Russia's Alcohol Problem

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[@HW.0029]

Quitting alcohol is pretty easy actually, done that like 67 times already.

[@carpballet]

And that was just today. Tomorrow I’m shooting for 70.

[@boyankovachev7982]

Ahahshsgsgsgsgsgaga Riiiiiight, cuz stopping for an hour counts 😀😀😀😀😀

[@jwballer6]

Same w me and nicotine! Super easy

[@lakeshapitts6218]

😂😂😂😂

[@brownbear846]

🤦

[@charleshamilton9274]

World’s first trillionaire: the first Russian to perfect a synthetic liver.

[@matheussanthiago9685]

best part cyberpunk sci-fi shit is the artificial/cloned/lab grown/enhanced organs

[@Dr.Johnson]

Scientists recently found an enzyme in human body which causes fat loss, no matter how much you eat. Technically, it's possible to create an actually working fat loss pill (of course decades of research is still needed). Whoever will own the patent for that, is gonna be the richest man in the world over night.

[@charleshamilton9274]

Peter Sniffin - Well, it seems over a million humans die every year from starvation. The LAST thing we need are selfish gluttons eating far more than they need with impunity.

[@Lithrus_]

@@charleshamilton9274 economics though

[@ComradeHellas]

@@Dr.Johnson It will probably be sold cheap to some multi-billionaire corporation.

[@MarlonDeanMusicChannel]

Famous Russian anecdote: The daughter asks her father after alcohol price has risen: "Does that mean that you'll drink less?" Her father: "No, it means that you'll eat less."

[@badlad2001]

😂

[@mrweed5300]

ffs LOLOL!!!

[@netyimeni169]

Not funny

[@nopas77]

Russia have so strange stream in anectote black humor with. And count of this anecdotes increase in the black time for russians. Perhaps it is helps passing by this time for russians. Anyway, humor is only humor even black humor.

[@nopas77]

@Kulo Nuwun 30 years of capitalism in Russia what do you want?

[@linkinbigballz]

Me: You should never drink and drive Russian: Yes, you might end up spilling and wasting a drink

[@novydasb4660]

Not accurate, the penalties for doing that in russia are pronounced

[@Oliver-jw3dy]

@@novydasb4660 "🤓"

[@mail1856]

Currently Russia have zero tolerance for driving a car after drinking. Permitted level of alcohol is zero. If police will find any amount of an alcohol in your blood, first time you will ban for driving for a year, second time (for a whole life) you will go to the prison.

[@DMartinov]

@@mail1856 damn, life sentence for drunk driving - seems a bit extreme to me lol

[@salemblackcat-thehealthcat1]

@Давiд Мартiновiч But the driving accidents are brutal! Still though alcohol makes you more flexible in a drunk driving accident, so the chance of the drunk driver dying is low.

[@GeoPerspective]

Russian Traffic police stops a car. Policeman asked the man, Have you drunk vodka today? Driver: No. Policeman: Breathe into the tube... Well, no alcohol is detected... Maybe the tube is broken… (breathes into the tube himself) No, it's working!

[@taufiqidr]

Lmao

[@yoursleepparalysisdemon1828]

*haha, you got the whole squad laughing*

[@milenamalesevic3886]

*HAHA TOATALY NOT AMERICANISED PROPAGANDA THINKING, HAHA*

[@goromi8340]

Milena Malesevic WeirdChamp

[@ForOne814]

Russian Traffic police stops a car and asks the driver to breathe into the tube. It shows 0.8 pmm. "Well, you've got me" - says the driver. "Wanna bet $1000 that we didn't?" - asks the officer.

[@jorgealonso8742]

Russian traffic police: Did you drink vodka today? Driver: No, sir. Russian traffic police: *Want some?*

[@helpblyat]

This is one of stereotype. Really more drivers were detained for drunk driving

[@thestickmanchannel8589]

@@helpblyat r/wooosh

[@Mark-pu5xc]

@@helpblyat ye, but sounds funny)) (in Russian)

[@Askhat08]

I'm from Russia and I remember doing a study on Russia's alcohol consumption during my university studying back in 2012. Turned out "moderate" drinkers in Russia get really drunk only 2 times a week lol.

[@blagojevicniki4492]

Tbh that does sound moderate, it's the average weekends drinker.

[@F.R.E.D.D2986]

That is still a lot of booze

[@hunterlacey5422]

Lol, I remember living in Russia as a kid and in some bars, as long as you were tall enough to see over the bar, they would serve you

[@electrogestapo]

2 times a week? So... Saturday to Sunday?

[@igoranisimov6549]

@@hunterlacey5422 Not true. When we lived in USSR, one of my school friend was asked by local low enforcement to become an "undercover agent". He was buying alcohol in liquer stores, and if alcohol was sold to him, then the store clerk was immediately charged with the violation of the law. Sometimes only bottled beer was sold to young people. And beer was usually sold in same stores where carbonated non-alcoholic drinks were sold. In order to buy wine or hard liquers we had to ask some adult to buy it for us. And to be honest, soviet union did not have "bars" where the alcohol was poured in glasses. Exception was beer pubs. Even in restaurants customers preferred to buy entire bottles or bring their own.

[@gedehahsen429]

Average russian actually drinks about 7 liters of alcohol per year. Boris Yeltsin, who drinks 18 million liters per year is an obvious outlier and should've not been counted.

[@kildarealeksen4140]

Alcoholism and smoking: accursed legacies of communism. And Putin doesn't defend the lives of the Russian people either: Carlsberg, British American Tobacco, Philip Morris, Japan Tobacco International, among other multinationals of death.

[@morodaye1417]

Nice Cookie Clicker reference

[@arx3516]

Is he still alive?

[@StarIsNotOkay]

@@arx3516 No he died in 2007

[@boopsboops961]

@@arx3516 no, he died in 2007. Ironicaly, Gorbachev, the person who was overthrown by Yeltsin is still alive

[@Gabrong]

Hungarian here. My grandmother didn't have a day without two shots for at least 50years edit: she is about 80 now

[@zlac]

Croatian here. My grandma claims the day doesn't even start before a shot of plum schnapps. :-D

[@martonreisch6582]

Jó magyart látni:D

[@parasnaradiya2608]

My roommate use to drink whisky at 2-3 am daily to concentrate on studies

[@sherqyanstromain9580]

Fff

[@GodsWheat]

@@parasnaradiya2608 my stepdad hasn't had a day without minimum 200 ml of vodka Lithuania is even higher than Russia, I guess Russia has less since more Muslims

[@user-wj5cx2zp7v]

Russian: I have alcohol problem. Me: Oh I'm sorry. Russian: Yes, I have no alcohol, this is problem.

[@NightcorEDM]

Haha

[@ADrunkCrayfish]

💀

[@capitaopacoca8454]

Jokes

[@DacLMK]

This is a big problem here in Macedonia, and any other Balkan nation.

[@sorinichim4737]

😂😂😂

[@patrickaherne1274]

Russia does not have an alcohol problem, alcohol has a russia problem

[@hoze1235]

in Russia alcohol gets hangover

[@metadragon7500]

Alcohol doesn’t think Russia is a problem.

[@demetriusbrown1019]

@Phronesis Philosophy Channel lmfaooo

[@hellobaby949]

@Phronesis Philosophy Channel LMAO

[@Alexey-qs6nr]

I'm from Russia, and yeah, this is a real problem. My father died from alcoholism, and almost every man in my family drinks a lot. There are always people on the streets drunk to the state when they cannot move straight forward. I hope the situation will change in the nearest future

[@kildarealeksen4140]

If the communists had closed the genocidal alcohol and tobacco industries, Russia would be a drug-free nation. Besides, which is worse: the exploitation of man by man, a slogan widely propagated by the communists, or profiting from the death of the people? Communism never again. And Putin does not want the good of the Russian people: Carlsberg, Heineken, Budweiser, British American Tobacco, Philip Morris International, Japan Tobacco, among other multinationals of death. Alcoholism and smoking, legacies of communism, are Russia's biggest problems. In fact, millions of Russians have already been killed by these drugs. But no one has the courage to close the genocidal alcohol and tobacco industries. There must be mass protest against the genocidal alcohol and tobacco industries,which destroy a nation's future, in front of the Kremlin.

[@MilaneseMoon]

“Russian men have the lowest life expectancy of all men in the world” Watches Russian dash cam video: huh, I wonder why

[@ultraviolet.catastrophe]

@JAYTEA HOOTS Cite your sources. If you're right, then the video is greatly misleading the viewers. That's not very scientific.

[@joshuak4599]

@Kopliko Kot I doubt many men care enough to live up to your silly expectations just to die early.

[@luisch1708]

No wonder why they all drive like drunkards

[@Dr.Johnson]

@@luisch1708 another huge problem is that u can just buy your license over there. And not just the license, but pretty much everything. Russia's always been one of the most corrupt countries. U can do absolutely everything there if you have either much money or the right contacts.

[@abbaskhanjer5482]

Akaiq

[@lidlllTTTTT]

Student in the UK: the tone of his voice when he said 23 shots a month makes me think I may have a problem

[@localbigfoot8217]

Your probably fine

[@mandalorian_guy]

You'll slowly lose interest in it. People drink a lot in their teens and early twenties because it's a new experience and has a social taboo. After college you focus more on work and your metabolism starts to decrease leading to less partying and drinking.

[@DaDennyH]

I know, right? 20 shots is a decent evening.

[@danieldeburgh8437]

@Jamie Thunder probelm is the people I notice who drink a lot beyond their 30s are eastern europeans

[@andreibarsan5117]

Us Uk students are on a different level 🤙🏼😂

[@mistrants2745]

"30% of every death" We did all we could ma'am, sadly he has passed away. He was killed for 10% by a bullet, 20% lung cancer, 30% alcohol and 40% me forgetting to remove the scalpel before we closed him up...

[@orangew3988]

Like, I know this is stupid, but if you have a lifetime of heavy drinking your organs are already damaged and under a lot of stress, so yes, you are less likely to survive the surgery to remove the bullet, or be able to reliably turn up for treatment for the lung cancer. And if you get black out drunk and aspirate, and get a chest infection, and die of sepsis because your family just thought you were hung over, was it the alcohol that killed you, or the chest infection, or the lack of appropriate hospitalisation, or the fact that when in hospital you were having the DTs and ripping out cannulas in confusion making it harder to get consistent iv antibiotic therapy. Sorry for being pedantic, you probs only meant a joke.

[@salinasantiago8544]

Ha

[@aidenbester8840]

Hey im South African and i can say my grandpa lived a full life a happy full life of 47 years

[@MessyTheBossy]

Im from Romania, and it sounds so weird to me that RealLifeLore sound borderline shocked at these numbers, while here it is normality for the older men. Eastern Europe is really drunk.

[@bobhope4288]

I'm American and I'm shocked by these numbers, in 2010 Russian males averaged less than 1 drink per day. Doesn't seem like very much to me.

[@DacLMK]

I'm from Macedonia and I wasn't shocked at those numbers at all.

[@Lyuben]

Exactly, I'm from Bulgaria and we drink Rakija on every occasion. It's a tradition for every grandfather to teach his sons and grandsons how to brew it at home. I live in the city so I can't brew it at home, but when I stay with my grandfather for a while to help him with the farm we drink almost every night. If someone asked me on average how old boys are when they have their first drink I would say around 13 depending on the family. My grandfather told me the first time he got drunk was 5 years old when his father left him alone in a room with the wine. I am not ashamed of this in any way because I agree that drinking is part of our Bulgarian/Balkan culture.

[@MountainPF]

The new Z generation drinks much less than the Y and millennial generations. The baby boomers still drink as much, if not more, than they used to. As the boomers die off the numbers will shift to less alcohol consumption.

[@RoScFan]

Eu am fost mai socat de faptul ca suntem in top alaturi de ei. Romania is so alcoholic as to be between ukraine and russia when it comes to average alcohol consumption per capita? That s fucked up. I know there s a lot of drunkards in Romania, but in top 6 world record!?!?! We need to start discouraging homemade tuica.

[@Billy-bh3uy]

It's only becomes a problem when they run out of alcohol

[@user-jz9gv4rp5f]

Underrated

[@jurepero6163]

When Russia runs out of Vodka Berlin runs out of virgins.

[@johnwhite7700]

Russia has cheap heroin, thanks to Afghanistan

[@user-iv7jt1ex7j]

Vodka can't run out. If there is no vodka people just die, cause there is also no food what so ever. In Russia alcohol is as necessary as basic supplies.

[@speartongamer6080]

😂

[@stevenpayne5901]

When they say "liters of alcohol" they are talking about pure ethanol. Since most liquor is %40 then you need to multiply by 2 1/2. This means 37 1 liter bottles per year on average.

[@Half_Centaur]

Most bottles, at least in America, come in 750ml. This means they're drinking more like 50 bottles a year, or one per week

[@Half_Centaur]

@Nikola głodowski lol, you might've had a problem

[@anthonybanderas9930]

@@Half_Centaur but we are not talking about USA, are we yank?

[@Half_Centaur]

@@anthonybanderas9930 Yeah, except that the standard size all over the world is 750ml, just like in the US. It's only in the EU that they, confusingly, sometimes use 700ml. Take your hate for America and direct it elsewhere, homey.

[@anthonybanderas9930]

@@Half_Centaur we are not talking about "the rest of the world" either. We are talking about Russia. And anyway last time I ve checked the standards, at least in some of the EU countries was 500 and 1000 so the yank is wrong again.

[@ChronitonMechanics]

Imagine alcoholism is just a symptom...probably from a feeling of purposelessness...

[@netyimeni169]

USSR collapsed and it was great stress for previous generation. In 90s your life savings suddenly means nothing cause country gone and ruble changed, crime rate boosted, high unemployment rate cause a lot of USSR's factories was sold, then few wars, terrorism, etc.

[@tinman8972]

It's a death wish.

[@TheLakabanzaichrg]

It seems to be a big issue since the soviet era, perhaps too much stress

[@lpi3]

@@netyimeni169 alcoholism was problem in ussr times as well. Andropov tried to forbid alcohol completely but this only led to death or blindness from self produced (accidently) metanol in place of etanol. This was terrible. Alcoholism in Russia even today is no joke.

[@stevenowens5155]

23 shots a month? That’s baby numbers, more like a day

[@asifsiddique455]

He’s talking about pure alcohol like 100%

[@zegociarz]

@@asifsiddique455 Isnt he talking about vodka? 40%

[@starfishjunky]

He made a mistake in the video, he mixed up alcohlic drinks with pure alcohol.

[@Sumanitu]

@@starfishjunky Its not clear in the video if he's talking about pure ethanol or not, I think. Still, even 23 shots of PURE alcohol per month is barely over the US's point where you become declared a heavy drinker. The recommended amount is no more than 12 shots of 40% liquor per week. The numbers in the video equal out to 13.25 drinks of 40% vodka a week if you assume he's talking about pure liquor, and only 5.3 shots if not.

[@yaxx1]

The correct number of shots of vodka per month is 26*0.51/0.4/12/0.04=69 liters of 100% spirits * 51% / 40% abv / months in a year / shot size in cl

[@cheekibreekibree1025]

Russians: yeah, we drink a lot, but we also have some imperfections

[@harbard642]

Yea...you eat a lot of butterbrot...

[@axel6437]

No they snort it

[@eewag1]

Cheeki Breeki Bree! Racist profile picture

[@tredI9100]

A NUUUUUUU _CHEEKI BREEKI_ I V *DAMKE* (i found this quote on life of boris) (sees "Can I get 1000 Subs?"'s comment) Me: *_h o l d u p_*

[@midwestmasocist]

@@eewag1 😂

[@sn350channel]

I’ve been to Belarus. Their grocery stores consist of 30% of their store with alcohol. In almost every aisle. Even selling in the cosmetics aisle.

[@Aphex217Twin]

They sell alcohol in cosmetics!!!???

[@AA-hg5fk]

since 2022 Russian male life expectancy has been taking a hit due to reasons unrelated to alcohol...

[@andybrinegar8861]

My Russian friends wouldn’t necessarily consider this a problem...

[@maricelatejeda8002]

._.

[@rickenman9844]

Part of the problem is too many Russians not considering this a problem

[@Eridelm]

@@rickenman9844 Certainly that's a misleading thought. If population wouldn't shrink to critical point we will witness Russia with low percentage of alcholism, my thoughts based on 1990-2000 born people's view.

[@Nordlicht05]

My russian wife would consider this a problem from a woman viewpoint. But when the womans do not want a divorce maybe not a problem?

[@nntflow7058]

That friend of yours WAS your friend.

[@Zekonos1]

"ten years ago in 2010" why you gotta remind me that im an old geezer goddamn

[@gamermapper]

Boomer

[@justiceschmidt2594]

@@gamermapper ok zoomer

[@sule.A]

2010 is old?

[@McDADDyK]

If you think 2010 is old you're defo a kid in your late teens trying to sound cool

[@zacharysmith4787]

I mean, I was 21 in '10 and now I'm 31. 10 years might not seem like alot of time but at the same time it is. Alot can happen in a decade.

[@alexeysaranchev6118]

I love how you use the pronoun "she" when referring to Russia. Warms heart.

[@user-mr6ui4fy5h]

She + it = shit (Russia)

[@Cybernaut551]

@@user-mr6ui4fy5h Immo

[@sary2107]

neither! why is this a thing.

[@TheGr8FryingPan]

He said that Russians drank an average of 23 shots a month. By my calculations it's actually a lot more. 26l=2600cl which is 7.12 cl of ethanol per day over 365 days. Given that your average spirit has 40% ABV thats 17.8cl of vodka which is 8.9 shots a day. He did say only half of alcohol consumption was spirits, but thats still 4.45 shots of vodka a day, or 133 shots a month.

[@AntonioZL]

He probably confused 26 liters of alcohol consumption with 26 liters of beverages containing alcohol.

[@lullamaqueen9866]

Is It just me or is he talking with a "I can't believe this is true, I'm still impressed by this numbers" voice tone

[@user-tl4ly8pr3n]

Really??

[@Gyrfalcon312]

I could hear it, too.

[@danielljudvigov150]

He's talking in a "I'm a popular KZbin channel saying bad things about Russia to an English audience that doesn't read" tone

[@ya436]

1:10 "10 years ago in 2010" damn.

[@itoshiigrauben]

I remember that I counted back years as if I was in 2000 since that’s what my parents do

[@21tryhard97]

:(

[@deanfinch9750]

“And most of this was just pure alcohol that had been diluted to feel like vodka…” That’s LITERALLY what vodka is. Pure alcohol diluted with water.

[@volvoracingmv1346]

"pure alcohol that has been diluted to feel like Vodka" No, that's literally what Vodka is.

[@gitghetto]

Do you know what distillation is...? Vodka is a liquor that's been distilled to remove as much as possible aside from water and alcohol. Taking pure ethanol and adding water doesn't make vodka, just like how taking pure ethanol and adding hops doesn't make beer. There's a lot more to it than "HUR DUR ALCOHURL AND WURTER"

[@volvoracingmv1346]

@@gitghetto yes, do you know how Vodka is produced? Distillation to almost pure ethanol and then adding water. Not "HUR DUR DISTILLATION"

[@gitghetto]

@@volvoracingmv1346 Oh wow, I didn't realise they distilled it to pure ethanol before adding water :O Sit back down in your armchair and go back to r/distillers 😂

[@volvoracingmv1346]

@@gitghetto what's even your point? That's the difference between Vodka and Korn.

[@gitghetto]

@@volvoracingmv1346 I literally made my point in my first comment ya dingus, I'm sorry you somehow missed it 😂

[@guilherme1622]

if dont stop drinking then you re only drunk once

[@guilherme1622]

The question is Wasnt i drinking when i wrote this??...... What

[@fedra5873]

@@guilherme1622 no

[@Kavan19]

@@guilherme1622 yes

[@no-ly9zf]

no

[@no-ly9zf]

@@fedra5873 y u say my name fool?

[@SheldonBeldon]

I quit drinking and lost 30lbs, sleep well, my skin has cleared up, I no longer sweat when I sleep or stink of alcohol and save around £300 per month. I don't worry or cringe at something embarrassing I said or have trouble remembering what I did the night before. Instead of alcohol making my day-to-day mundane routines entertaining or bearable, it's forced me to actually seek out interesting things to do.

[@Doge5600]

Good job. Glad you recovered.

[@robertocavalli4156]

Cheers I'll drink to that

[@mikkicarr5717]

Congrats on kicking the habit! I hope you're still doing well.

[@SheldonBeldon]

@@mikkicarr5717 Thanks very much Mikki for your kind words. I am doing well.

[@jellybro-zl7xw]

Good job comrade. My dad had that problem and now he's beer free for about a year now.

[@user-yz9pw4km8n]

When I see an alcohol statistic, where beer, wine and stong drinks are calculated together in liters, I can't help but think that person was drunk...

[@NightLordddd]

23 shots a month and then there's me who drinks 10 shots every Saturday, feelsbad

[@Jambiiiii]

Russia doesn’t have an alcohol problem, alcohol has a Russian problem.

[@dead3043]

This made the drink come out my fucking nose

[@hegpxl]

@@dead3043 So, Vodka? If so, it stings like hell in the nose, feel sorry for you.

[@skizzik121]

Was going to type this exact comment. Well done sir

[@Adam-lv5yi]

The 26 litre figure you got was for PURE 100% ethanol content of hard liquor, beer, wine etc- not the volume of the products themselves. This means the average Russian man (assuming that 51% of that ethanol was hard liquor @ 40% abv) drinks around 20ish shots of alcohol per week (not per month) and much more beer on top of that 😮

[@japapapapaa]

^this

[@TheGreatBritishFarm]

Did think that myself

[@ezekielbrockmann114]

Right. So the average number of shots isn't 1/day. The current average is instead is 2.5/day.

[@ronswanson5551]

I was going to mention something similar after questioning his first few “volume-per-year” results, because that isn’t really that much overall when considering the point of this video.

[@dominicbruce7558]

Thank you, was scared that I drink more than the average Russian

[@InvestBetter.]

"We don't have a problem drinking!" - Russians

[@srujanaithal5001]

"We have a drinking problem"

[@feraltrafficcone4483]

Fun reminder that there was a supersonic bomber in Russia’s use that used a water and alcohol mix for coolant in the A/C. It was highly common for pilots to deliberately not use their A/C so they could siphon off the coolant and drink it, or barter it for goods and services from other pilots.

[@101bsatx]

I believe you have misinterpreted your data. When the researchers say liters of alcohol I think they mean pure ethanol alcohol. Not liters of a diluted alcoholic beverage. The average bottle of liquor in the US is 40% ethanol. So 26 pure liters is 65 liters of normal U.S. vodka.

[@mkirklions]

I was most curious about this. It seems the average person would be drinking ~1 shot per day and maybe 1 other drink, which is wayy too low.

[@sionowe2533]

that cant be right. anyone drinking over 2 liters of voddy per day wont make it a week without liver failure.

[@mustpaike]

@@sionowe2533 oh, they do, once you build up a tolerance it becomes really easy to have a relatively normal everyday life and yet put away 2 liters @ 40% daily, assuming you have the cash. At one point one will drink vodka as if it is water, half a liter to wake up, another half for lunch, yet another for dinner, and the final half as a supper/evening snack. Not my personal experience though, the highest i've reached is about 0.5 liters of 40% equivalent per day, lasting for months.

[@doctaflo]

@mustpaike @sion i can speak from experience as i used to get through a 1L bottle of bacardi 151 every 2.5 days or so... that went on for a few years. even at that rate, liver failure usually takes decades, unless you have some other underlying condition or risk factor.

[@101bsatx]

@@sionowe2533 his numbers are averages for a year, so it would be 65 liters per year meaning about 0.18 of a liter per day, not 2 entire liters a day, that would be 730 liters a year.0.18 liters is around 4 shots of vodka a day. Now that's an average of every Russian in the country, so some drink far more and others drink less.

[@stefanivkovic1494]

Poland while inventing vodka: I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you

[@mybutthasteeth1347]

@F.B.I. gotta love a good sabaton reference

[@wilianrodrigues5280]

Poland: REVENGE IS SWEET

[@edim108]

@F.B.I. SPIRIT of Spartans... Heh. Get it? I'm not sorry.

[@johnphantom]

Uh no, what did it take for someone to say, "I want to drink that" in reference to a fucking potato?

[@antoniasalinas513]

i love that pannenkoek reference

[@chipdaddy9716]

C.I.A. should open a chain of deep discount liquor stores in Russia.

[@markberryhill2715]

That would destroy them quicker than anything.

[@novydasb4660]

@@markberryhill2715 not really

[@andryushenko98]

Somebody already did that, we have plenty of such chains here in Russia

[@casualkave537]

About Irkutsk tragedy of December 2016: the lotion was not "mislabeled", it was used as a cheap yet powerful drink by the extremely poor due to the alcohol in it for a loong time before the tragedy. But for that particular batch they used Methanol instead of Ethanol on an illegal manufacturing facility, which caused mass poisoning and deaths.

[@quite1enough]

I'm russian and I don't drink at all. My father is alcoholic, sadly.

[@Acampandoconfrikis]

Your name doesn't look russian tho

[@yommmrr]

I'm sorry about your dad. Your doing the right thing though. Teach your children the right way to live. That's the only thing we can do to make a better world.

[@CK-yv6nw]

I'll drink to that cheers

[@biko9824]

CK oh gosh.

[@jackdaniels6536]

@@Acampandoconfrikis yeah because he has to put his real name on yt right?

[@denisdrc5836]

RLL: "2020 has been a bizzarre year"... Man, we're not even halfway through...

[@Marianian]

Exactly

[@moonsugar6781]

Denis DRC just you wait til 2022 is here

[@madeinmicrosoftpaint]

@@moonsugar6781 what's going to happen in 2022

[@aeternavictrix7861]

Dangerous_Shark 2030 is when shit will hit the fan

[@NoNo-xh7ru]

Dangerous_Shark coronavirus 2: electric boogaloo

[@ankurage]

Plot twist: Russian men were androids running on ethanol

[@kildarealeksen4140]

Alcoholism and smoking: accursed legacies of communism. And Putin doesn't defend the lives of the Russian people either: Carlsberg, British American Tobacco, Philip Morris, Japan Tobacco International, among other multinationals of death.

[@TheHylianJuggalo]

All stereotypes are based on some speck of truth. Remember that.

[@Ilaunchnukes]

Teacher: "Describe Russian history in a nutshell. " Me: **BUT THEN IT GETS WORSE!**

[@i.h.1091]

vj balan haha

[@madpsina]

gold

[@IronpenWorldbuilding]

Absolutely. Example: the Soviet Union was established by Lenin, then there were lots o famines and after that Stalin caused worse famines and several purges. See where I’m going?

[@idanielrog]

Brainwashed, study more non propaganda source's. Please

[@kirilll7806]

@Volbran не отрицай очевидные вещи

[@bridgeroneill8067]

“23 SHOTS OF LIQUOR A MONTH?!!!!” Me in college: ☹️

[@bosnianseparatist1174]

That doesn't seem like a lot but considering it's for a period of more than 50 years it now is

[@mikkei3532]

Me with my motocycle friends we last trip all over whe country and drink 7day marathon 0.7 litre vodka per capita every day and 6-8beers . I made like 200 shots of vodka or whatever

[@DacLMK]

In the Balkan, we do 23 shots of liquor in 5 days.

[@fluedgoop]

@@bosnianseparatist1174 he must've miscalculated, that's a ridiculously low number, about 5.3 a week. The odd glass of wine of an evening would top that. One night out will easily account for most of the month alone.

[@gudeaoflagash5293]

Flued Goop That was only the spirits. He also said “In addition to a full litre of beer or wine”

[@caseykyle4029]

23 shots and a liter of beer in a month doesn’t seem like a crazy amount

[@kevinconway6022]

Literally rookie numbers smh.

[@Rat-O-Tim]

compared to other countries, it is crazy

[@mrrandom1265]

I used to work for Emirates in Dubai. Russian flights had 3 times the amount of alcohol compared to any other destination in the world. And the carts were totally empty when we landed. Those guys drink anything as long as there's alcohol in it. This is totally insane.

[@TLJet]

Correction: Alcohol has problem with Russia

[@Ralphieboy]

I was in the USSR when they tried to introduce the anti-alcohol campaign, restricting access and cracking down on public drunkenness. But the prevailing attitude back then was simple: regardless of whether you drank more or less, your material situation was not going to improve...you just had to stay sober enough at work not to get sent home.

[@neonwater5892]

That’s so sad

[@tiernanwearen8096]

giving up drinking was one of the best descions i made

[@Hella-en5dh]

So that means most Russian dudes literally drink until they’re out of money for the month.

[@grom69]

sadly, i live in russia and that is true

[@eliaselias9899]

@@grom69 да че ты пиздишь то, сейчас в разы меньше пьют чем в нулевые

[@grom69]

@@eliaselias9899 но до сих пор пьют же Да, не так, как раньше, но все равно цифры огромные Огромное количество людей живут за чертой бедности и большинство из них пьет Пиздеж это или нет, но таких людей, бомжей бухих я встречаю через день

[@ybwmarion]

@@eliaselias9899 большинство алкашей из 2000-ых умерло просто

[@FingeringThings]

I'd like to know the 13 countries who drink more alcohol than Russia

[@Wyatt-rp4hb]

*there are none.*

[@4u_lightningwolf]

czechia

[@slan0305]

belarus czechia moldova etc

[@user-bg7ol6kz1y]

1 Russia 2 Russia 3 Russia 4 Russia 5 Russia 6 sorry can't find a 6th one

[@emiliianoportillo1311]

Oh yeah... Ireland

[@Comred1]

'The enormous amount of a liter of beer each month' *Sweats nervously*

[@nathanschmick9681]

Lol I'm thinking real-life lore has no drinking buddies. A liter of beer is one good night. And there's been several "good night's" a week at my house..

[@jamesmantovani8620]

@Litch it's enough for me to get a buzz! Not drunk, but buzzed. Depends on the proof

[@greghmn]

1:53 is actually understating the degree of the problem by quite a bit. *_It's literally several times worse._* TL;DR: the actual number would be four drinks per day and *62 shots per month,* not 23. 26 liters of alcohol per year means 26 liters of _pure_ ethanol. The non-alcoholic components of the beverage in question are excluded; otherwise, this data wouldn't make any sense since you wouldn't be able to control for international differences in drink type. 51% of this is spirits, meaning 13.26 liters. I'm going to use the American definition of a standard drink, which is any alcoholic beverage that contains 0.6 fluid ounces (about 18 mL) of pure ethanol. This means one shot of liquor, most commonly being 40% alcohol (80 proof), is 1.5 fluid ounces or 44 mL. Wine and beer vary widely, but the nominal averages are 12% and 5%, respectively, making serving sizes 5 fl oz (about 1/5 of a 750 mL bottle) and 12 fl oz (one standard can) respectively, or about 150 and 350 mL. Dividing the total amount of ethanol, 26 L (roughly 879 fluid ounces or a not-very-nice 6.9 gallons) by the serving size of 0.6 fluid ounces yields a total of *1465 standard drinks,* which is almost exactly four per day. So if we assume 51% of those are liquor, that actually comes out to 62 per month. Why not 57-58? Not sure what numbers were being used, but that number in particular would surface if (but not only if) we assumed both 80 proof and the American serving size; it could otherwise by sheer coincidence due to differences in those two amounts that varied inversely. So, the remaining 49%, 12.74 L (I really don't care about significant figures, but whatever), if all wine, would be 12.74/0.12 or about 106 liters per year. That's twelve entire bottles per month! As beer, it would be 12.74/0.05, or about 255 liters. Nearly two cans per day (obvious since it's about half of four standard drinks), but another way of looking at it is that it's 700 cans. This may seem like a small error, but I urge the uploader to correct it. If you're trying to put things into terms that a layperson can understand, at least get the numbers and interpretation straight. Otherwise, you're better off omitting that part entirely.

[@rocier]

When he says 23 drinks a month was a shocking amount of booze.... Uhhh

[@Noctem_pasa]

I think he meant 100% pure ethanol worth of alcohol

[@sepijortikka]

@@Noctem_pasa still

[@Turkey936]

Yeh still haha I'm sure I drink more than this. Just on weekends.

[@TheLakabanzaichrg]

That means on average and not just drinkers

[@AltaSonix]

In Lithuania, almost all my friends and classmates I know (~17 yo) drink alcohol on almost every chance they can. I'm pretty sure at least 40% of them drink every week. Also, it's considerate not normal if you don't have alcohol served on a birthay party or a wedding. And the worst part is, if you are not a drinker, almost everyone will anoyingly make you try to drink.

[@Marianian]

That's weird,

[@TheSkult]

Albertas Butrimas Hmmm interesting. I wonder if Latvia has more or less alchoholism than Lithuania.

[@AltaSonix]

@@TheSkult 🤷‍♂️. Migh be something similar, since it experienced the same problems with Russia.

[@JoeTheBroken]

Same here but Im american

[@AltaSonix]

@@JoeTheBroken lol. I thought it was cooler there..

[@stefotorpedo]

Every time I read about Russia's alcohol troubles Little Big's "I'm OK" starts playing in my head.

[@graphics635]

uno, dos, quatro maybe they were counting the vodka shots 🤣

[@rasol4eg]

I'm not alcoholic

[@mississippiball1003]

@@rasol4eg e

[@griffith500tvr]

Live expectancy for Russian men has gone down again 2022

[@againstviralmisinformation510]

We will see. It went down more for women these past few years of covid and a substantial amount of men need to die in Ukraine to make a noticeable difference in life expectancy

[@Duncaniowa17]

Good job! Continue on the path

[@Claudio-gv2lz]

“23 shots per month” Me during summer: hey mom look, like an avarage russian in one night

[@danielblack5196]

The numbers he was using in liters were of "pure alcohol." The data was correct, but the calculations were all off. That's why everyone in the comments is laughing at the 23 shots number. That plus a liter of beer and wine is still only an average of one drink per day.... the CDC in the US allows for up to two drinks per day even in the US as standard consumption. I did the math, and the average Russian citizen (not sure if these numbers include children as well which would complicate the situation) but the average Russian citizen would have about a bottle of vodka per week or 2 shots per day, while men (based on his calculations) would have about 4 shots per day. Just average.

[@viktorbirkeland6520]

@@danielblack5196 that sounds way more right. Yeah, a little misleading, leading to a lot of people in the comments saying they could easily keep up with above average Russian alcohol consumers, which in 99% of cases they just simply couldn't. As a nordic person, coming from a long, long line of alcoholics, partly due to Russian vodka (historically, Northern Norwegians traded fur for vodka), I can kind of keep up, but I know how heavy a toll it takes on my body, even though I used to it. Alcohol is a terrible drug, and the world would be way better without it. Laughable that weed is illegal, yet alcohol is fine and even socially acceptable and encouraged

[@ConnorOfDestruction]

@@viktorbirkeland6520 four shots a day quite simply ain't shit

[@viktorbirkeland6520]

@@ConnorOfDestruction It's cool that you think that, but you're not impressing anybody. How much you can drink, largely depends on your genetics, which makes it even less impressive when you brag, since some of us are just born able to drink more than the rest. Whatever the case, I hope you do keep your word and prove to us all how great you are at drinking, I'd say you would impress me when you've had 10 shots daily, every single day, for 15 years. Hope you don't back out mate, you seem to want to prove yourself!

[@ConnorOfDestruction]

@@viktorbirkeland6520 you can't seriously be claiming 4 shots is a remarkable amount of alcohol. That's the equivalent of four beers, and having been to your country plenty of you handle four drinks or more a day, easily. Grow up pothead

[@GameZard]

If I lived in a frozen wasteland I would drink heavily too.

[@jooztbakker9494]

Russia has many different climates

[@youarealwayscorrect]

Not really, only 1/6 of Russia’s population live in Siberia and other cold regions of the country. It’s basically just another stereotype, like saying that Americans love to eat fast food so much because they’re too dumb to cook anything for themselves.

[@ForOne814]

@@youarealwayscorrect I mean...Is it that untrue?

[@xenos_n.]

@@youarealwayscorrect or assuming that everywhere in America is similar. I can't tell you how many times people not from here assume that my life in Maine is like someone in LA or NY, or even Ohio or Minnesota or Florida or Texas, etc... It's very different. Our country is huge and like a country of countries.

[@sorrynothing.]

i live in Vorkuta so...yeah

[@qwert4871]

You know, in Russia we often use vodka for disinfection instead of antiseptics a lot.

[@emanueldoriangandeipadurea472]

😑 born in alcohol , aye

[@ailo8964]

Russian: alcohol isn't deadly. Our nuclear arsenal is.

[@Horesmi]

Americans: haha Russians drink so much booze. Also Americans: give me more of those pills so I stop being sad.

[@hoho7029]

Tbh II don't think pills are problem, more what kind of pills it is. Many amwericians are prescribed meds which they addicted to and when they run out of money they look into other means to seat their addiction

[@frzferdinand72]

@Doug Bevins They're just drunk and mad and taking it out on Americans because RLL has an American accent.

[@user-le8wr4yz6q]

Doug Bevins oh look, you made a strawman! Congratulations, soon you will learn to see every piece of dark humour as an immediate threat to your untouchable worldview. Btw how did you guess that the guy in question is russian? Please, calm your butthurt, you are being unconstructive here.

[@Korrus_]

Николай Иванов damnnn nice sit down @bevins

[@directoryerror6653]

@Doug Bevins I figure the point of his comment was to draw a parallel between each states choice of substance to abuse. While it's interesting to learn about nationwide alcoholism problems you sure get defensive when similar problems in your own infallible nation are brought to question. All of your rage due to what you assumed his point was, you assumed they only set out to defame The USA, then worked yourself into a fit of rage on your own stupid assumption. Grow up.

[@grilled_steak_stuffed_5586]

This video was published on the day I quit drinking. 6 months of sobriety and counting!

[@balkanjoker8754]

Dont give up bro

[@grilled_steak_stuffed_5586]

@@balkanjoker8754 No way man. Feeling way too awesome and my bank account is a lot happier!

[@Shannara360]

Hey, I'm proud of you. Good job.

[@grilled_steak_stuffed_5586]

@@Shannara360 thank you!

[@doubleawakeel7214]

Thx to Islam, non of my relatives drink. And being drunk in saudi arabia is almost impossible unless you make your own ig, and if u don't get caught. You can't hate this law because it prohibits something unhealthy. Which I like

[@b.baggins8893]

First time I been to a Russian restaurant, before ordering anything the waiter opened a bottle and pored me a drinking glass full, I believed to be water, but was vodka to my surprise.

[@matthewtaylor3308]

A drinking problem? I drink, I get drunk, I fall down. No problem!

[@alexnistor2836]

Real life lore: "the world is about to end" Also Real Life Lore: "Btw, buy this new headset" :)))

[@Nightshade0111]

Alex Nistor hey he’s gotta get money somehow

[@alexnistor2836]

@@Nightshade0111, i know but, the contrast bro...

[@JB-tl8rj]

I don't watch this channel too often cuase of the sponsorships and doomist attitude

[@Erispedia]

Well, a good equipment for listening Astronomia from inside the coffin is always appreciated.

[@zack7122]

nice

[@spoompls42069]

This should’ve been renamed: “Alcohol’s Russia Problem”.

[@mr.sandhu587]

LoL

[@Marianian]

Lol

[@TheOneWh0Knocks]

It's funny because everyone knows that Russia is a political problem and alcohol is a chemical solution...

[@johnphantom]

@@TheOneWh0Knocks alcohol is the chemical solution the people in Russia use to accept the political climate of Russia.

[@SCBLGamingFilm]

in soviet russia, you don't drink alcohol, alcohol drink you

[@joeyo4163]

World to Russia: Do you have a problem with Alcohol? Russia: No we get along just fine.

[@itriedtochangemynamebutitd5019]

In Russia, You don't consume alcohol... *Alcohol consumes you*

[@blacktimhoward4322]

Me: Wow, someone should really moderate their intake *giant bong rip*

[@bubbles9844]

Fuck yea, Russians should go to Amsterdam for a good time

[@abeidiot]

Still much safer

[@eriktrolle-schultz2951]

u wot M8?! '

[@QuentinWatt]

Why so staggered by 23 shots a month? I swear I know a few people who can do that over the weekend easy! 😂

[@QuentinWatt]

Well glad you mentioned men in South Africa. I can attest it’s true. We don’t live passed 65 here and many people are heavy drinkers.

[@Daniel-kp9oy]

I’ve met my grandpa a couple weeks ago who lives in eastern Poland told me a shot of vodka is good for you. Guess my grandpa has higher average than Russia

[@BoloVaboParashHaro]

Dont forget that 23 shots a month is only 50% of the alcohol so if they only drink spirts its 46 +some men dont drink at all +young people and kids dont drink or drink less

[@AhizzuOMG]

Dont forget that its an average. On average every man in Russia downs 23 shots a month

[@2200gonewild]

It's an average that means that the people who drink more than average drink a fuck ton

[@mad_zo]

All my life I was thinking that the Russians were the worst alcoholics of all times. When I came to England and saw how English drink, my point of view has changed radically on the alcoholic problems of the world.

[@robertbruce1887]

When l took a trip to the UK. & Ireland l was shocked at how much public urination l saw, especially outside pubs at night, it was common to see several guys in a group urinating against a wall.

[@thischannel4326]

In Soviet Russia, alcohol consumes you!

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

In Soviet Russia, freedom of speech exists too. It never specified freedom AFTER the speech

[@nevermind8063]

Lol

[@nevermind8063]

You're everywhere, man

[@yt9404]

Just a typical Westerner comment.

[@007furious]

Kindda same in West. Specially with leftist cancel culture and everyone getting offended.

[@Amarganeitor]

I bet you're just another account of Avery the Cuban-American.

[@nik_evdokimov]

5:05 haha lol, as a Russian, I can confirm that that policy didn`t help so much in big cities, i.e. in St. Petersburg there are alcohol shops which at night sell alcohol because legally they are `bars` - they just place a few chairs and table and open the alcohol when you buy it, but of course everyone takes it with them Another thing is neighborhood mini-markets - they sell alcohol to those people who they know and trust, i.e. people who live in that house near the shop

[@YfelElve]

I heard those little shops will be banned

[@lauritoerni2080]

Interesting, here in hermany we have designated shops that sell alcohol and potato chips etc at night We call then späti (late shop pretty much) and they're usually open from 10pm to like 4am

[@DoctorGlitch]

I’ve visited st petersburg and the guy who owned a supermarket sold me whisky after 11pm because i visited his store 2 times before so my man trusted me.

[@PAINNN666]

@@YfelElve It's just like caravan shop or something which banned. I can't explain. So it's only 1 form of little shops.

[@Dr4gon2000]

Yeah... I think it might be bad that as he's going through this I just keep thinking 'Oh, that little, that really isn't that much'

[@user-fv1uf9bf4r]

The Russians began to drink less, yeah. According to the same statistics, we do not die from covid and generally prosper... Glory to the united party, the most honest party in the world.

[@sorolxp29]

i can already see the "it's a solution" comments.....

[@VeryRestarted]

right on that

[@user-xb9yv2ci4c]

Actually it's not a solution. Ethanol is not a salt.

[@hapetE]

literally above and below ur comment

[@Coastfog]

It's a solvent, not a solution, completely different things.

[@tonydai782]

@@Coastfog Wait, the solvent is the thing that the solute is dissolved in. I'm pretty sure that water is the major component in most alcoholic drinks, so water is the solvent, ethanol would the solute unless you have greater than 50% alcohol content.

[@nicl4m]

I'm from russia, and drinking is indeed a huge problem. Almost every family that I know have some kind of problems with alcohol. Drinking and driving is almost a normal thing. I am a teenager, and I can easily buy everything from beer to vodka. The worst thing is that government does nothing to deal with this problem, so it only gets worse. What's more scarier is that drinking is far not the biggest problem in our country... (Sorry for any grammar mistakes, it's hard to translate from Russian to English ha-ha)

[@timypp2894]

Most countries that's of high latitudes both North and South i.e long nights in the winter months ago, their citizens have alcoholism problem.

[@fgfhjfhjfbhfghf5771]

"Russia's biggest problem is alcohol" Gay Russians: are we a joke to you?

[@artulyanoff]

Чечены

[@Chidulo]

This video should be called “Russian car accident videos explained”

[@EvilSapphireR]

Russians during lockdown: *stares aggressively at the alcoholed hand sanitizers*

[@zacktimmons2886]

I’m gonna put my money on Russia state sponsored numbers being completely false lol

[@hugonetinder7129]

What’s your sources? Great content, just curious where you get all the facts from @RealLifeLore

[@LoganHunter82]

"2020 has been a bizarre year". If that isn't a understatement, then I don't know what is...

[@CrazyBlueTv]

Depends on your country I guess, Covid had a serious effect for like 6 Weeks and for one week I had to buy recycled toilet paper as the normal one was a bit harder to get. People work again, bars are open and school slowly start again and thats about it

[@fabianmichaelgockner5988]

@@CrazyBlueTv if you live in USA: "Good night." If you live in Germany or any other country who reacted immediately: "You gonna live dozens years more!"

[@dodoontherocks]

It’s basically a big USA themed year.... the Iran thing, being unprepared and ignorant about covid and now the whole race war thing that’s going on... and ofc Australia burning to the ground again (I know worse than before but it happens a lot)

[@Marianian]

Not for Mariania

[@Marianian]

@@dodoontherocks what is corvid?

[@trnavacV6T]

Russian watching this: Oh shit, this is serious! -*pours some vodka*

[@RE-zl7sy]

vodka*

[@TB-if7px]

@@RE-zl7sy водка

[@-Fodi]

@@TB-if7px водяра

[@trnavacV6T]

@@RE-zl7sy I am scared of ur name bruh

[@trnavacV6T]

@@-Fodi водљлка

[@brownpunk1794]

My drinking club has a problem with my family

[@josecarter6671]

him advertising wireless headphones to me while im wearing my airpod pros

[@mikeomack2269]

I'm confused about how Scotland and Ireland aren't on here. I drank the yearly amount before the end of January.

[@temorsdfg8620]

@Find The Light Damn. Spice is one of the really bad drugs, on par with cocaine and close to heroin I'd say. One of my former friends is (if he's still alive) completely addicted to it, one had a psychosis and spend years in the psych ward. Never gonna touch that stuff again. Seriously just smoke weed instead.

[@johnmorrell3187]

Just remember when they say a liter of alcohol they mean a liter of pure ethanol, not a liter of an alcoholic drink. To get one liter of ethanol you're drinking like 20 liters of beer.

[@EM-ou2dn]

John Morrell I need a week to reach that

[@hevi0]

@@EM-ou2dn is that... a good thing?

[@EM-ou2dn]

Blitz probably not, but I don’t do it every week though

[@The-ct1xq]

I always wondered about this

[@elizabethsusanlibra]

Really? If yes why?

[@Dampasertheman]

Bcz vodka

[@DefyDistrict]

this video is shitty, if you want a good explanation from a Russian here it is. Vodka is a traditional Russian drink, meaning its tradition to drink it, just how Beer is for Germany. Russia has never been the #1 drinker, that title goes to S.Korea. Russias drinking like said in the video was worse near the collapse of the Soviet Union. Right now Russia's Alcohol consumption is on pair with other countries with their own tradition liquors. other places that like to booze, like germany or france. this is propaganda.

[@Marianian]

@@DefyDistrict south korea doesn't drink thar much.

[@BladeMK]

@@DefyDistrict where exactly did you get that information?

[@olegvelichko1659]

Great video. Very accurate. Except you forgot the Gorbachev prohibition, when people drank Troinoi. Cologne.

[@randomguy4116]

Me; Hears 26liters per year Me: Wait a min....I drink more than that

[@kevinconway6022]

I know right? You can definitely tell Wendover isn’t a big drinker.