everyday? I can now see why they do. Life is very, very bleak in Russia, with scant reasons to laugh and smile. Hopeless, actually. It's sad to see so much wasted potential because of an entrenched political system that concentrates power and wealth in a few oligarchs at the expense of the masses. Tragic.
9:47 whoa 😳 that was unsettling. Well done 👏
price minimums have been tried in Scotland and have been shown by numerous studies to have no effect. The problem is in Russia if you raise the price of Vodka, you will just get homebrew and illegally produced vodka with god knows what. Price minimums are just a way to raise revenue for the government and do nothing to curb usage
"only twelve hours of video" I was not expecting the entire Russian army to be decimated like that but I guess it is pretty normal these days
I think you missed his point, he implied it would take at least 12 hours is how it sounded to me.
I'm more of a beer guy. I just got done brewing a lavender and Blueberry Weisserbier. It's only about 3% abv, but it tastes fantastic.
Where's the "worth a shot" shirt? I'm trying to get one and I can't find it!!! Please, help
9:47 me after a few drinks be like...
I love that you have your Sources in the description!
It's the reason I subscribed