Russia's Drinking Problem (2003)

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  • @XenonDiosmitide
    @XenonDiosmitide 2 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    "It's not an alcoholic drink, it's a soft drink"
    This was epic.

    • @danvincent2600
      @danvincent2600 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      A Lithuanian man I know laughs when I tell him I only drink beer and yet it is not just a soft drink as the cops will attest on the weekends

    • @markt926
      @markt926 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Maybe it's your breath

    • @samsquanch1996
      @samsquanch1996 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Considering that the average Russian probably drinks AT LEAST a pint of vodka a day, it's not a surprise that Russians wouldn't consider beer an alcoholic drink.

    • @j.c7719
      @j.c7719 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Beer gets you wrecked though 😂

    • @samsquanch1996
      @samsquanch1996 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@j.c7719 Russians are used to drinking necks of vodka, so to them drinking beer is probably like drinking Sprite.

  • @nancyhope2205
    @nancyhope2205 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    So sad. The people have had such a dreadful time. For centuries.

    • @Musiconabolsa
      @Musiconabolsa 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😅

    • @admiralbenbow5083
      @admiralbenbow5083 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You get the government you deserve.

    • @remaguire
      @remaguire หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The whole country suffers from PTSD in my opinion.

    • @DB-pp7kj
      @DB-pp7kj 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      God bless them. As a former alcoholic I shed tears knowing what those men grow up in.

    • @zeppelinboys
      @zeppelinboys 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@remaguire how could they not? WWI, then the Civil War then all the purges from Stalin, then WWII. I guess they caught a bit of a break when Khruchev and Breznev was is power but the collapse of the Union was poorly handled and now Russia is back in the shitter again.

  • @pattywickson9046
    @pattywickson9046 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    I don't blame them. I would probably do the same if I had to live in such a country.

    • @MargaritaMagdalena
      @MargaritaMagdalena 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Soon you'll be doing fetty to forget that you're not a Russian 😋

    • @ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13
      @ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Tell me about it some get there WATER from a WELL in some VILLAGES and don't even have ELECTRICITY and when they invaded UKRAINE the SOLDIERS stole TAPS/FAUCETS & TOILETS from UKRAINIAN HOMES and sending them back to RUSSIA .And they actually thought WATER came out the wall thats the gods honest truth they didn't know anything about plumbing and one RUSSIA WRITER once said if i fell asleep now and woke up in another 100 years what would i expect RUSSIA to be like?? And he said the exact same as it is today a bunch of ALCOHOLIC THIEVES 😂

    • @TheOne-er7nk
      @TheOne-er7nk หลายเดือนก่อน

      What about all the drinking in 2 ANZAC countries?

    • @MargaritaMagdalena
      @MargaritaMagdalena หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@pattywickson9046 Everyone knows you're on fetty and living in a tent, Patty.

    • @peterrobbins2862
      @peterrobbins2862 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Explains the rampant alcoholism in America doesn't it

  • @1timbarrett
    @1timbarrett 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    The “choice” between sodas and alcohol is a false choice. 😢 Neither product enhances human health. 😢😢😢

    • @grievetan
      @grievetan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      at least with soda you will not get impotence and you will not pee your brains out in toilet

  • @sirapos6550
    @sirapos6550 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I feel very lucky that I totally dislike alcohol - I always did, even as a teenager

  • @davestambaugh7282
    @davestambaugh7282 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    All you have to do is watch the many videos of traffic in Russia and you it will be obvious to you that many of the drivers are drunk.

  • @HitchHikersBlues
    @HitchHikersBlues 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    The US tried something similar nearly 100 years ago and it made the problem worse. Americans didn't like being told what they could and could not do.

    • @speterj
      @speterj ปีที่แล้ว +6

      USA has age restrictions. Alcohol prices aren’t as cheap. Even our commercials can’t show people actually drinking the product. Yet alcohol is a problem in the USA.

    • @jessaguila8368
      @jessaguila8368 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Can I drink with you?

    • @jessaguila8368
      @jessaguila8368 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You are my Heroe

    • @jessaguila8368
      @jessaguila8368 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I believe in You😅

  • @beltigussin81
    @beltigussin81 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Heavy drinking is considered heroic 😢

  • @MnemonicCarrier
    @MnemonicCarrier 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    This was made in 2003. Would be interesting to see if it still holds today. I spend about 6 months out of every year living/working in Russia. I don't know the stats, but on the surface the Russians didn't appear like they were hitting it hard (not in my circles, anyway). I mean, every now and then I came across someone who made/drank their own cha-cha. But from my observations, even those selling cha-cha from the trunk of their cars aren't doing too well these days.

    • @kildarealeksen4140
      @kildarealeksen4140 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Alcohol and tobacco are legacies of communism. And Putin does not defend the life of the Russian people: Carlsberg, Heineken, Budweiser, British American Tobacco, Philip Morris International, Japan Tobacco International.

    • @bodombeastmode
      @bodombeastmode 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yes, the amount of alcohol consumed by average Russian has decreased a lot.

    • @hansblitz7770
      @hansblitz7770 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It isn't even close to the epidemic levels that peaked in the 1990s- early 2000s.
      Now, Finland took the new title for drunkards, but hasn't seen the same levels of mortality, because the Finns binge drink a lot, but don't drink hard daily the way the Russians were/are infamous for.

    • @FrostySnow1000
      @FrostySnow1000 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      2024, worse

  • @charlesferdinand422
    @charlesferdinand422 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Alcohol is such a yucky drug: Tastes bitter like shit, has heavy secondary effects (nausea, increased urination, heartburn, etc.), it has a horrible crash (i.e. hangover), its effects last too little, it's weak especially compared to drugs with the same mechanism (e.g. benzos), it's more expensive than drugs with the same mechanism (e.g. benzos), it gives you alcohol breath, among many others.

    • @ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13
      @ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah i had a taste of it in my teens many moons ago and didn't like it and it's caused so many deaths over the years yet people think its just fun..

    • @BlyatimirPootin
      @BlyatimirPootin 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      And its boring af!

  • @davestambaugh7282
    @davestambaugh7282 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    If it was not for prohibition in the US, organized crime would never have grown to the proportions it has!

  • @markwarnberg9504
    @markwarnberg9504 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    A differance of drinking a nice cold beer on a hot summers day or sharing a brewsky with friends for enjoyment and drinking just to get drunk!
    An alkoholic is an alkoholic no matter what they drink.

  • @horstnietzsche1923
    @horstnietzsche1923 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Pretty silly for a nation with such a history of vodka addiction to worry about beer. If anything maybe it will make people get less drunk.

    • @ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13
      @ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Exactly..They think switching ALCOHOL to ALCOHOL will fix the problem?? What a sad mentality to even think that..SMH

    • @BlyatimirPootin
      @BlyatimirPootin 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It's still alcohol

  • @jamestaylor94b
    @jamestaylor94b 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Kinda weird to hear that Cola and Pepsi are the „healthy alternative“ to literally anything 😂

  • @samsquanch1996
    @samsquanch1996 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    1:49 "Why should I be careful? A beer a day helps!"
    His girlfriend/wife looks afraid.

  • @tropicalpalmtree
    @tropicalpalmtree 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    6:47 i bet some serious drunk fighting has gone down in that room

  • @наблюдатель-й8с
    @наблюдатель-й8с ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Привет всем из России,у нас сильно пили и употребляли наркотики,в 90х годах, сейчас уровень пьянства у нас в стране снизился

  • @АзизТургунов-ъ8ц
    @АзизТургунов-ъ8ц ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Russians didn’t drink vodka, russians diving in vodka

  • @willissudweeks1050
    @willissudweeks1050 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Beer is not a big deal at all compared to vodka.

  • @michaelstevens3479
    @michaelstevens3479 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Made in 2003 released three years ago and arrived today,? wow the speed of things today almost as fast as my pigeons.

  • @mingarida
    @mingarida ปีที่แล้ว +10

    How can anyone still defend the stance that weed is worse than booze …. I bet if we lived in a society where weed was legal and booze illegal …. The world would be a better happier, friendlier place

    • @СофьяОзерова-е9п
      @СофьяОзерова-е9п ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Легализация тоже ничего хорошего не сделала,мир был бы лучше,если бы люди были чистыми

    • @СофьяОзерова-е9п
      @СофьяОзерова-е9п ปีที่แล้ว +1

      А травка для многих является трамплином к употреблению других наркотиков

  • @oscargrainger2962
    @oscargrainger2962 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is why Ukraine has kicked their arses, all the troops are drunk.

  • @zawarudo6660
    @zawarudo6660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    is it me or is that a pro-lenin priest/monk? he has a lenin image in the background but seems to run a religious shelter-house

  • @spacecoyote6646
    @spacecoyote6646 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I am sick of Liberty Mutual ads period don't ever use liberty mutual period

  • @eddiequinn1335
    @eddiequinn1335 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    ' real men ' socializing. The stigma of admitting your an alcoholic adds to the excuses NOT to seek help .
    Dying a premature death is not off putting to an alcoholics way of life . Most of them long for death as they've not been able to figure a way out of their dilemma. Their behavior over a multitude of drunk episodes leaves them with the awakened state of remorse , guilt , regret and revenge especially when all of these feelings go unanswered hence the need for another drink to FORGET their past . Their future lives now revolve around alcohol and everyone knows it accept the alcoholic. The suffering alcoholic has one aim and that is oblivion. In oblivion you forget the past and don't create a future your terrified of . But again he wakes up and his one desire is another drink and another until he either seeks help beyond himself or commits suicide.
    There is a way out . I know .

  • @anuragpoddar8631
    @anuragpoddar8631 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    by 2016 russia's alcohol consumption by per head fall by around 46%

  • @keijulkyl
    @keijulkyl หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Maybe this is why everyone in Russia has a dashcam.

  • @kevincarlson668
    @kevincarlson668 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I worked with two expat Russians years ago.Great guys,but one smelled like a distillery on the job half the work week.And no,I didn't snitch.He took a bus to and from work.The other admitted he loved his Voddy,but just occasionally.Seems people in colder,northern climates drink more.Regardless of the quality of life,even.Alaska,Maine,Finland,et al.And Russia in the winter,fecking hell.

  • @mikeg3439
    @mikeg3439 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Not gonna lie, while I haven't touched the stuff in a long time now, because I just can't any longer, I LOVE vodka. It's basically getting very high, very quick. I'm too weak to manage it well so I just have to abstain. That stuff can ruin you.

  • @markironside9818
    @markironside9818 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I think Russia is the only country that drinks more than Australia

    • @ruslander1
      @ruslander1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Do some research and think again. Russia is not in the first place in alcohol consumption per capita. And it’s very funny how they put it in this video regarding beer… Germany, Ireland, Czech Republic are beer nations, not Russia 😂

    • @patdoyle2003
      @patdoyle2003 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Vodka is a different issue. Average age of russian male at death - 58. Reason - vodka, not beer.​@@ruslander1

    • @ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13
      @ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They drunk half the world's alcohol 😂

    • @beefchops1400
      @beefchops1400 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@ruslander1Belgians are the biggest beer drinkers in Europe!

  • @vilennon24
    @vilennon24 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    They need weed instead

  • @DidYaServe
    @DidYaServe หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They could use some legalised weed to take the edge off.

  • @bwin3401
    @bwin3401 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What is the lifespan of the women.

    • @grievetan
      @grievetan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      70 years at best

    • @AleksandrKoshakoffGS
      @AleksandrKoshakoffGS 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@grievetan why live longer?

    • @grimlund
      @grimlund 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@AleksandrKoshakoffGSWomen tend to live longer then men. Thats just the way it is.

  • @RMScott
    @RMScott 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This explains a lot about the current affairs. Sick and immoral.

  • @SuzanPeters-p4e
    @SuzanPeters-p4e หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beer drinking has put more people in prison than any other cause.

  • @Stick11-w4k
    @Stick11-w4k ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Russians drink about 15 liters

  • @LCTesla
    @LCTesla 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    So sad seeing those women in their 20s drink their fragile beauty away at 3x the already unforving usual rate

    • @fraiserkansteiner7115
      @fraiserkansteiner7115 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Says Mr. Tequila Sunrise

    • @LCTesla
      @LCTesla 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@fraiserkansteiner7115 its an easier choice when you didnt have beauty to begin with

    • @ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13
      @ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Theyll look like old women by the time there in there 30-40's with constant drinking 🍻

    • @peterrobbins2862
      @peterrobbins2862 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes it's so much more civilised in western cultures watching women get blotto on wine

  • @dmitriystepa1979
    @dmitriystepa1979 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I can give you a free idea for a great movie. Just find money and fly to the USA where you gonna find tons of similar materials even better.

    • @clancywiggam
      @clancywiggam 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Pathetic. You are jealous because the US is a sucessful society, russia is a joke. A drunken joke.

  • @chilliecheesecake
    @chilliecheesecake 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm spiderman

  • @karimtabrizi376
    @karimtabrizi376 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Russia in 2003 what about 2024?

  • @bingus9984
    @bingus9984 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    solution is easy. show some cases of methanol poisoning and scare people about unregistered distilleries and then pass a law requiring alcohol makers to be registered by the state, pass cleaning restrictions and make sure they have up to date licenses. next step push up the price of alcohol, whole at the same time sponsor alcohol recovery programs. if alcohol is too expensive people won't drink.

    • @garyaanderson214
      @garyaanderson214 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Some would spend everything they had for drink.Families of alcoholic heads of the house would even go without food.How about alcoholic family and neighbors stealing from you for drink

  • @sinisadimitrijevic1211
    @sinisadimitrijevic1211 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You better be concerned about drug cartels bringing drugs through the southern border and all sorts of crimes

    • @5688gamble
      @5688gamble 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Better worry about the cheap, legal hard drug: alcohol. Physically, alcohol is as addictive as heroin, more physically damaging too, and insidious, you can buy it anywhere without having to find the right connection. It's socially accepted too, I've never had anyone question me refusing any other drug, but if you refuse a drink people look at you like you're a leper. Alcohol is more dangerous than heroin, meth or crack when you ignore black markets and legal consequences. You'd be better having a nation booked in opium than alcohol!

  • @vbnmbgc
    @vbnmbgc 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @Loveexpressionmachine
    @Loveexpressionmachine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This is such an old video.

    • @jakubmaly50
      @jakubmaly50 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      isn't it still relevant?

    • @MnemonicCarrier
      @MnemonicCarrier 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jakubmaly50 Read my comment above. As someone who spends 6 months out of every year in Russia, it would be my guess that this documentary is outdated (although I admit, I don't have access to cold hard raw data). I even know several Russians who won't touch a drop - including my father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law. A lot has changed in Russia since 2003 - this doco is almost 20 years old now. The other reason I'd say I'm in a fairly good position to provide a "finger in the air" opinion about this is because I own/run a number of hotels over there. I've seen alcohol sales fall year on year (granted, the hotels I run are very family oriented). At one point, we suspected some of the staff were selling their own alcohol instead of the hotel's, but an investigation in to this showed this wasn't the case.

    • @211hitter6
      @211hitter6 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MnemonicCarrier and your also part of the KGB

    • @MnemonicCarrier
      @MnemonicCarrier 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@211hitter6 You got me! You're so clever.

    • @bodombeastmode
      @bodombeastmode ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MnemonicCarrier Yeah, alcohol consumption has fallen precipitously in Russia since around 2005 . It's comparable to US levels now.

  • @antoninjedla
    @antoninjedla 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Это вся Россия!!! Прошлое, настоящее и будущее! Россия - это бутылка хорошей охлажденной водки!

  • @MartinLaforce
    @MartinLaforce 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    11:49 my God...😐

  • @jackhaus5238
    @jackhaus5238 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Vodka all day long because it sucs there

  • @epicwarding
    @epicwarding 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    its not how long you live, its how you lived

  • @gustavlundin1920
    @gustavlundin1920 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    5:59 😃

  • @elizabethhurtado2829
    @elizabethhurtado2829 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    🥃🥃🥃🍻🥃🥃🥃🍻

  • @billycarr7446
    @billycarr7446 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Next up, "America's meth/fentanyl/heroin Problem".

  • @aaronTNGDS9
    @aaronTNGDS9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Most depressing and disturbing to see such alcoholism across an entire vast country. Painful to see so many in a stupor or struggling to walk upright. It's just one of the failures of Communism and an Orthodox Church, both joined at the hip and unable to inspire so many to transcend this debilitating addiction.
    Fortunately, Baha'u'llah not only forbids the use of alcohol by Baha'is in Russia and elsewhere, but He provides a vast body of transformative and uplifting Text that inspires one to wand to eschew the consumption of this poison. His Message is most appropriate for addressing this problem and so many others afflicting humanity nowadays. Problems which the earlier Religions perforce were not mandated to address the problem with the emphasis needed today.

  • @gavinkerslake
    @gavinkerslake หลายเดือนก่อน

    ваше здоровье

  • @AlexGarcia-ze4yg
    @AlexGarcia-ze4yg ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Why are Slavs generally stronger and faster than Western Europeans?

  • @adamson786bi3
    @adamson786bi3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    And people mock Muslims for not going near alcohol. In Islam ALLAH ALLMIGHTY forbids certain things because its bad for you, ALLAH ALLMIGHTY says everything that is forbidden is bad for you and the world in general. Their is wisdom in God's rules.

    • @evan8654
      @evan8654 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's more for the oppression of women/pedophilia thing.

    • @carsonchan5102
      @carsonchan5102 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      maybe have one drink and relax instead of blowing stuff up?

    • @booboocachoo5090
      @booboocachoo5090 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yet you guys produce and give your children opium to stop them from crying. Religion is always full of shit and hypocrisy

    • @Holmishur
      @Holmishur 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Religion is a drug on its own, we are all born free without any bullshit, or in a bad circumstances, family or lack of will form/corrupt us in some way. For some parents Islam is the way, for some its alcoholism for some its hockey,,, We learn from our parents, by how they live and so on.

    • @walter3433
      @walter3433 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, you're a better class of people.

  • @hazuone
    @hazuone ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good government..take care they people.. solute Russia.. but please stop drink that can't killing you someday.

  • @СофьяОзерова-е9п
    @СофьяОзерова-е9п ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Россия на 16 месте по алкоголю,это все ваши стереотипы .алкоголики есть,как и в других странах ,но во многих странах заливаюи похлеще

    • @Gypsum179
      @Gypsum179 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Russia #4

  • @duelenigma7732
    @duelenigma7732 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Putin toilet.