• unalivejoy
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    2 years ago

    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?

    • @[email protected]
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      172 years ago

      the royal family owned all the vodka companies/manufacturing before the revolution. it’s always been a tool to fill state coffers

    • @[email protected]
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      122 years ago

      Tsar Nicholas ordered prohibition in 1914. RSFSR retained it after revolution until it was abolished in 1925.