Why Russians Drink So Much

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

I once saw two Russians crack open a 750 ml bottle of vodka outside a liquor store parking lot; they drank it empty in three minutes flat, immediately got into their pick-up truck, and non-chalantly drove away in the snow.

[@KLETwave]

Lol... Guess it was 5am and they drove off to work 😂

[@NothingYouHaventReadBefore]

Jesus christ, that's insane.

[@diemervdberg7661]

it is cheap though and I believe they even raised the prices last few years. I'm in Ukraine now and 1L is between 3-5eu. In most West European countries it is easily +15eu. So you could buy a few bottles of beer for the same price of 1L of vodka in EE.

[@woodsmand]

Wow I feel like a gutter drunk if I drink a half pint with soda water over the course of an evening

[@eldarr0uge482]

@@diemervdberg7661 Yep but the average monthly wage in Ukraine is around 300 - 450 euros, up to 600 in certain oblasts such as Kyiv. I live in France, minimum wage is at 1230 euros after taxes and the average wage is definitely way higher around big cities (about 3k in Ile de France which is paris and its extented suburbs)

[@Kraut_the_Parrot]

Спасибо

[@saminyasir1847]

это краут!

[@joshuaminton7583]

I was thinking of your video while watching this

[@DerUngarischeKitsune]

Hello

[@lilycrip3329]

Ahh daddy kraut

[@theinappropriate1343]

@@lilycrip3329 it says translate in English bruh

[@benjibader32]

In a Dostoyevsky novel one character says “what if the government is pumping us full of alcohol to keep us docile” and another character says “haha no way that would be crazy” s

[@DerelictDan69]

Exactly why the current Canadian Dictator legalized weed.

[@benjibader32]

@@DerelictDan69 no? He legalized weed because it is pointless to spend resources limited a substance that isn’t even as bad as alcohol. It’s not that all drugs should be illegal, it’s that the government shouldn’t actively push drugs into a populace

[@Fr_87]

@@benjibader32 Tfw druggie immediately seethes as his stinking hypocrisy is called out.

[@AN474-e1o]

Which novel was that?

[@benjibader32]

@@AN474-e1o I think demons

[@Royalistinexile]

My favourite Russian is back ❤️

[@karaluv_ravenovich]

Ты из чата фурии?

[@Royalistinexile]

@@karaluv_ravenovich нет

[@Bambino_60]

“People say I gotta drinking problem, but I got no problem drinking at all.” Midland

[@Im_No_Expert_72]

After being an alcoholic for 30 years, I'm just glad to finally be free of it. ☦️

[@wannabehistorian371]

Congrats!

[@mj-f7135]

🎉

[@georgeptolemy7260]

Yay

[@cookeeee1962]

Me....7 years. I don't miss the problems 💯 Well done.

[@ems7623]

Were you really an alcoholic? Or just another religious person looking for something to be "saved" from?

[@istoppedcaring6209]

being an autist, drinking socially has allowed me to break trough my social awkwardness in such events, similarly to how a parkinsons patient would see increased controll of motor functions when taking marihuana, in both cases the trade off is intoxication

[@Flint404]

I hear you brother. Alcohol sure helps but sadly it became an addiction.

[@G-Mastah-Fash]

Parkinsons patients can take pure CBD to get the effect without getting high I believe.

[@YBM2007]

its like the old saying 'alchol makes a good servant, but a lousy master'

[@Simon-1965]

I am high on the autistic spectrum, I find it difficult to socialise. A couple of beers made me feel confident, it soon turned into a couple more. Now I stay in because tins are cheaper.

[@Flint404]

@@Simon-1965 I have Aspergers. At 31yo I still have no clue how to live my life. Alcohol is now a serious problem. You should not relly on it.

[@unknownuser6757]

Short answer: People get lonely and depressed, then they turn to drugs

[@sifridbassoon]

I recently read a book about the 1917 Revolution in Petrograd. In addition to a surge in violent crime, there was also an epidemic of "alcohol pogroms" where armed rioters would break into restaurants and palaces and upper class homes and loot the wine cellars. At one point they broke into the wine cellars of the Winter Palace and pillaged and drank for days (or at least until they passed out). The snow outside on the square turned red from all the wine people poured on it, and people would lay on the ground and eat the snow for the alcohol. The level of wine sloshing around in the cellar grew to several feet high, and once the administration finally got control again and pumped the wine out, they found several bodies of people who had passed out on the floor of the cellar and drowned.

[@shahlabadel8628]

Name of the book please.

[@tashajoykin5192]

Source?!

[@sifridbassoon]

I'm pretty sure I came across it initially in Caught in the Revolution by Helen Rappaport, but I have also read it mentioned in other histories of the Feburary Revolution. @@tashajoykin5192

[@unclecrusty9]

I went to Moscow (Awesome, beautiful city) on vacation actually before the fall of The USSR. I was even in The Military. Had zero problems. Met up with a bunch of really cool Russian Soldiers and we partied like Rock Stars and they introduced me to some great food. We had a great time drinking vodka, trading friendly insults and slapping each other on the back. Best vacation ever.

[@0lifetrue0]

May I ask for your nationality?

[@unclecrusty9]

@@0lifetrue0 I'm American. At the time I was in The USAF.

[@Martina-Kosicanka]

@@unclecrusty9 What a Cold war experience!

[@unclecrusty9]

@@Martina-Kosicanka I love the Russian people. Good folks. Not very different from us Americans at all. It's government's that want us to hate each other and not the people. I didn't want to kill them anymore than they wanted to kill us. Now what does that say? One of my best friends is a Russian guy. Former Soviet Army. He came here after the collapse and installs garage doors. We get together. Shoot AKs and and drink vodka. He rocks.

[@Martina-Kosicanka]

@@unclecrusty9 Yes, I actually believe that. Thank you for being an awesome human . But the anti-Russian propaganda created by media in EU, US, Australia... is so toxic, I wonder if it haven't already poisoned people's minds.

[@Flint404]

Nothing really changed. The government takes an excise tax for all alcoholic beverages. And the tax is rising year after year.

[@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 : kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXm3nn1uaMibp9U 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 has to be mass protest against the genocidal alcohol and tobacco industries, which destroy a nation's future, in front of the Kremlin.

[@Vlad_-_-_]

Honestly with all the stereotypes I allmost always dismissed any video not made by a russian, because too many westerners see Russia and slavs only as " Lol, vodka drinking, hardbass, cyka blyat rush B, gopnik ". A russian knows his own country and history so I will take your word on it instead. Just subbed, guess I will binge watch your videos. Really good content !

[@kildarealeksen4140]

If you are Russian, watch your nation being destroyed by the tobacco drug, with the complicity of President Putin. By the way, protesting against Putin is imprisonment, but producing and selling drugs such as alcohol and tobacco is free: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpDPaa2ZirGcrJo

[@reyoo24]

For anyone wondering vodka is from Poland

[@sodinc]

The greatest polish weapon against russians

[@0lifetrue0]

Finally, the polish win! I've been waiting my whole life for this moment

[@0GRAII]

I can't fathom how this channel doesn't have hundreds of thousands of subs already, the content is fantastic and very well researched every single time. Thanks for another great episode!

[@OffGridInvestor]

It's because the algorithm is a mess. I used to watch another soviet union related channel where the guy only does sideshows of pictures and drones on for hours. He gets VERY upset by ANY criticism of anything and whinges about trolls literally every second day in community posts. After the HBO Chernobyl thing come out, he went from a few thousand subs to closer to 100 thousand. He blocked me over basically nothing. Meanwhile this channel has videos well set out, not ages of nearly aimless droning on that with a heap of stuff that doesn't translate well. And he's actually put a real effort into the footage, not just a bunch of black and white photos. He should EASY be near 200 thousand subs.

[@solanjedere]

Totally agreed. Just met this channel and I'm totally in love 😻

[@solanjedere]

@@OffGridInvestor do you remember the name of the channel? I would like to see it. X

[@zakofrx]

Google went on s policy of shadow banning anything about Russia that wasn't atatcking it... Facbook did the same thing but publicly.

[@andrewcruz1931]

Oh shut up

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

I have actually watched that Kraut video! That video taught me a lot about the history of vodka, and this video taught me even more! Thanks for the additional information about this stereotypical part of Russian history!

[@MrArthoz]

There was a study of morphine consumption between caged rats and "park" rats. Although the result is in some way inconclusive and rife with problems...some derive a correlation between the environmental enrichment with rate of self administered intoxicant. In my opinion drinking is not a problem...it's a symptom of a problem. Failures are due to people focusing on removing or hiding the symptoms but did nothing to cure the ailment. What disease may lead to drinking problem? Well, that's going to be another complicated issue altogether...perhaps politics, social, economy, education...it varies and even in an entire society, for every drunkard there's a different background story which leads them to the bottle. By the way, I'm broadly speaking about the entire world...not just Russia. There's even worse problem in other countries like Asia and Africa...not excessive drunkenness but dangerous drinking habits where it leads to many deaths or injury due to poisonous moonshine circulated in an unregulated market.

[@Cooe.]

Nah, hard disagree. Ethyl-Alcohol is one of the most GNARLY and DANGEROUS physically addictive drugs on the entire planet. It's very pharmacologically "messy" form of action & focus on the GABA-A receptor in particular make it among the relatively few physically addictive substances (notably along with the also GABA-A affecting benzodiazepines) whose withdrawal symptoms can actually (& often DO) KILL PEOPLE! Drinking in and of itself can most DEFINITELY be a problem if regularly done to excess, which can often just be solely to fulfill that innate human desire for "altered states of consciousness" or simply everyday boredom, & especially for certain people, as drinking induces dopamine release & euphoria and thus is a classical reward system re-use motivator. But once you are physically dependent on alcohol your personality/character flaws/environment have NOTHING to do with it. Alcoholism is a "disease" in every sense of the word. If you don't regularly drink you will start shaking, hallucinating, having panic attacks, and potentially lethal seizures ("delirium tremens").

[@MrArthoz]

@@Cooe. possibly, human is a complex organism physically and mentally, rats could never accurately represent us. Reason why I said the study was full with problems and controversy...ever a few KZbinrs had to retract their videos with its reference due to the controversy. I want to understand about drinking problem since a few of my friends are heavy drinkers. Sometimes I worry about their health when they're drank until they pass out. I could only rely on studies since I've never drink a drop of alcohol in my entire life while my partner got liver disease so he only had few sips during social events...though I had morphine before after surgery but I guess it's not the same.

[@Animaster89]

Its basically an escape mechanic from reality. For some its gaming for others gambling here its drugs

[@darthbanana7]

cope

[@richardsilva5110]

Bruce Alexander's Rat Park is the experiment you've talked about

[@LoLo-ns5iw]

Married with russian woman, half of.my familly is Russian then. Nobody drinks a drop of alcohol.

[@MATyoriy77]

Interestingly enough Russia is number 1 in the number of alcohol abstainers per capita in Europe, possible because many people traumatic experience with alcoholics. And much of total alcohol consumption is made by 10-20% of heavy drinkers, who drinks freaking tons of ethanol. But they number is steadily decreasing due to natural causes, that's why the total consumption per capita is also decreasing in the recent years

[@therzook]

as a polish, sadly we and Russians are not drinking that much anymore, we barely make it to top 20 of most drinking countries in the world. Nigeria drinks more and France is almost on top. So sorry bro but drunk Russian is thing of the past.... cultural artifact I would say...

[@maxezaz7694]

Thats good.

[@jangrosek4334]

The alcohol consumption ratings only calculate the consumption of pure alcohol. For example vodka, wine and beer will have different amounts of alcohol, so I suspect Italians, French and Germans drank more alcoholic beverages even in the worst times for Russians and Poles.

[@fanofcodd]

I'm French and I live in Poland. The big difference btween the two alcohol cukture is that in France we often drink wine for every major meal , two times a day. Not a lot , but still. Here in Poland most people drink only during the week end but can fuck a full bottle of wodka per people in one sitting

[@pacoramon9468]

7:21 Centuries ago the King of Spain obligated tabers to gift tapas so people didn't get drunk with wine. And that's how you fix alcoholism.

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

We have a similar culture in Scotland. The curse of the Celt!

[@fgjjdgb3949]

The ending is a little gloomy, as if everyone put an end to us, Borshchevik will destroy everything in the end...I'll go drink moonshine and sleep.

[@Kher4m]

did you add some borshchevik to your moonshine, comrad?

[@GeorgeSemel]

Well having an adult beverage ie beverage alcohol in and of itself is not a bad thing. As part of a meal for example. I myself never drink for the sake of just drinking. Only in conjunction with a meal or a special occasion like my birthday then I will have one cocktail. Usually an Extra Dry Beefeater Gin Martini on the rocks with a twist. The problem that people have is not being able to drink in moderation and knowing when to stop. I would never think that well I opened a bottle there for I have to drink it all in one sitting. I live in a small town, there are five liquor Stores and at 4 bars and all the sit-down restaurants also serve. And you can buy beer in the Grocery Store, we got two in town. I don't know how they manage to stay open, I guess people drink more than I do. Oh, and my Father was a Distiller and bottler of adult beverages.

[@ems7623]

There's nothing "wrong" with drunkenness either, per se. It depends on how you handle it (or not.). It you live around judgemental or religious people, there could be social consequences, even if you are a perfectly behaved drunk. But most of us don't live in such places. If you drink to excess routinely, then there's health consequences. But the occasional drunken night isn't going to hurt you.

[@marcobonesi6794]

i think it's because vodka was the main source of income of russian zars.So they had a vested interest to incentivate its consumption and it was/is a good way to keep the people in check.The second aspect was very important fo the soviets too.

[@nicobrits5111]

I think you need to read Solzhenitsyn’s Two Centuries Together vol 1.

[@NostalgicMem0ries]

This is similar in all eastern europe, im from lithuania, and we lead world in alcohol consumption for decades, or at least are in top 3 5... its all because of ussr collapse and insane 90s chaos, even tho people drank thousands of years before, but those numbers went up during soviet times, even tho ussr also tried to fight it with some programs, and after 90s during crisis times many turned to alcohol to kill pain they had both mental and physical. Now it became natural companion during various celebrations of person life, and sadly even after work or during weekends hard to imagine freetime without beer or sider , for women wine etc, in worse cases vodka ;\

[@phyllisdevries5734]

Alaska has now entered the conversation. We are quite fond of our hard liquor here my particular is vodka I think it is my Soul Booze😍

[@SovietMoviesExplained]

@@phyllisdevries5734, in colder climates (e. g. Alaska, Canada, Siberia 😉) vodka also has a reputation of a "warming up" drink and is treated (however unreasonably) as a necessity, rather than a treat.

[@ΑθανάσιοςΚΥΡΙΑΚΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ-θ7γ]

It has to do with climate. The colder it is the more people need alcohol. Its an instant source of energy and heat, although all the doctors will assure you the opposite. When it's minus ten and you're shivering, you only want a shot of vodka to get your system working. In Greece where it's hot, the most popular drink isn't raki but beer, which is more suitable for summer.

[@Bakarost]

Yeah in america the western expansion burbon was popular w settlers to keep warm in winter when on mountians

[@martinbadoy5827]

I guess the winners in the Soviet era were the pilots and technicians at bases that handled the MiG-25 and Tu-22

[@Obloms]

Yep. My grandfather served back in the 60s as a mechanic on an air force base not that far from Moscow. At that time pure grain alcohol was used for de-freezing the wings and other airplane parts. Basically everybody was drinking every day including base commander and commissar, except when inspectors came.

[@OffGridInvestor]

@@Obloms he means the AIRCONDITIONING SYSTEM in those aircraft basically ran on a 60% alcohol 40% water mix.... and if it wasn't hot that day, you kept the rest... There's aircraft videos on it.

[@cliftonkenny2507]

Great video loaded with hilarious but honest narration, complimented also with hilarious and honest comments . Thanks for the upload Sergei, and Ytube.🌴🇫🇯🌺🇦🇺😎👍🍺🥂🍻🍾🍷🍸🍹

[@蟹爪兰]

Очень классно презентуешь отечественную культуру англоязычному зрителю. Интересные видео, качество на высоте. Намного подробнее и интереснее видео краута, аутентичнее даже, что ли. Молодец, в общем!

[@stevenwilgus5422]

You are correct to make allowances for English. The English world evolved from the Teutons. Russia evolved from the Slavs. It is my hope that the two learn to respect the beauty in both cultures.

[@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.

[@ems7623]

Who is Kraut? Краута?

[@Bakarost]

​​@@stevenwilgus5422wat English world is mixed Celtic nordic roman etc

[@stevenwilgus5422]

@@Bakarost Very true.

[@Cooe.]

6:30 ... What a surprise, severe over-regulation is significantly WORSE for society as a whole than having minimal to even NO regulations, whatsoever.... NOT!l ( _Looks over at The War on Drugs_ )

[@Archer89201]

Not exactly Russians but my uncle's friend's during his college days from Uzbekistan, just gulped down 1 bottle each of vodka during summer in South India after a game of football. Among Indians we Arunachalis are among the per capita highest consumers of alcohol and my uncle is one of the heavy drinkers in the family but they drink on another level. P.S after the Pandemic my country opened liquor stores as the first business establishment because alcohol is the main source of revenue for the country and especially my state where it adds about 40% of the revenue budget minimum

[@julianshepherd2038]

No matter how much they drink, they are still thirsty in the morning

[@katkatthecat]

Sober Russian: TIME TO REVOLT!! Drunk Russian: TIME FOR ANOTHER DRINK!!

[@penguinpingu3807]

Russia does sure has an interesting culture and history

[@ЭЮЯ-о3к]

Russia has a very ancient history and culture. According to the Old Russian chronology, the year is now 7529 year.

[@nikeimizhongtomasch1880]

@@ЭЮЯ-о3к bullshit grandpa. According to Jamaican calendar its year 30,000. But those damn politicians used that document to roll marijuana though.

[@ЭЮЯ-о3к]

@@nikeimizhongtomasch1880 bullshit? This is a fact.

[@nikeimizhongtomasch1880]

@@ЭЮЯ-о3к what fact? Where is the document?

[@ЭЮЯ-о3к]

@@nikeimizhongtomasch1880 what document do you want to see?

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

In germamic society and in Medieval Britain Mead was a very popular drink.

[@talkingmudcrab718]

"Life is hard, and so am I." -People that drink

[@rdallas81]

And they are their own misery and stink.

[@anthonyparenti1928]

"The average Soviet man drank simply out of boredom." Ain't that the truth.

[@Gaming4Justice]

Here in Estonia when it became part of the Russian Empire after the Great Northern War, vodka burning became a gold mine. Local German landlords built many huge manor houses with the money they got from selling vodka back into Russian heartland.

[@ems7623]

Estonians were always the smart ones in the Russian Empire. Unlike several conquered Caucasian and Turkic groups who didn't see that resistance was just going to cause tremendous trouble, the Estonians profited off the Russians on the way into the Empire and negotiated their say out (causing the complete collapse of the USSR as they left.)

[@ems7623]

Why not drink a lot? As long as you don't do it to the extent that it ruins your health, just enjoy it.

[@FlyxPat]

I heard in Soviet Moscow there was vodka in the lobby of all official buildings in winter to warm up all arrivals. Couriers going from building to building would be smashed by noon.

[@OffGridInvestor]

You assumed that they had couriers.... command economy isn't really like that. Hell even AUSTRALIA in the suburbs isn't like that NOW because we don't have a million things getting delivered to us as much as FedEx who can slowly drive down a street and drop off stuff at every second house.

[@RM-el3gw]

Kraut sent me here. Nice vid - it's very thorough and well made.

[@unums]

If those in power really wanted people to stop drinking they would ban promotion and put a lot of Funds toward educating the youth for the next generations of alcohol and it’s damaging effects.

[@YBM2007]

there is already a ban on alcohol ads in many countries, also high alcoholic beverages is limited to state owned-shops in f.ex the nordic countries. the lesson from the 20s was that promotion of good health is way more effective than a total ban, which causes all kinds of problems

[@josephgilboy6259]

They do this in Britain heavily and yet they drink 2nd most in western Europe (after denmark). The USA, on the other hand, barely educates people on the dangers of alcohol and yet has far less alcoholism or even casual drinking My point being alcohol is a cultural thing, and that prohibition can sometimes change a culture for the better

[@xsc1000]

@@josephgilboy6259 Prohibition more likely makes maffia richer :-)

[@slawawacker]

BBC: "Russian alcohol consumption decreased by 43% from 2003 to 2016, a World Health Organization (WHO) report says. Alcohol-control measures introduced under former President Dmitry Medvedev included advertising restrictions, increased taxes on alcohol and a ban on alcohol sales between certain hours."

[@scaryclouds1403]

@@josephgilboy6259 prohibition can also make country full of criminals

[@ellaeadig263]

I love your channel! I have Russian neighbours and you are helping me understand them so much. Could you do a video on why Russians don't smile much? I have heard various explanations but would love to hear your opinion on it.

[@Setarko]

Ah well, actually there are a lot of videos already made on this topic, so I don't think I'll make another one. I won't say anything new - it is just not really customary to smile in Russia. Yeah, you smile when you are happy to see someone, but you don't have to smile just because that's "a polite thing to do". So yeah, a pretty boring explanation, but the closest one to the truth

[@solanjedere]

I find Russians very smiling actually. Specially at night lol

[@AndreAndre-yd5gw]

Eastern European here. Smiling randomly is for retards.

[@jimwright1148]

Orcs know no better!

[@admiralcraddock464]

Would you smile if you lived in that crap hole?

[@claudiograssi1037]

I've been in CCCP in 1984. Really impressive the long, long queues outside the shops selling alcohol.

[@Christian-mt5jx]

Great to see a Russian speak on this issue and it's history! Great video!

[@JS-wp4gs]

Clearly russians never learned to drink with the grain of the liquor

[@newguardian5725]

I must be an honorary Russian. Although I am Australian and haven’t seen snow since I visited the US. I also gave up white spirits as it’s too easy to drink 😅

[@nbundza1084]

Wonderful work, thank you.

[@irony8908]

Consumption per capita is down to around 10 liters per capita, which is less than France, Germany and a lot of other European countries. Heavy drinking is simply not a problem in modern day Russia.

[@electronicgrinsch]

@Andree De haan are you feeling better promoting assumptions against facts because you can enjoy better your "supreme western morality'". Fckng cheese supremacist

[@abnerdoon4902]

@@electronicgrinsch leave it to the west to lord over us as some sort of moral authority despite fucking us over in the past 100 years.

[@irony8908]

​@Andree De haan You could be right, but its actually a good thing. What this means is that instead of entire population consuming heavily, heavy consumption is even MORE limited to the few male alcoholics. Id take few alcoholic consuming as much as they want rather than entire population(especially fertile women and young adults) equally drinking heavily. So im still impressed with how successful and quiet anti-alcohol campaign in Russia was. Its not often any government does something competently.

[@annasolovyeva1013]

It is a problem with very poor male people. It's them mostly who drink.

[@Leo-yr5jb]

@@irony8908 modern alcoholic drink not vodka they use moonshine or ethyl alcohol all this is not taken into account by offset statistics. I would say most of the dews outside the cities of millionaires not only alcoholics. You can google the "Великий фунфурье" but now it dead not from alcohol .

[@rollyupsx886]

As an American thought it may not be to the same we have an opioid crisis for some similar reasons these days

[@jurassicchrist]

An epidemic of hopelessness

[@rdallas81]

100,000 dead last year OD dead. 40,000 shot dead on US streets. Now, h0m0 perversion indoctrination. Death to the US is already noticed.

[@nodancingpalmtrees7931]

Excellent video!! This was incredibly informative and well done, as always. Thank you for your fantastic content! ❤️🙏🏻

[@Twocat5side]

3:15 I can't even imagine Russia being a Muslim country

[@OffGridInvestor]

Ever seen chechnya? Muslim but still drink and gamble heavily. Funny when the war ended an Australian journalist was there. The head chechnyan guy declared that they now had the place again and that muslim laws were coming in, starting with a bsn on alcohol and gambling. Everyone cheered and EVERY guy was basically doing BOTH most nights anyway.... while cheering about the ban on the same things they were all doing.

[@Twocat5side]

@@OffGridInvestor Yeah but imagine the whole of Russia being a muslim country , the ramifications of those will be massive .

[@maxezaz7694]

@@Twocat5side Muslims still drink man. Many Muslim nations sell alcohol legally (Turkey, UAE, Egypt). However yes, a Muslim is supposed to abstain from alcohol. Im Muslim and gave up drinking some years ago.

[@Twocat5side]

@@maxezaz7694 yeah but most of the muslims don't, these countries are an exception because they are close to western countries

[@annasolovyeva1013]

Look at Tatarstan

[@itsanit123]

In general ive found the drinking in eastern europe is a bit exgerrated. The irish, scandis drink more. Its more Russians get drunk. They think they have a much higher tolerance than they do. They enjoy the sterotype even while they hate it. Before the 20th century alchol in general was weaker, people drank alcohol more often and the containers for alchol were smaller.

[@Марта-й7е]

На Балканите пием на малки глътки, за да ни е весело за дълго време, а в Русия - за да се напият бързо. Забиват глава в чинията или падат на земята. И в двата случая са като трупове - мъже, а и жени, макар и по-рядко. Това се случва навсякъде - по улиците, в метрото, най-добрият вариант е да е по къщите. Може би много стрес е причината за този начин на пиене. Споделям личните си наблюдения, живеейки няколко години в Москва.

[@A_Canadian_In_Poland]

"The Tatars not only taxed alcohol but appropriated all the profits from its sale." This accurately describes Canada in 2021.

[@ГригорийБуров-м1ъ]

Поздравляю с новым видео! Пойду выпью за это.

[@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.

[@igorkomarov4394]

Брат, видос супер, спасибо

[@MrTigracho]

The most powerful enemies of the Soviet Union: -Capitalistic America. -Alcohol.

[@Stozanume123]

Life in Moldova is almost the as in Russia . Most of the schools teach russian. love from moldova )))

[@Stozanume123]

@Monstermind 1989 you too

[@slayerSRBIJA89]

you guys are basically Romanians but you kiss Russia's ass, wtf?

[@Nista357]

Dunav ❤️ Dnjestar ❤️ Dnjepar ❤️ Don Family ❤️❤️❤️

[@Nista357]

@@slayerSRBIJA89 No one kisses anyone's ass. The man just stated some cultural similarities.

[@mp9313]

@@slayerSRBIJA89 so much basically Romanian that Bessarabia was a part of Russia for almost two centuries, while it was a part of Romania for only a bit longer than two decades.

[@markkrousos5011]

Это видео очень интересно! You have earned a new subscriber good sir.

[@nornje]

Towards the end this session gets brilliant. Thanks!

[@ricgunn1439]

People with out a hope in life drift towards alcohol 😠

[@BobSmith-gk9vs]

I need a drink.

[@michaelbizon444]

Because it sux there for most people. That's why they drink so much. Even at the dinner table kids drink too. So much do they drink some times men pass out in the winter and freeze is quite often. When times were harder in the West, we had a raging thirst too. Pre-prohibition bars in factory cities never closed open round the clock. Would cash your pay check too, so you had nothing to take home. Alcohol has been used to dull the pain of a hard life since the beginning. And one thing the Russians have is a tough life there, for most of them. And tradition, addiction, heredity & state liquor subsidies.

[@gabbyhyman1246]

When vodka came to Russia for the first time, where did it originate? The world is burning to a crisp and we're dying in a plague. I believe I'll have a drink. Na strovia.

[@Setarko]

It is believed that vodka was first brought to Russia by the Genoese embassy under the name of "aqua vitae". As to who invented it - don't know exactly. Most likely the Arabs.

[@Flint404]

"Na zdorovie!" Ironically it means "for health".

[@kotperdun8010]

@@Flint404 тост звучит "За здоровье!". На здоровье - это неправильная клешированная голливудская фраза.

[@gabbyhyman1246]

@@Setarko thank you for that info. I am a huge fan and appreciate all you do to make your videos insightful while keeping your great humor! Spacibo.

[@G-Mastah-Fash]

@@gabbyhyman1246 Aqua vitae seem to stem from Rome. But back in those days they just called all spirits by that name.

[@ItsTristan1st]

Hint, they don't. The average Russian drinks less than the average Brit. This stereotype comes from a short period in the 90s where they experienced a similar situation to the current US fentanyl epidemic.

[@markgrunzweig6377]

I saw a chart once, that showed the overall consumption of Russia that charted it, from about 30 years before the advent of the Soviet Union contuing through the current century. It was steady untiil the Soviet Union, where it went up significantly and flattened at that level. Untill the advent of an imported Christianity by the Czar, Russia it's native nature religions as did the indiginous peoples of The Americas, Africa etc.. Our Judeo-Christian relidgions are not to b

[@handsdown3521]

Czar? You mean knyaz, right?

[@SilentioMortus]

Nowadays, Russia drinks less than many "modern" and "developed" countries. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption_per_capita

[@OffGridInvestor]

The young people certainly do. Can't say that much about the older people.

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

The graphs you provided make a very good point! After all, some _Western_ countries (which you can usually count on for being less backwards than, or at least, _appearing_ less backwards than Russia) are _much_ worse than Russia, most famously Ireland and Germany, but also several other countries!

[@kellyvaters1689]

There's an overall decline in alcohol consumption, actually, in a wide range of countries. The trend is so acute that, at one point, a British pub was shutting down for good every couple weeks or so. With the health-related costs and the social costs, many younger people are moving to other activities that some of earlier generations would deem "childish."

[@oddjob7821]

"Filling the state coffers nicely ". 👌

[@adamclevi]

This is the best and more thorough description of the place of alcohol in Russian society and culture I have ever heard.

[@wilsonpereirajr.9874]

Thank you. You only forgot to say where vodka was imported from. Wonderful video!

[@kotperdun8010]

Poland.

[@wilsonpereirajr.9874]

@@kotperdun8010 thank you.

[@emmanuelfrancois3717]

@@kotperdun8010 no, Italy

[@trumpjdonald4780]

Poland or Italy/Genoa "Aqua Vitoe"

[@SusanKGreen-zu3xb]

I'm in Israel. We never had a lot of drinking here until the Russians came. I met a woman in my Hebrew class who is from Ukraine. The other day we had an end of the year party. Everyone brought snacks. No alcohol. She told me that when Russian speakers have a party they don't care about the food, only the drinks. When other Israelis have a party there is a lot of food, not much alcohol. For most Israelis, drinking isn't a big deal. I think that is due to Jewish culture.

[@CocoHutzpah]

One of the scientists where I work is a man from Russia. I've been tempted before to see how much he can drink, but I haven't really had any tactful opportunity to do so.

[@eurosonly]

When depression becomes mainstream subculture.

[@AcersNN]

You are underrated

[@joelkallio308]

No need to watch even. I am from Finland. It is our favorite past time too. If you were living in a rural industrial town you would be drinking too. Nothing else to do besides from drinking.

[@marky4x429]

wow, very authentic documentation when even the presenter is audibly pissed drunk

[@giggling_boatswain]

Actually, it's a myth. With the advent of the Internet, I was periodically interested in the amount of alcohol consumed by country. Russia ranked from 9th to 16th in these UN annual reports. So over the past 30 years, Russia is somewhere in the middle of the list. In bad economic years, the population of any country drinks more.

[@Brough1111]

High alcohol consumption isn't alcoholism. They'll just macho

[@RaptorJesus]

So I came into this video expecting the answer to be "Because they live in Russia". And at the end of the video, I learned it's....because they live in Russia.

[@peterschorn1]

"Green Serpent"--also maybe the copper condensation tubing at the top of a still, which turns green as it oxidizes?

[@thememe986]

im pretty sure the alcohol consumed per capita in russia is actually lower than europes. Make no mistake, russians drink alot, but europeans actually drink more; a lot more LMAO

[@dimushka383]

Of course, Russia ranks 37th in alcohol consumption in Europe. That is, 1/3 with minimal While in the top ten for alcohol consumption in the world, there are 9 European countries (only the Cook Islands are not from Europe in the top ten). In general, Europe is the drinkingiest continent, in terms of per capita consumption. But propagandists and KZbinrs are not interested in WHO or UN data; their users love propaganda with a can of beer.

[@imnobodywhoareyouu]

Great video. Just one question. Why do you think people is drinking less nowadays in Russia?

[@deryouc1362]

Putin's hammer! to make Russia great again!

[@ForOne814]

It's expensive, lol.

[@Лапша-ш5ж]

@@ForOne814 fun fact: people with lower income drink the most

[@MATyoriy77]

First of all, as setarko mentioned, nowadays there are much more entertainments than in ussr: videogames, foreign movies, concerts, social networks. Secondly alcohol presently is not so inseparable from any holiday, any meeting with friends. In soviet times it was expected to drink vodka with your close people, it was very hard to refuse, only accepted reason was heavy health problems, lol. Today new cultural norm is to drink just a couple pints of bear, or not to drink alcohol at all. And the final reason is drugs. Younger generation more often chooses cannabis over hard liquor. I hope i've answered your question

[@imnobodywhoareyouu]

@@MATyoriy77 thank you so much!

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

In the words of Eric Andre "Cheer, I'll drink to that bro."

[@messaround7755]

Statistically speaking, Russia is far from "the most drinking nation"

[@РулонОбоев-н9ъ]

Stereotypes tend to live long. Someone think we are still communist.

[@ficklefingeroffate]

If you had to live in Russia you too would be drunk your entire life.

[@guillaumechevalier3368]

Very nice video. Well researched and well presented. I like especially how you turned the barrels of powder in Eisenstein's Иван Грозный into barrels of wine. A very nice touch of montage mastery.

[@Sirzhukov]

And just to put it in perspective - Russia isn't even in the top ten countries by alcohol consumption. Even if statistics are not accurate, there are at least couple of national that drink even more. Alcohol is slow burning WMD.

[@kildarealeksen4140]

The issue is not cultural or liking, but the cost in lives. Alcohol is responsible for illnesses, deaths, homicides, car accidents, family breakdown, incapacity for work and infertility. And tobacco is responsible for many types of cancers and premature aging. I ask: how much does Russia spend on pension payments, early retirement, indemnities and hospital expenses? Without releasing Putin from responsibility, if the Communists had closed the genocidal alcohol and tobacco industries, the generation of addicts would have died in their sins, but they would have saved the later generations. Remembering that alcohol was resurrected by the dictator Stalin. By the way, why is the Putin government concerned about alcoholism and smoking? Public health and economic issue. And it's no use Putin launching a birth campaign if victims of alcoholism and smoking outnumber births. Anyway, either Putin has the courage to close the genocidal alcohol and tobacco industries or Russia will suffer the consequences: in 2020 more than 2 million Russians died; 25% of Russians are under 55; 1 out of three Russians are smokers (there are 500,000 deaths a year). Carlsberg, Philip Morris, British American Tobacco, among other Western industries of death on Russian territory, and the importation of more poison, namely alcohol and tobacco, prove that Putin does not defend the lives of the Russian people. Russians drink because of winter. Doesn't anyone drink in the summer? Or because alcohol comes from the Russian Empire, Russia has to live forever with this serious problem?

[@Islas_Canarias]

In the mid to late nineties I dated an 18 year old Polish guy who had migrated to Australia a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. His name was Krzysztof but I called him "Kris". We used to go bush walking. He would ALWAYS buy a bottle of Russian vodka and cheesecake at the end of our walks to celebrate. We would sit in a park and eat and drink until there was nothing left. He used to complain that the fall of communism left him ripped off because under communism he had a guaranteed job for life. But, once it fell, he had to leave Poland and come to Australia for work, where his divorced father lived. He taught me a lot about propaganda and any time he caught me "speaking in cliches" he would call me out and "re-educate" me in "correct thinking". He was a harmless drunk. Very sweet and affectionate. He ended up working for the Australian Beauro of Meterology and was even stationed in Antarctica for a year at the Australian Davis base. We broke up in 2000 after he came back from Antarctica absolutely bonking mad

[@SeattleMartin]

Interesting story, thank you for sharing with us!

[@Ironbattlemace]

As an alcoholic and Finnish, I drink a lot with Russians, even the Russians that ain't hobos drink a ton. 0.7l of booze is a warm-up.

[@denismorgan9742]

It's easy to understand why Russians drink so much, it's because they can't afford drugs. 😂😂😂

[@DS-wo8wr]

If I was a Russian, I’d drink heavily too!

[@rdallas81]

Russia ranks anywhere from 10th to 20th in alcohol consumption- So, what the hell are you talking about? 107,000 people overdosed dead in the US last year- and 40,000 was shot d3ad by other Americans. Can't say that for Russia.

[@8House]

I always thought it was the cold weather combined with the poverty of the masses.

[@connorellsworth9879]

Vodka is one of the only words that my friends can say in a Russian accent.

[@MrLouisRankin]

If you had to live there you would drink too.

[@andrejb2993]

Привет. Можешь рассказать западным людям про проекты Сталина. Я говорю про хлеб заводы и институты которые работали как часы. Мне кажется им бы было интересно об этом узнать.🤗

[@joeordinary209]

I am pretty sure i would also drink a lot if living a Russia

[@TravnickaRobija]

To summarize, their biggest tormentor, Stalin, weaponized it then used it on them.

[@L0L460]

The real question here is : what does to your genes hundreds of years or alcoholism?

[@mariusd8649]

War...😢

[@257796]

....A truly bi-polar guy he was. Great

[@decentrifytech]

Russians: Vodka to numb the pain of life Americans: Alcohol, Fentanyl, Opioids, weed, cocaine, meth, heroin, prozac, celexa, lexapro, zoloft, xanax... Clearly, free market capitalism has won the drug war 🤣😅😂😆😁😇🤪😶‍🌫😊 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@YuriNikolayavich]

Yeah, us Alaskan Natives have the same issue of alcoholism too...