A history of the country’s struggle with alcoholism, and why the government has done so little about it.
Picture the Russian alcoholic: nose rosy, face unshaven, a bottle of vodka firmly grasped in his hands. By his side he has a half-empty jar of pickles and a loaf of rye bread to help the devilish substance go down. The man is singing happily from alcohol-induced jubilation. His world may not be perfect, but the inebriation makes it seem that way.
Today, according to the World Health Organization, one in five men in the Russia Federation die due to alcohol-related causes, compared with 6.2 percent of all men globally. In 2000, in her article “First Steps: AA and Alcoholism in Russia,”Patricia Critchlow estimated that some 20 million Russians are alcoholics in a nation of just 144 million.
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3 comments:
If anyone has ever worked in a seafood plant they can attest to this.Russians work their asses off unloading seafood products off of boats,but even while they work they drink vodka like water.Funny thing though,they never seem to get drunk.
This is a direct effect of Marxism.
People live there with no hope of a better future. They are apathetic and despondent. It is why so many third world peoples used to want to live in America.
It is exactly why Obama voters, Ie, democrats have much higher instances of alcohol and drug related issues as well as higher rates of incarceration.
They just have not figured out that Marxism kills as it demoralizes a population.
My old man was Russian and a drunk.
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