Comments by "Biały" (@Bialy_1) on "Gorbachev's Total War Against Drinking in the Soviet Union #gorbachev, #ussr" video.

  1. Because west of Europe is switching to Islam and thanks to that drinking alcohol is "haram"... :P
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  2. Yea from your attempt to explain etymology i am preaty shure that word "samogon" have Polish origin... https://sjp.pwn.pl/sjp/samo;2518996.html and https://sjp.pl/go%C5%84 some people in Poland like to describe production of moonshine as "gonić samogon" for... in biased Soviet book "A History of Vodka" we can read that after years of painstaking research Pokhlyobkin concluded that Russia's first grain-based vodka could have been distilled at the premises of the Chudov Monastery in the Moscow Kremlin by a monk called Isidore circa 1430... vs. "The world's first written mention of the drink and of the word "vodka" was in 1405 from Akta Grodzkie recorder of deeds, in the court documents from the Palatinate of Sandomierz in Poland" and first real info written in Cyrillic appeared first in 1533, in relation to vodka brought from Poland to Russia by the merchants of Kievan Rus'...
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