This is why we call 'ol Vlad the "Gremlin in the Kremlin," and all his little helpers "Kremlin Gremlins..." SLAVA UKRAINE!!!

Russian alcohol consumption has fallen by 43% since its peak in 2003 Average alcohol consumption per person: Russia 10.42 liters UK 10.82 litres Spain 10.92 France 11.3 Poland 11.63 liters Germany 12.22 liters Source WHO

Patreon lol? CIA not paying you enough?

That stat is from 2003 through 2016. It doesn’t account for the spike back up in the years following Putin’s removal of the restrictions.

@@icarusproject The percentage of young Russians aged 14 to 22 who consume alcohol decreased by 2.3 times from 62.1% to 26.9% between 2006 and 2019. I doubt they'll suddenly start drinking alcohol in 2023.

Underrated joke hahaha

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😂 true

@@chriskessell4579 Europa: The Last Battle is a neo-Nazi propaganda film. Source: Wikipedia

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U.S: Write that down. WRITE THAT DOWN!

Russian alcohol consumption has fallen by 43% since its peak in 2003 Average alcohol consumption per person: Russia 10.42 liters UK 10.82 litres Spain 10.92 liters France 11.3 liters Poland 11.63 liters Germany 12.22 liters Source WHO

@@slawawacker Yes but its also very important to put down what sort of alcohol is consumed. Since UK, Poland and Germany will be mostly beer and Spain and France will be wine which are low alcohol content while Russia drinks mostly vodka which has a high alcohol content.

@@mrfun177 Consumption in litres of PURE alcohol

@@slawawacker then i highly doubt those numbers with the rampant alcoholism in Russia compared to all the other nations you listed.

Or if they spike them, put laxatives or emetics in instead.

Suggested that very thing in the second month of the invasion but nobody picked up on it, unfortunately.

Getting people to drink something is a lot harder than just shelling them.

Not a good idea mate the first thing the Germans did when there town was about to be overrun by the Russians they’d destroy all the alcohol so the Russians would rape/kill less, should always be poison tbh

Ukrainians would drink them themselves first because of the awful situation they're in, being forcefully conscripted, having a terrible economy, having a terrible future and all that,

Those calls are all fake. Urkaine cut off phone acces to Russian SIMs and devices on March 3rd; none of the calls are real as they physically cannot happen.

Any proof of this?

@@buddymacbuddington Look this up: ДІДЖИТАЛ РОСІЙСЬКО-УКРАЇНСЬКА ВІЙНА З України більше не можна зателефонувати до Росії: що відомо 03 березня 2022 в 21:33 16726 I even got it for you in the original Ukrainian.

@@buddymacbuddington 80 proof

@ranranran8316 ill take it as no evidence then original poster was just spouting shit with no back up

Do you by any chance remember the name of that documentary?

Well the Chechens - being muslim - should at least have been sober.

I remember That interview! From the late 1960's up to the collapse of the USSR my father was the de facto Soviet Consul in Shoreham (near Brighton) on the South Coast of England. Shoreham was one of the major timber importing ports in the UK at the time. On occasions you could have as many as 10 to 15 Soviet ships in the port at any one time. I remember Dad having to spend a lot of time in Brighton having to sort issues with drunken seamen!

Drunks are infuriating when you're trying to get things done and they keep getting in the way and messing everything up. I can't even begin to imagine how apoplectic soldiers must be when it's their men who are too drunk to do their jobs... God that be murderously enraging.

That stuff is how do you say it. AAH SWILL

Poland has been a magnificent ally to Ukraine, and a prominent critic of the Kremlin regime....you Polish people should be proud.

There is nothing wrong with the vodka in fact it gives people a lot of relaxation and fun, the problem is with the over consumption and creating an entire culture around it. Drinking to relax is normal, drinking to excess is stupid !

Polish vodka is smooth though.

I'm not sure if Poland actually invented Wodka first. It doesn't mater. If it comes from Finland, its the best. Now, being glad for Ukrain, I'm surely not happy of polisch conservative liberal cristians blocking demoracy and defiling rule of law dominating are the good guys. But I'll take a glass on that. Whisky, on the rocks.

Didnt hindu people invent destilation?

Just like Putin empties the ethnic oblasts, jails,drunks,druggies,HIV ,TB and Hepatitis into the frontline trenches. Calculated removal of problems.

In Moscow this was probably considered a case of "problem solved!"

Capitalist lies! Everyone knows there was no homelessness in Soviet Union.

@@erloriel kinda feels like they knew this would happen

My god, this english hurts my years. BurnED!

Also the smoking of tobacco, nicotine is a pretty strong nootropic.

Doesn't really make much sense, though. The development of a strong middle class through advances in technology made it pretty much inevitable.

In fact, because the quality of life has improved. In poor countries there is always a high level of alcoholism, smoking tobacco or consuming some other crap that gives a short-term “high” but is addictive

Before people drank coffee, they drank chocolate. Brought back from the New World during the age of exploration.

Intriguing but then remembered Islam.

The Russian people seem to have been abused and exploited nonstop for nearly a century. To the point where poverty and hardship has become cultural to them

This is literally the same for ALL dictatorship countries. North Korea, China, all African countries, etc. There are more than 50 dictators today in the world, and all of the populations where they reside are under extreme distress and are being exploited. When people think of communist dictatorships they only think of North Korea but that is not the case. There are so terribly more countries where shit is fucked but nobody actually thinks of the Russian Federation as a dictatorship anymore. But it is.

Closer to a millennia than a century, unfortunately.

It's USA who invaded and destroyed multiple countries including Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria and US has been continuously drone bombing the the Middle East for last two and a half decades but of course all that is justified cause it's the US doing it. Duh.

I can recommend an audio book by Martin Sixsmith. His summary is that at every moment in Russia's history the country chooses an autocratic tyrant rather modern political structures.

Life is so much better without that poison. I wonder how many have died from withdrawal.

Same here my friend. Was a cocaine addict for 15 years. Been nearly a year clean now and what I've found is the cravings never go away but you learn to deal with them a lot better. When I was first getting off it people couldn't even call coca cola "coke" around me because it set me off. Now I look back and it makes me laugh almost. Wasted my late teens and 20s on that shiy

@@christycullen2355 The first thing I think of when someone says addiction is actually coca cola. >.> The stuff they sell today has an addictive quality to it. Once you stop drinking it for awhile you lose the addiction your body adjusts to normal and you can taste what its really like. Horrible flavor. More on topic to your story,... did the stories of how cocaine used to be in that drink back ages ago cause you to react to it, or just the name itself? "coca" leaf is the main ingredient for both, hence the name. Withdrawal mustve been a pretty hard. I can only imagine.

One day at a time my brother. God has you in his hands.

Russian alcohol consumption has fallen by 43% since its peak in 2003 Average alcohol consumption per person: Russia 10.42 liters UK 10.82 litres Spain 10.92 liters France 11.3 liters Poland 11.63 liters Germany 12.22 liters Source WHO

@@slawawacker I believe they may not have accounted for DIY alcohol, which I understand to be much more prevalent in Russia.

@@misterx-gy3fg As a result of government actions, the period from 2003 to 2017 saw the prevalence of alcohol dependence in patients registered in state-run treatment services fall by 38%, the prevalence of harmful use of alcohol drop by 54%, and the prevalence of alcoholic psychosis reduce by 64%. Additionally, cardiovascular deaths, which are thought to mirror changes in per capita alcohol consumption, showed a decline of 48% in men and 52% in women during the same period. And homicides, suicides, and deaths from transport accidents-all further indirect indicators of the effects of alcohol consumption-decreased by 56% in both sexes during this time.

At least for Germany I can say most of that consumption is bear. (Here in Bavaria it even has a lower tax rate because it counts as a fundamental foodstuff) With drinking culture at least where I live is quite regularly but not getting shit faced. And I think drinking culture can really make a difference. I don't know much about Russian drinking culture so I don't feel comfortable making a blanket statement.

@@slawawacker Yes, those points would certainly support your assertion!

I hope you're over it now.

Rhinophyma

@@16rumpole that's something else

I went skiing and my nose got sunburned, as my goggles didn't cover it and my baklava kept sluding down. At the end of the week, nice red nose. Between the "Found the bar, did you?" jokes and comparisons to Rudolph thecred nosed reindeer, I had many reasons to hate being back at work.

@philiptownsend4026 I actually reverted to Islam I can't drink anymore

Right, it never happens here in America.

​@@strfltcmnd.9925who tf ever said that 😂

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it ruined russia long before the federation the ussr dating back to the empire

Russians ruined Russia

Russia also uses vodka to contorll the people

Russian alcohol consumption has fallen by 43% since its peak in 2003 Average alcohol consumption per person: Russia 10.42 liters UK 10.82 litres Spain 10.92 liters France 11.3 liters Poland 11.63 liters Germany 12.22 liters Source WHO

​@slawawacker but Germans would most likely drink beer while russians drink hard vodka. Your comment is pointless.

The Irish took potatoes and invented potato crisps, the Russians invented vodka

Except it is very possible that poles invented the vodka.

wouldnt even say its a putin thing. Alcoholism was so bad during Soviet times that the first post soviet president, formerly the top ranking soviet, was viewed as a laughing stock both at home and abroad simply because he was the first Russian politician to be exposed to a free press. A Soviet fleet once lost a bunch of top admirals due to a plane crash because the passengers got drunk and overloaded the plane and its likely the planes crew had been drinking too. Booze was found even in the control rooms of Chernobyl and drunkenness was one of the main causes of the disaster. Under Stalin food grain was sacrificed to make more vodka and people were paid in vodka even when people starved. The Winter War and the beginning of WW2 went so badly for Russia partially due to rampant alcoholism and drunkeness. One of the USSRs main ways to pay people, make income, and to control the populace was vodka. I dont remember the numbers but vodka was by far the Tsars top revenue sources, if i remember right even into WW1 the state made more off vodka than they did off industry meaning alcohol was more important to the economy than factories and from what I've read one of the only rasons the Soviets cant say the same was thanks to their massive oil and gas reserves. Putin just picked up the legacy of Stalin, Lenin, and Nicholas.

​@@arthas640 FACT 👍

@@arthas640In fact alcohol consumption fell by 43% under Putin, alcohol deaths and poisoning fell drastically and average life expectancy increased by over 10 years since 2008

@@lrn_news9171Life expectancy in russia is now 70 yrs, still 12 years lower than most civilised countries...

@@patverum9051 Life expectancy as of 2023 is 73 years old and increasing steadily. The point was Russia improved and this point has been made sufficiently. 43% decline in alcohol consumption now on par with Germany. By the way, life expectancy is set to fall in the United States, but Russia is set to increase steadily. Russia is now the biggest organic food producer in the world with a very low obesity rate.

In Poland we have "you are doing that in a russian way" and it means you are doing it wrong, or not in the best possible way 😂

@@adrianredzik725 hahaha these are awesome

Could you please tell me, what's exactly?

@@user-kv3ww2gb2e You have to be Finnish to really understand the meaning..

@@janko6608 Really? Another God chosen people?😂

Shh, US is perfect. Perfect hegemon of the world. They will drone bomb any country to stone age, install puppet govt and funnel all the wealth to US contractors for "reconstruction". They funneled Russian wealth in the 90's with Larry Summers and his cronies too but shhh.

Russian alcohol consumption has fallen by 43% since its peak in 2003 Average alcohol consumption per person: Russia 10.42 liters UK 10.82 litres Spain 10.92 liters France 11.3 liters Poland 11.63 liters Germany 12.22 liters Source WHO

​@@slawawackerBased on data from the Russian state. Considering how Russia has falsified covid death and war causality numbers, I would take those numbers with a grain of salt.

​​@@slawawackerWHO pointing to rosstat as a source

@@slawawacker Problem is not the amount of alchohol drank but how strong it is......Russian Vodka being a lot stronger than say the wine which accounts for most French and Italian consumption by volume or English and German beer. The other major problem is that alongside the legal measured alcohol shown in official figures the Russians also drink a lot of home brewed moonshine cooked up by anyone with a Dacha and a few potatoes and that stuff can be true fire water. Not saying Russia drinks nothing other than spirits or that other countries do not drink spirits or brew stuff at home. But their is a reason France linked with Wine, Germany with Beer and Russia with Vodka. Pretty sure my liver would sooner deal with 11.3 liters of Wine than 10.42 liters of Vodka

My Scottish grandfather explained his family leaving Glasgow for England, "anyone with get up and go, got up and went". It's whiskey there.

@robertfarrow5853 Scots are just Irish people, makes sense.

@@robertfarrow5853 "It's whiskey there." As in whiskey in England, io England is a better place? I am an American, so maybe I'm missing something.

А с чего вы все взяли, что в России много пьют? Из этого ролика? Приедь в мою страну и посмотри на реальную обстановку и не смотри пропаганду.

My cousin is a Paramedic for a major West Coast city. He tells me that Russians are masses at exploiting the financial and social benefits that the Federal and California governments provide. These scammers all need to be deported.

"A long time ago" yeah. Alcohol consumption fell by 43% in Russia. Alcohol poisoning and deaths drastically declined as well, life expectancy for men increased by more than 10 years since 2008

@@lrn_news9171And who makes these statistics?

@@IhaveBigFeet Idk but source is WHO

@@IhaveBigFeet Alcohol sales are probably a good indicator for how much people are drinking.

@@IhaveBigFeet Russia introduced restrictions on alcohol such as doubling the price of alcohol via taxation I believe and having the liquor stores close down earlier, prohibiting the sale of alcohol passed 9 pm I think.

Yes, *Sto Gram* in excess.

Hey, look, its Homestar!

There are many things that fall into the category of 'if it was invented today it would be banned', that doesn't mean that everything is terrible, it means that we are less tolerant ! Motorcycles, chainsaws, portable angle grinders (tool for thieves), petrol, explosives etc, etc.

Prohibition can make everything worse.. but in that manner alcohol is much worse than something like opiates, that if opiate addiction gets treated and user gets his daily dose from doctor (right dose, right kind of opiate..) it won't make addict unable to function and live normal life.. same thing can't be done with alcohol addiction. Alcohol causes horrible problems even under lawful use, drug users problems are higly influenced by problems caused by prohibition.

@@jm8k Most people don't understand how bad alcohol addiction is. It's far worse than being a heroin addict. At the least, a heroin overdose is a quick death, liver failure is most definitely not.

Only since I quit have I realised the grip it has on people. Now I know how it scrambles a brain, I'm amazed there are not major political campaigns to get us off it.

@@TonyBustaroni If comparing only addiction yes, but that's only one way drugs can be harmful to user. Meth is very much more harmful substance in long run, weed is not poisonous so weed can be consumed even in daily basis without it having bad effects to health. Differences in person are of course important but it doesn't mean there's no differences in these substances. And meth causes serious withdraval symptoms so it's much more likely to make serious addiction to meth than weed. So there's differences in addiction too. And as weed is not that bad to health, weed addiction may not be allways so big problem if it's possible to just satisfy that need and live with high weed consumption. Trying to live with high meth consumption is not that easy.. Of course there can be destructive addiction towards allmost anything but it doesn't make anything equally addictive and specially not equally harmful. I had serious drug problems before, from early 2000's to 2019.. having tested something like 150 different chemicals back then. Stimulates like mdpv was my thing as I imported them myself from china and made very high drug consumption possible that way. Usual amphetamines was just waste of time after that and my own way of import was dying out as laws changed.. so I needed to stop, my heath was getting worse too. Paralysis, psychosis, there was lots of times in hospital in that lifestyle. Those drugs would have had me killed if I wasn't able to withdrav myself. So do I have that addictive mind or not, but I smoke weed, allmost daily, it has not been a problem for me or people close to me. I can be without weed if there's something else to do, but as I'm retired because of my health issues there rarely is. Weed consumption doesn't require me to make that scale of crimes and I'm not doing any harm to myself or others by that. Weed consumption is not killing me, like I would allmost certainly be dead if I've continued.. I also dont drink any alcohol, that would kill me most quickly as I have kidney condition.. So you are really wrong by that, it's not like these things are same because they all can cause addiction and some people are more drawn towards addictive behaviour than others.

Hope the grandmother was okay.

As someone who unknowingly drank spike beer (fortunately my strong constitution meant I remained in control, albeit with difficulty in my faculties) I normally would condemn the tampering with food and drink... normally.

They obviously underestimated the dislike of Ukrainians for Russian presence before the revolution.

Who else believes in these fake calls lol?

Welcome aboard!

Hmmmmmm, profile page says "The Icarus Project@icarusproject39.3K subscribers21 videos Documenting the downfall of Russia with humor and wit." I'm sure this isn't propaganda or manipulating in bad faith at all!

Fuck alcohol smoke weed 👍

Tea, it's tea, per capita and absolute, no competition. The army even gets tea rations, RosCosMos sends it to space, and universities offer free tea at exam crunch times.

Russian alcohol consumption has fallen by 43% since its peak in 2003 Average alcohol consumption per person: Russia 10.42 liters UK 10.82 litres Spain 10.92 liters France 11.3 liters Poland 11.63 liters Germany 12.22 liters Source WHO

I have spent some time there also. The types of people I was with (ran orphanages) weren't sloshed all the time. But they would get in a funk & drink heavily to be sure. It can be a hidden problem. Especially in the provinces. It is like any country. You have some that won't touch it, but most do & many times to excess. Ergo all the orphans. Some other channels paint a much more bleak picture but it is usually localized. Not like the whole country is that way.

Let's see, Tennessee is having huge problems with Opioids, especially fentanyl, but our local government made it practically impossible to sue Big Pharma, and our Oxycontin Queen of Tennessee Blackburn didn't return money from her donors, Chinese Opioid producers. There is so much about alcoholism and drug abuse in Russia. 😂😂😂

@@slawawacker really? my god. i wonder how much vodka swedes drink? i usually avoid it but beer/wine/cider is fine. here in sweden the "systembolaget" has monopoly on alcohol and it's very expensive but you can find the weaker type of beer (nothing else) in grocery stores (3.5% max)

u rooting for the nazis?!

@z: You rooting for no key caps? Slava Ukraine!

@@zillsburyy1 Dude, read the second to last sentence again.

@@zillsburyy1 Hate speech reported, may you soon be drafted.

Vodka is a great drink for a alcoholic. It's incredibly cheap. Even terribly badly made vodka is very drinkable, without offending taste of smell. The overall flavour is fairly mild, while whisky, gin, rum or things like Jägermeister often are an aquired taste. By being almost pure ethanol and water it reduces hangovers. Almost perfect to get wasted on.

Its very fucking inaccurate 😂😂. Did it happen yes, but its not that many that it affected the war that bad. Dont act like US soldiers dont do drugs😂😂

getting paid in vodka basically like if it's a currency (definitely more valuable than the ruble, lol)

its like saying someone doesent have a coke problem if they only do it with company

Это бред полнейший.

Thanks so much for your support!

That' story is crazy 😂

But true. The TU-22 hat an air conditioning system which worked by evaporating alcohol. What remained after the flight was distributed among the soldiers.

It was ethanol used to cool the engines, not the pilots. @@thiloreichelt4199

Mig-25, too - “the Flying Restaurant/ the Flying *Distillery”*

The German V2 rocket used alcohol for fuel, there are many stories of truck loads of it going missing during testing forcing them to switch to a less drinkable substance !

For the first time in theirs live they learn that vodka can be poison 😂

Old trick. They did the same thing to the NAZI's

Poisoned vodka ! 😉👍

​@ianc4901 honestly, regular vodka will do as well. If they are too drunk to fight, then they are too drunk to win.

Yes, well-aged, charcoal filtered, and most of all, *overproof* - e.g. “144 proof brain cleaning solvent.”

@@dennisyoung4631 Get all the stills of Appalachia on it.

@@Shaker626 no, shipping would be an issue - at least, shipping the finished stuff. Best to make the equipment needed, then crate up the “eighteen-stage column stills”, 100(0) liter mash tubs, grain-grinders, filtering columns - as well as the raw feedstock stuff needed to make ample amounts of “Brain Cleaning Solvent” - and send it to locations in Ukraine well back from the front lines. Doubtlessly there are plenty of “Aunties” there who know just *how* to make “the very best Horilka” - and then, it just needs sneaking into the occupied areas, and planting where the Ruské Soldati will find it!. Oh, and add a little phenolphthalein for “flavoring.” Trashed Ruské with their bowels in a dither should cause maximum disruption! Then, once the Ruské have gone back to where they came from, or are stinking up compost heaps making fertilizer - the distilleries can be used for making more prosaic materials for “celebrations” and exporting.

Ну вот, а говорят что русские много пьют.

They probably were drinking all day, before joining you.

@@davidtrindle6473 No, they had been out shopping

… so, would that be an event of herpetocide by Venomir Venomirovitch, or might “Vipermir” say it better?

Or, “don’t drink the Samogon.”

Its impossible to find out how much the average Russian person drinks per year Reason 1: from who they have the information? From the Russian government and they don’t tell the right information to the world. Reason 2: russia is way to big and has 1000 of small zivilisations spread so far from each other and isolated that it’s impossible to find out what the average of them all is Reason3: a very big part of official Russian citizens are actually not Russians. There are many Muslim minorities that don’t drink alcohol like chechens, tatars, Ingush, dagestanis and many more. they officially Russian citizens and are calculated in the „average Russian person drinking“ but they are no russians. Don’t believe all that google tells you and yes Russians drink way more than Germans or British people

Russian will drink vodka even if it is laced with heavy laxatives, haha. Poor sods are just that desperate for comfort.

Same as Guinness is supposedly an Irish drink but legend says it was invented in wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Водка это национальный напиток России только в пропагандистских роликах. Я русский и употребляю алкоголь 2-3 раза в год, только по праздникам.