Vodka. The Alcoholic Empires. “I always have Plan B and vodka. If Plan B doesn’t work, vodka always does”

 

Schneider put down the paper and went to look at the supplies in her kitchen. She found a packet of flour and some butter. How long could the family live off that if the social-security system broke down? What would she do then? Googling for answers, she clicked on a website that offered advice for stockpiling on a budget. There she came across a word for such precautions that she’d never heard before: prepping.

“I always have Plan B and vodka. If Plan B doesn’t work, vodka always does”

Clement King

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Historic Photographs

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During the 1990s economic crisis, Russian teachers were paid with Vodka bottles.

Using vodka instead of cash made sense when actual currency was almost worthless. As the USSR collapsed and hyperinflation soared, Russians referred to rubles as “wooden” money.

In 1998, authorities in one Siberian district gave 8,000 school teachers 15 bottles apiece, in lieu of wages. The initial proposal, according to a UPI report, had been toilet paper and coffins, but vodka is favored as the only thing that could be freely sold or exchanged for bread and other food

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2019

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"陳先生，大駕光臨時我正在看簡介：The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka & Politics in Late Imperial Russia (English) 

Patricia Herlihy (Author)
The Alcoholic Empire examines the prevalence of alcohol in Russian social, economic, religious, and political life. Herlihy looks at how the state, the church, the military, doctors, lay societies, and the czar all tried to battle the problem of overconsumption of alcohol in the late imperial period. Since vodka produced essential government revenue and was a backbone of the state economy, many who fought for a sober Russia believed that the only way to save the country through Revolutionary change. This book traces temperance activity and politics side by side with the end of the tsarist regime, while showing how the problem of alcohoism continued to pervade Soviet and post-Soviet society. Illustrated by timeless and incisive sayings about the Russian love of vodka and by poster art and paintings, this book will appeal to Russian and European historians and those interested in temperance history.