Cows Look Like Maps@sh.itjust.works to Memes@lemmy.ml · edit-211 months agoA tsarrible idealemmy.worldimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1118arrow-down14file-text
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minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-211 months agoWasn’t it Lenin who banned vodka, then Stalin started a state run vodka company after he took over? Or did Lenin just reinforce the ban?
minus-squarePolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down3·11 months agoTsar Nicholas ordered prohibition in 1914. RSFSR retained it after revolution until it was abolished in 1925.
minus-squarelntl@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·11 months agothe royal family owned all the vodka companies/manufacturing before the revolution. it’s always been a tool to fill state coffers
Wasn’t it Lenin who banned vodka, then Stalin started a state run vodka company after he took over? Or did Lenin just reinforce the ban?
Tsar Nicholas ordered prohibition in 1914. RSFSR retained it after revolution until it was abolished in 1925.
the royal family owned all the vodka companies/manufacturing before the revolution. it’s always been a tool to fill state coffers