Russia's Alcohol Problem
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World’s first trillionaire: the first Russian to perfect a synthetic liver.
best part cyberpunk sci-fi shit is the artificial/cloned/lab grown/enhanced organs
Scientists recently found an enzyme in human body which causes fat loss, no matter how much you eat. Technically, it's possible to create an actually working fat loss pill (of course decades of research is still needed). Whoever will own the patent for that, is gonna be the richest man in the world over night.
Peter Sniffin - Well, it seems over a million humans die every year from starvation. The LAST thing we need are selfish gluttons eating far more than they need with impunity.
@@charleshamilton9274 economics though
@@Dr.Johnson It will probably be sold cheap to some multi-billionaire corporation.
Famous Russian anecdote:
The daughter asks her father after alcohol price has risen: "Does that mean that you'll drink less?"
Her father: "No, it means that you'll eat less."
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ffs LOLOL!!!
Not funny
Russia have so strange stream in anectote black humor with. And count of this anecdotes increase in the black time for russians. Perhaps it is helps passing by this time for russians. Anyway, humor is only humor even black humor.
@Kulo Nuwun 30 years of capitalism in Russia what do you want?
I started drinking alcohol years ago as a teenage, spent my whole life fighting alcohol addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
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How do I reach out to him? Is he on insta
Yes he's Dr.alishrooms.Shrooms to me is a natrual healer. I know a guy who has used mushrooms in the same way and they have really helped him. mah dudes have safe trips all.
wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Quitting alcohol is pretty easy actually, done that like 67 times already.
And that was just today. Tomorrow I’m shooting for 70.
Ahahshsgsgsgsgsgaga
Riiiiiight, cuz stopping for an hour counts 😀😀😀😀😀
Same w me and nicotine! Super easy
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Hungarian here. My grandmother didn't have a day without two shots for at least 50years
edit: she is about 80 now
Croatian here. My grandma claims the day doesn't even start before a shot of plum schnapps. :-D
Jó magyart látni:D
My roommate use to drink whisky at 2-3 am daily to concentrate on studies
Fff
@@parasnaradiya2608 my stepdad hasn't had a day without minimum 200 ml of vodka Lithuania is even higher than Russia, I guess Russia has less since more Muslims
Im from Romania, and it sounds so weird to me that RealLifeLore sound borderline shocked at these numbers, while here it is normality for the older men. Eastern Europe is really drunk.
I'm American and I'm shocked by these numbers, in 2010 Russian males averaged less than 1 drink per day. Doesn't seem like very much to me.
I'm from Macedonia and I wasn't shocked at those numbers at all.
Exactly, I'm from Bulgaria and we drink Rakija on every occasion. It's a tradition for every grandfather to teach his sons and grandsons how to brew it at home. I live in the city so I can't brew it at home, but when I stay with my grandfather for a while to help him with the farm we drink almost every night. If someone asked me on average how old boys are when they have their first drink I would say around 13 depending on the family. My grandfather told me the first time he got drunk was 5 years old when his father left him alone in a room with the wine. I am not ashamed of this in any way because I agree that drinking is part of our Bulgarian/Balkan culture.
The new Z generation drinks much less than the Y and millennial generations. The baby boomers still drink as much, if not more, than they used to. As the boomers die off the numbers will shift to less alcohol consumption.
Eu am fost mai socat de faptul ca suntem in top alaturi de ei. Romania is so alcoholic as to be between ukraine and russia when it comes to average alcohol consumption per capita? That s fucked up. I know there s a lot of drunkards in Romania, but in top 6 world record!?!?! We need to start discouraging homemade tuica.
Russian Traffic police stops a car.
Policeman asked the man, Have you drunk vodka today?
Driver: No.
Policeman: Breathe into the tube... Well, no alcohol is detected... Maybe the tube is broken… (breathes into the tube himself) No, it's working!
Lmao
*haha, you got the whole squad laughing*
*HAHA TOATALY NOT AMERICANISED PROPAGANDA THINKING, HAHA*
Milena Malesevic WeirdChamp
Russian Traffic police stops a car and asks the driver to breathe into the tube. It shows 0.8 pmm.
"Well, you've got me" - says the driver.
"Wanna bet $1000 that we didn't?" - asks the officer.
I'm from Russia and I remember doing a study on Russia's alcohol consumption during my university studying back in 2012. Turned out "moderate" drinkers in Russia get really drunk only 2 times a week lol.
Tbh that does sound moderate, it's the average weekends drinker.
That is still a lot of booze
Lol, I remember living in Russia as a kid and in some bars, as long as you were tall enough to see over the bar, they would serve you
2 times a week? So... Saturday to Sunday?
@@hunterlacey5422 Not true. When we lived in USSR, one of my school friend was asked by local low enforcement to become an "undercover agent". He was buying alcohol in liquer stores, and if alcohol was sold to him, then the store clerk was immediately charged with the violation of the law. Sometimes only bottled beer was sold to young people. And beer was usually sold in same stores where carbonated non-alcoholic drinks were sold. In order to buy wine or hard liquers we had to ask some adult to buy it for us. And to be honest, soviet union did not have "bars" where the alcohol was poured in glasses. Exception was beer pubs. Even in restaurants customers preferred to buy entire bottles or bring their own.
Student in the UK: the tone of his voice when he said 23 shots a month makes me think I may have a problem
Your probably fine
You'll slowly lose interest in it. People drink a lot in their teens and early twenties because it's a new experience and has a social taboo. After college you focus more on work and your metabolism starts to decrease leading to less partying and drinking.
I know, right? 20 shots is a decent evening.
@Jamie Thunder probelm is the people I notice who drink a lot beyond their 30s are eastern europeans
Us Uk students are on a different level 🤙🏼😂
Me: You should never drink and drive
Russian: Yes, you might end up spilling and wasting a drink
Not accurate, the penalties for doing that in russia are pronounced
@@novydasb4660 "🤓"
Currently Russia have zero tolerance for driving a car after drinking. Permitted level of alcohol is zero. If police will find any amount of an alcohol in your blood, first time you will ban for driving for a year, second time (for a whole life) you will go to the prison.
@@mail1856 damn, life sentence for drunk driving - seems a bit extreme to me lol
@Давiд Мартiновiч But the driving accidents are brutal! Still though alcohol makes you more flexible in a drunk driving accident, so the chance of the drunk driver dying is low.
Russian traffic police: Did you drink vodka today?
Driver: No, sir.
Russian traffic police: *Want some?*
This is one of stereotype. Really more drivers were detained for drunk driving
@@helpblyat r/wooosh
@@helpblyat ye, but sounds funny)) (in Russian)
Average russian actually drinks about 7 liters of alcohol per year. Boris Yeltsin, who drinks 18 million liters per year is an obvious outlier and should've not been counted.
Alcoholism and smoking: accursed legacies of communism. And Putin doesn't defend the lives of the Russian people either: Carlsberg, British American Tobacco, Philip Morris, Japan Tobacco International, among other multinationals of death.
Nice Cookie Clicker reference
Is he still alive?
@@arx3516 No he died in 2007
@@arx3516 no, he died in 2007. Ironicaly, Gorbachev, the person who was overthrown by Yeltsin is still alive
“Russian men have the lowest life expectancy of all men in the world”
Watches Russian dash cam video: huh, I wonder why
@JAYTEA HOOTS Cite your sources. If you're right, then the video is greatly misleading the viewers. That's not very scientific.
@Kopliko Kot I doubt many men care enough to live up to your silly expectations just to die early.
No wonder why they all drive like drunkards
@@luisch1708 another huge problem is that u can just buy your license over there. And not just the license, but pretty much everything. Russia's always been one of the most corrupt countries. U can do absolutely everything there if you have either much money or the right contacts.
Akaiq
Russian: I have alcohol problem.
Me: Oh I'm sorry.
Russian: Yes, I have no alcohol, this is problem.
Haha
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Jokes
This is a big problem here in Macedonia, and any other Balkan nation.
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23 shots a month? That’s baby numbers, more like a day
He’s talking about pure alcohol like 100%
@@asifsiddique455 Isnt he talking about vodka? 40%
He made a mistake in the video, he mixed up alcohlic drinks with pure alcohol.
@@starfishjunky Its not clear in the video if he's talking about pure ethanol or not, I think. Still, even 23 shots of PURE alcohol per month is barely over the US's point where you become declared a heavy drinker. The recommended amount is no more than 12 shots of 40% liquor per week. The numbers in the video equal out to 13.25 drinks of 40% vodka a week if you assume he's talking about pure liquor, and only 5.3 shots if not.
The correct number of shots of vodka per month is 26*0.51/0.4/12/0.04=69 liters of 100% spirits * 51% / 40% abv / months in a year / shot size in cl
I'm from Russia, and yeah, this is a real problem. My father died from alcoholism, and almost every man in my family drinks a lot. There are always people on the streets drunk to the state when they cannot move straight forward.
I hope the situation will change in the nearest future
If the communists had closed the genocidal alcohol and tobacco industries, Russia would be a drug-free nation. Besides, which is worse: the exploitation of man by man, a slogan widely propagated by the communists, or profiting from the death of the people? Communism never again.
And Putin does not want the good of the Russian people: Carlsberg, Heineken, Budweiser, British American Tobacco, Philip Morris International, Japan Tobacco, among other multinationals of death.
Alcoholism and smoking, legacies of communism, are Russia's biggest problems. In fact, millions of Russians have already been killed by these drugs. But no one has the courage to close the genocidal alcohol and tobacco industries.
There must be mass protest against the genocidal alcohol and tobacco industries,which destroy a nation's future, in front of the Kremlin.
It's only becomes a problem when they run out of alcohol
Underrated
When Russia runs out of Vodka Berlin runs out of virgins.
Russia has cheap heroin, thanks to Afghanistan
Vodka can't run out. If there is no vodka people just die, cause there is also no food what so ever. In Russia alcohol is as necessary as basic supplies.
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"ten years ago in 2010"
why you gotta remind me that im an old geezer goddamn
Boomer
@@gamermapper ok zoomer
2010 is old?
If you think 2010 is old you're defo a kid in your late teens trying to sound cool
I mean, I was 21 in '10 and now I'm 31. 10 years might not seem like alot of time but at the same time it is. Alot can happen in a decade.
I quit drinking and lost 30lbs, sleep well, my skin has cleared up, I no longer sweat when I sleep or stink of alcohol and save around £300 per month. I don't worry or cringe at something embarrassing I said or have trouble remembering what I did the night before. Instead of alcohol making my day-to-day mundane routines entertaining or bearable, it's forced me to actually seek out interesting things to do.
Good job. Glad you recovered.
Cheers I'll drink to that
Congrats on kicking the habit! I hope you're still doing well.
@@mikkicarr5717 Thanks very much Mikki for your kind words. I am doing well.
Good job comrade. My dad had that problem and now he's beer free for about a year now.
Russia does not have an alcohol problem, alcohol has a russia problem
in Russia alcohol gets hangover
Alcohol doesn’t think Russia is a problem.
@Phronesis Philosophy Channel lmfaooo
@Phronesis Philosophy Channel LMAO
My Russian friends wouldn’t necessarily consider this a problem...
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Part of the problem is too many Russians not considering this a problem
@@rickenman9844 Certainly that's a misleading thought. If population wouldn't shrink to critical point we will witness Russia with low percentage of alcholism, my thoughts based on 1990-2000 born people's view.
My russian wife would consider this a problem from a woman viewpoint. But when the womans do not want a divorce maybe not a problem?
That friend of yours WAS your friend.
Russians: yeah, we drink a lot, but we also have some imperfections
Yea...you eat a lot of butterbrot...
No they snort it
Cheeki Breeki Bree! Racist profile picture
A NUUUUUUU _CHEEKI BREEKI_ I V *DAMKE*
(i found this quote on life of boris)
(sees "Can I get 1000 Subs?"'s comment)
Me: *_h o l d u p_*
@@eewag1 😂
Is It just me or is he talking with a "I can't believe this is true, I'm still impressed by this numbers" voice tone
Really??
He's talking in a "I'm a popular TH-cam channel saying bad things about Russia to an English audience that doesn't read" tone
"30% of every death"
We did all we could ma'am, sadly he has passed away. He was killed for 10% by a bullet, 20% lung cancer, 30% alcohol and 40% me forgetting to remove the scalpel before we closed him up...
Like, I know this is stupid, but if you have a lifetime of heavy drinking your organs are already damaged and under a lot of stress, so yes, you are less likely to survive the surgery to remove the bullet, or be able to reliably turn up for treatment for the lung cancer. And if you get black out drunk and aspirate, and get a chest infection, and die of sepsis because your family just thought you were hung over, was it the alcohol that killed you, or the chest infection, or the lack of appropriate hospitalisation, or the fact that when in hospital you were having the DTs and ripping out cannulas in confusion making it harder to get consistent iv antibiotic therapy.
Sorry for being pedantic, you probs only meant a joke.
Ha
1:10 "10 years ago in 2010"
damn.
I remember that I counted back years as if I was in 2000 since that’s what my parents do
:(
In Soviet Russia, freedom of speech exists too.
It never specified freedom AFTER the speech
Lol
You're everywhere, man
Just a typical Westerner comment.
Kindda same in West. Specially with leftist cancel culture and everyone getting offended.
I bet you're just another account of Avery the Cuban-American.
I'm russian and I don't drink at all. My father is alcoholic, sadly.
Your name doesn't look russian tho
I'm sorry about your dad. Your doing the right thing though. Teach your children the right way to live. That's the only thing we can do to make a better world.
I'll drink to that cheers
CK oh gosh.
@@Acampandoconfrikis yeah because he has to put his real name on yt right?
Hey im South African and i can say my grandpa lived a full life a happy full life of 47 years
rip
Why so staggered by 23 shots a month? I swear I know a few people who can do that over the weekend easy! 😂
Well glad you mentioned men in South Africa. I can attest it’s true. We don’t live passed 65 here and many people are heavy drinkers.
I’ve met my grandpa a couple weeks ago who lives in eastern Poland told me a shot of vodka is good for you. Guess my grandpa has higher average than Russia
Dont forget that 23 shots a month is only 50% of the alcohol so if they only drink spirts its 46
+some men dont drink at all
+young people and kids dont drink or drink less
Dont forget that its an average. On average every man in Russia downs 23 shots a month
It's an average that means that the people who drink more than average drink a fuck ton
The 26 litre figure you got was for PURE 100% ethanol content of hard liquor, beer, wine etc- not the volume of the products themselves. This means the average Russian man (assuming that 51% of that ethanol was hard liquor @ 40% abv) drinks around 20ish shots of alcohol per week (not per month) and much more beer on top of that 😮
^this
Did think that myself
Right. So the average number of shots isn't 1/day.
The current average is instead is 2.5/day.
I was going to mention something similar after questioning his first few “volume-per-year” results, because that isn’t really that much overall when considering the point of this video.
Thank you, was scared that I drink more than the average Russian
In Lithuania, almost all my friends and classmates I know (~17 yo) drink alcohol on almost every chance they can. I'm pretty sure at least 40% of them drink every week. Also, it's considerate not normal if you don't have alcohol served on a birthay party or a wedding. And the worst part is, if you are not a drinker, almost everyone will anoyingly make you try to drink.
That's weird,
Albertas Butrimas Hmmm interesting. I wonder if Latvia has more or less alchoholism than Lithuania.
@@TheSkult 🤷♂️. Migh be something similar, since it experienced the same problems with Russia.
Same here but Im american
@@JoeTheBroken lol. I thought it was cooler there..
When they say "liters of alcohol" they are talking about pure ethanol. Since most liquor is %40 then you need to multiply by 2 1/2. This means 37 1 liter bottles per year on average.
Most bottles, at least in America, come in 750ml. This means they're drinking more like 50 bottles a year, or one per week
@Nikola głodowski lol, you might've had a problem
@@Half_Centaur but we are not talking about USA, are we yank?
@@anthonybanderas9930 Yeah, except that the standard size all over the world is 750ml, just like in the US. It's only in the EU that they, confusingly, sometimes use 700ml. Take your hate for America and direct it elsewhere, homey.
@@Half_Centaur we are not talking about "the rest of the world" either. We are talking about Russia. And anyway last time I ve checked the standards, at least in some of the EU countries was 500 and 1000 so the yank is wrong again.
Russia doesn’t have an alcohol problem, alcohol has a Russian problem.
This made the drink come out my fucking nose
@@dead3043 So, Vodka? If so, it stings like hell in the nose, feel sorry for you.
Was going to type this exact comment. Well done sir
I'd like to know the 13 countries who drink more alcohol than Russia
*there are none.*
czechia
belarus czechia moldova etc
1 Russia
2 Russia
3 Russia
4 Russia
5 Russia
6 sorry can't find a 6th one
Oh yeah... Ireland
if dont stop drinking then you re only drunk once
The question is
Wasnt i drinking when i wrote this??......
What
@@guilherme1622 no
@@guilherme1622 yes
no
@@fedra5873 y u say my name fool?
Imagine alcoholism is just a symptom...probably from a feeling of purposelessness...
USSR collapsed and it was great stress for previous generation. In 90s your life savings suddenly means nothing cause country gone and ruble changed, crime rate boosted, high unemployment rate cause a lot of USSR's factories was sold, then few wars, terrorism, etc.
It's a death wish.
It seems to be a big issue since the soviet era, perhaps too much stress
@@netyimeni169 alcoholism was problem in ussr times as well. Andropov tried to forbid alcohol completely but this only led to death or blindness from self produced (accidently) metanol in place of etanol. This was terrible. Alcoholism in Russia even today is no joke.
Correction: Alcohol has problem with Russia
Poland while inventing vodka: I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you
@F.B.I. gotta love a good sabaton reference
Poland: REVENGE IS SWEET
@F.B.I. SPIRIT of Spartans... Heh. Get it?
I'm not sorry.
Uh no, what did it take for someone to say, "I want to drink that" in reference to a fucking potato?
i love that pannenkoek reference
I was in the USSR when they tried to introduce the anti-alcohol campaign, restricting access and cracking down on public drunkenness. But the prevailing attitude back then was simple: regardless of whether you drank more or less, your material situation was not going to improve...you just had to stay sober enough at work not to get sent home.
That’s so sad
since 2022 Russian male life expectancy has been taking a hit due to reasons unrelated to alcohol...
Teacher: "Describe Russian history in a nutshell. "
Me: **BUT THEN IT GETS WORSE!**
vj balan haha
gold
Absolutely. Example: the Soviet Union was established by Lenin, then there were lots o famines and after that Stalin caused worse famines and several purges. See where I’m going?
Brainwashed, study more non propaganda source's. Please
@Volbran не отрицай очевидные вещи
If I lived in a frozen wasteland I would drink heavily too.
Russia has many different climates
Not really, only 1/6 of Russia’s population live in Siberia and other cold regions of the country.
It’s basically just another stereotype, like saying that Americans love to eat fast food so much because they’re too dumb to cook anything for themselves.
@@youarealwayscorrect I mean...Is it that untrue?
@@youarealwayscorrect or assuming that everywhere in America is similar. I can't tell you how many times people not from here assume that my life in Maine is like someone in LA or NY, or even Ohio or Minnesota or Florida or Texas, etc... It's very different. Our country is huge and like a country of countries.
i live in Vorkuta so...yeah
RLL: "2020 has been a bizzarre year"... Man, we're not even halfway through...
Exactly
Denis DRC just you wait til 2022 is here
@@moonsugar6781 what's going to happen in 2022
Dangerous_Shark 2030 is when shit will hit the fan
Dangerous_Shark coronavirus 2: electric boogaloo
I’ve been to Belarus. Their grocery stores consist of 30% of their store with alcohol. In almost every aisle. Even selling in the cosmetics aisle.
They sell alcohol in cosmetics!!!???
I believe you have misinterpreted your data. When the researchers say liters of alcohol I think they mean pure ethanol alcohol. Not liters of a diluted alcoholic beverage. The average bottle of liquor in the US is 40% ethanol. So 26 pure liters is 65 liters of normal U.S. vodka.
I was most curious about this. It seems the average person would be drinking ~1 shot per day and maybe 1 other drink, which is wayy too low.
that cant be right. anyone drinking over 2 liters of voddy per day wont make it a week without liver failure.
@@sionowe2533 oh, they do, once you build up a tolerance it becomes really easy to have a relatively normal everyday life and yet put away 2 liters @ 40% daily, assuming you have the cash. At one point one will drink vodka as if it is water, half a liter to wake up, another half for lunch, yet another for dinner, and the final half as a supper/evening snack. Not my personal experience though, the highest i've reached is about 0.5 liters of 40% equivalent per day, lasting for months.
@mustpaike @sion i can speak from experience as i used to get through a 1L bottle of bacardi 151 every 2.5 days or so... that went on for a few years. even at that rate, liver failure usually takes decades, unless you have some other underlying condition or risk factor.
@@sionowe2533 his numbers are averages for a year, so it would be 65 liters per year meaning about 0.18 of a liter per day, not 2 entire liters a day, that would be 730 liters a year.0.18 liters is around 4 shots of vodka a day. Now that's an average of every Russian in the country, so some drink far more and others drink less.
This video was published on the day I quit drinking. 6 months of sobriety and counting!
Dont give up bro
@@balkanjoker8754 No way man. Feeling way too awesome and my bank account is a lot happier!
Hey, I'm proud of you. Good job.
@@Shannara360 thank you!
Thx to Islam, non of my relatives drink. And being drunk in saudi arabia is almost impossible unless you make your own ig, and if u don't get caught. You can't hate this law because it prohibits something unhealthy. Which I like
“23 SHOTS OF LIQUOR A MONTH?!!!!”
Me in college: ☹️
That doesn't seem like a lot but considering it's for a period of more than 50 years it now is
Me with my motocycle friends we last trip all over whe country and drink 7day marathon 0.7 litre vodka per capita every day and 6-8beers . I made like 200 shots of vodka or whatever
In the Balkan, we do 23 shots of liquor in 5 days.
@@bosnianseparatist1174 he must've miscalculated, that's a ridiculously low number, about 5.3 a week.
The odd glass of wine of an evening would top that.
One night out will easily account for most of the month alone.
Flued Goop That was only the spirits. He also said “In addition to a full litre of beer or wine”
I love how you use the pronoun "she" when referring to Russia. Warms heart.
She + it = shit (Russia)
@@blizzardstr Immo
neither! why is this a thing.
'The enormous amount of a liter of beer each month'
*Sweats nervously*
Lol I'm thinking real-life lore has no drinking buddies. A liter of beer is one good night. And there's been several "good night's" a week at my house..
@Litch it's enough for me to get a buzz! Not drunk, but buzzed. Depends on the proof
Americans: haha Russians drink so much booze.
Also Americans: give me more of those pills so I stop being sad.
Tbh II don't think pills are problem, more what kind of pills it is. Many amwericians are prescribed meds which they addicted to and when they run out of money they look into other means to seat their addiction
@Doug Bevins They're just drunk and mad and taking it out on Americans because RLL has an American accent.
Doug Bevins oh look, you made a strawman! Congratulations, soon you will learn to see every piece of dark humour as an immediate threat to your untouchable worldview. Btw how did you guess that the guy in question is russian? Please, calm your butthurt, you are being unconstructive here.
Николай Иванов damnnn nice sit down @bevins
@Doug Bevins I figure the point of his comment was to draw a parallel between each states choice of substance to abuse. While it's interesting to learn about nationwide alcoholism problems you sure get defensive when similar problems in your own infallible nation are brought to question. All of your rage due to what you assumed his point was, you assumed they only set out to defame The USA, then worked yourself into a fit of rage on your own stupid assumption. Grow up.
This should’ve been renamed: “Alcohol’s Russia Problem”.
LoL
Lol
It's funny because everyone knows that Russia is a political problem and alcohol is a chemical solution...
@@TheOneWh0Knocks alcohol is the chemical solution the people in Russia use to accept the political climate of Russia.
in soviet russia, you don't drink alcohol, alcohol drink you
“And most of this was just pure alcohol that had been diluted to feel like vodka…”
That’s LITERALLY what vodka is. Pure alcohol diluted with water.
Every time I read about Russia's alcohol troubles Little Big's "I'm OK" starts playing in my head.
uno, dos, quatro
maybe they were counting the vodka shots 🤣
I'm not alcoholic
@@rasol4eg e
“23 shots per month”
Me during summer: hey mom look, like an avarage russian in one night
The numbers he was using in liters were of "pure alcohol." The data was correct, but the calculations were all off. That's why everyone in the comments is laughing at the 23 shots number. That plus a liter of beer and wine is still only an average of one drink per day.... the CDC in the US allows for up to two drinks per day even in the US as standard consumption. I did the math, and the average Russian citizen (not sure if these numbers include children as well which would complicate the situation) but the average Russian citizen would have about a bottle of vodka per week or 2 shots per day, while men (based on his calculations) would have about 4 shots per day. Just average.
@@danielblack5196 that sounds way more right. Yeah, a little misleading, leading to a lot of people in the comments saying they could easily keep up with above average Russian alcohol consumers, which in 99% of cases they just simply couldn't. As a nordic person, coming from a long, long line of alcoholics, partly due to Russian vodka (historically, Northern Norwegians traded fur for vodka), I can kind of keep up, but I know how heavy a toll it takes on my body, even though I used to it. Alcohol is a terrible drug, and the world would be way better without it. Laughable that weed is illegal, yet alcohol is fine and even socially acceptable and encouraged
@@viktorbirkeland6520 four shots a day quite simply ain't shit
@@ConnorOfDestruction It's cool that you think that, but you're not impressing anybody. How much you can drink, largely depends on your genetics, which makes it even less impressive when you brag, since some of us are just born able to drink more than the rest.
Whatever the case, I hope you do keep your word and prove to us all how great you are at drinking, I'd say you would impress me when you've had 10 shots daily, every single day, for 15 years. Hope you don't back out mate, you seem to want to prove yourself!
@@viktorbirkeland6520 you can't seriously be claiming 4 shots is a remarkable amount of alcohol. That's the equivalent of four beers, and having been to your country plenty of you handle four drinks or more a day, easily.
Grow up pothead
5:05 haha lol, as a Russian, I can confirm that that policy didn`t help so much in big cities, i.e. in St. Petersburg there are alcohol shops which at night sell alcohol because legally they are `bars` - they just place a few chairs and table and open the alcohol when you buy it, but of course everyone takes it with them
Another thing is neighborhood mini-markets - they sell alcohol to those people who they know and trust, i.e. people who live in that house near the shop
I heard those little shops will be banned
Interesting, here in hermany we have designated shops that sell alcohol and potato chips etc at night
We call then späti (late shop pretty much) and they're usually open from 10pm to like 4am
I’ve visited st petersburg and the guy who owned a supermarket sold me whisky after 11pm because i visited his store 2 times before so my man trusted me.
@@YfelElve It's just like caravan shop or something which banned. I can't explain. So it's only 1 form of little shops.
He said that Russians drank an average of 23 shots a month. By my calculations it's actually a lot more.
26l=2600cl which is 7.12 cl of ethanol per day over 365 days. Given that your average spirit has 40% ABV thats 17.8cl of vodka which is 8.9 shots a day. He did say only half of alcohol consumption was spirits, but thats still 4.45 shots of vodka a day, or 133 shots a month.
He probably confused 26 liters of alcohol consumption with 26 liters of beverages containing alcohol.
Russian watching this: Oh shit, this is serious!
-*pours some vodka*
vodka*
@@RE-zl7sy водка
@@TB-if7px водяра
@@RE-zl7sy I am scared of ur name bruh
@@-Fodi водљлка
I'm from russia, and drinking is indeed a huge problem. Almost every family that I know have some kind of problems with alcohol. Drinking and driving is almost a normal thing. I am a teenager, and I can easily buy everything from beer to vodka. The worst thing is that government does nothing to deal with this problem, so it only gets worse. What's more scarier is that drinking is far not the biggest problem in our country...
(Sorry for any grammar mistakes, it's hard to translate from Russian to English ha-ha)
Random fact:
Bottled water expiration dates are for the bottle, not the water.
Makes sense
For Plastic bottles, yes
Lol
If you think about it, all water you drink is millions of years old. So technically when you drink from bottled water, you`re drinking million year old water. Of course just not in it`s liquid state.
"pure alcohol that has been diluted to feel like Vodka"
No, that's literally what Vodka is.
Do you know what distillation is...?
Vodka is a liquor that's been distilled to remove as much as possible aside from water and alcohol.
Taking pure ethanol and adding water doesn't make vodka, just like how taking pure ethanol and adding hops doesn't make beer.
There's a lot more to it than "HUR DUR ALCOHURL AND WURTER"
@@gitghetto yes, do you know how Vodka is produced? Distillation to almost pure ethanol and then adding water. Not "HUR DUR DISTILLATION"
@@volvoracingmv1346 Oh wow, I didn't realise they distilled it to pure ethanol before adding water :O
Sit back down in your armchair and go back to r/distillers 😂
@@gitghetto what's even your point? That's the difference between Vodka and Korn.
@@volvoracingmv1346 I literally made my point in my first comment ya dingus, I'm sorry you somehow missed it 😂
This video should be called “Russian car accident videos explained”
Me: Wow, someone should really moderate their intake
*giant bong rip*
Fuck yea, Russians should go to Amsterdam for a good time
Still much safer
u wot M8?! '
i can already see the "it's a solution" comments.....
right on that
Actually it's not a solution. Ethanol is not a salt.
literally above and below ur comment
It's a solvent, not a solution, completely different things.
@@Coastfog Wait, the solvent is the thing that the solute is dissolved in.
I'm pretty sure that water is the major component in most alcoholic drinks, so water is the solvent, ethanol would the solute unless you have greater than 50% alcohol content.
23 shots a month and then there's me who drinks 10 shots every Saturday, feelsbad
"Russia is a country that has a lot of problems..."
Me: "Can you plz not" _starts crying_
1991 :/
а хуле факты отрицать
F
**Launches thousand of nukes**
@@amvymavy tf this isnt related in any sense
This should be called
A day in the life of a Russian, explained.
Notice they use “her” as a way to refer to something non human they would never say “his”
Americans use Ibuprofen
Russians use водка
right
A day in a Russians life from 2003
I always wondered about this
Really? If yes why?
Bcz vodka
this video is shitty, if you want a good explanation from a Russian here it is. Vodka is a traditional Russian drink, meaning its tradition to drink it, just how Beer is for Germany. Russia has never been the #1 drinker, that title goes to S.Korea. Russias drinking like said in the video was worse near the collapse of the Soviet Union. Right now Russia's Alcohol consumption is on pair with other countries with their own tradition liquors. other places that like to booze, like germany or france. this is propaganda.
@@DefyDistrict south korea doesn't drink thar much.
@@DefyDistrict where exactly did you get that information?
When I see an alcohol statistic, where beer, wine and stong drinks are calculated together in liters, I can't help but think that person was drunk...
Real life lore: "the world is about to end"
Also Real Life Lore: "Btw, buy this new headset" :)))
Alex Nistor hey he’s gotta get money somehow
@@Nightshade0111, i know but, the contrast bro...
I don't watch this channel too often cuase of the sponsorships and doomist attitude
Well, a good equipment for listening Astronomia from inside the coffin is always appreciated.
nice
I'm confused about how Scotland and Ireland aren't on here. I drank the yearly amount before the end of January.
@Find The Light Damn. Spice is one of the really bad drugs, on par with cocaine and close to heroin I'd say. One of my former friends is (if he's still alive) completely addicted to it, one had a psychosis and spend years in the psych ward. Never gonna touch that stuff again. Seriously just smoke weed instead.
Just remember when they say a liter of alcohol they mean a liter of pure ethanol, not a liter of an alcoholic drink. To get one liter of ethanol you're drinking like 20 liters of beer.
John Morrell I need a week to reach that
@@EM-ou2dn is that... a good thing?
Blitz probably not, but I don’t do it every week though
Russians during lockdown: *stares aggressively at the alcoholed hand sanitizers*
Fun reminder that there was a supersonic bomber in Russia’s use that used a water and alcohol mix for coolant in the A/C. It was highly common for pilots to deliberately not use their A/C so they could siphon off the coolant and drink it, or barter it for goods and services from other pilots.
Russia: we are the best at drinking.
Slovakia: hold my Borovička.
and don't forget to drink Šariš right after every shot
Marianians: am i a joke to you?
Actually We Marianians can drink a maximum of 7.2 litres of alcohol yearly.
Czechia has more, while slovakia has less then russia (11.8, 11.5 and 11.4)
@@d0diXz a potom saz toho sarisa poriadne poseries.
"2020 has been a bizarre year". If that isn't a understatement, then I don't know what is...
Depends on your country I guess, Covid had a serious effect for like 6 Weeks and for one week I had to buy recycled toilet paper as the normal one was a bit harder to get. People work again, bars are open and school slowly start again and thats about it
@@CrazyBlueTv if you live in USA: "Good night."
If you live in Germany or any other country who reacted immediately: "You gonna live dozens years more!"
It’s basically a big USA themed year.... the Iran thing, being unprepared and ignorant about covid and now the whole race war thing that’s going on... and ofc Australia burning to the ground again (I know worse than before but it happens a lot)
Not for Mariania
@@dodoontherocks what is corvid?
Vladimir: hmmm this Islam is very interesting
Advisor: there’s a rule against drinking alcohol
Vladimir: what hell no we ain’t being Muslims then
Other advisor: I’m sure this won’t start a huge alcoholism problem in a few centuries
they most likely always consumed a lot of alcohol
@MR. X Not true
@@baron_xd4633 bro I can tell, your knowledge about islam comes from Facebook memes and islamophobic people. Please get some education first. God bless you
Their first big mistake: NOT accepting islam.
@@iqbal4625 Which version of Islam? You guys aren't as united as you think you are. :)
Plot twist: Russian men were androids running on ethanol
Alcoholism and smoking: accursed legacies of communism. And Putin doesn't defend the lives of the Russian people either: Carlsberg, British American Tobacco, Philip Morris, Japan Tobacco International, among other multinationals of death.
I had a drinking problem..would kill a pint of vodka regularly on the clock at the pizzeria I worked at until I finally quit. Proud to say I haven't had a drop of anything in about 3months or more and haven't felt better! 👍😎
Good job, man! That’s lit and keep it up! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Vodka is good for you
suka
@@georgiakirov3654 howw haha
U must be drunk to be saying that hwaha
Proud to give you your 100th thumbs up. Stay sober brother.
3:17 coffin dance
Lmao
The problem is that we don’t consider this to be the problem.
What is the problem?
@@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13 uhh, what real life lore is talking about
@@benmountaingangster If they don't consider that to be the problem, then what is it that they consider to be the problem?
@@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13 Russia’s alcohol problem did you watch the video?
@@benmountaingangster lol Dude, the OP said, "The problem is that we don't consider this to be the problem." Meaning, we (many Russians) don't consider alcohol abuse to be the problem. If it's not, what other problems exist?
The Russians began to drink less, yeah. According to the same statistics, we do not die from covid and generally prosper... Glory to the united party, the most honest party in the world.
Just be aware: A lot of those Figures about how much people drink are self estimated, meaning a researcher called, asked "How much do you drink a year?" and recorded the response. These figures are likely severely under estimated in some places.
Yeah, I did the math. 26 litres a year, averages out to 2 shots per day... not a ton. I used to drink 100 litres a year for several years... not a good time.
@@FrennisDaemon I mean. Seriously 2 shots a night won't even get you drunk
Ben's Election Forcasting A little buzz but long term thats not healthy
Yeah but 30% of deaths being attributable to alcohol is insane
I thought 26 was nothing, I was in a period of 7 months where I regularly drank until 3 L of beer per day, twice a week, lol
_USSR: Aight, I'm bouta head out._
_Alcohol: Aight, I'm bouta head in._
To understand your comment lots of foreigners discovered that Aight means alright and bouta means about to, this slang is so annoying but cool 😂
In America, you drink alcohol.
In Soviet Russia, ALCOHOL DRINK YOU!
@UCHgDiOaoYp3HVs66fJSc-Wg Russia never makes sense, blin.
@@gopnikaward3986 cykablyat
Connor Bracey f this meme
In USA You control alcohol.
In Soviet Russia ALCOHOL CONTROL YOU！
i like how this meant to be funny
About Irkutsk tragedy of December 2016: the lotion was not "mislabeled", it was used as a cheap yet powerful drink by the extremely poor due to the alcohol in it for a loong time before the tragedy. But for that particular batch they used Methanol instead of Ethanol on an illegal manufacturing facility, which caused mass poisoning and deaths.
“The only dangerous amount of alcohol is none” *throws fist*
Here's a fun fact: When Russia was celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany in WW2 they ran out of vodka.
Now that was a real tragedy...
That is actually when alcoholism problem begun.
The real tragedy to ww2
When you're Russian and don't drink at all.
Молодец
Cyka Blyat
That's good, you'll avoid alcoholism
And all the other problems he mentioned in the video
As a fellow russian I congratulate you
When you're Russian and you hate ALL alchohol
C.I.A. should open a chain of deep discount liquor stores in Russia.
That would destroy them quicker than anything.
@@markberryhill2715 not really
Somebody already did that, we have plenty of such chains here in Russia
I like how everyone tries to come up with, and copies each other’s “Russia jokes” lol
Welcome to the youtube comment section where most people lack orignality.
People always have copied jokes from eachother
@@owand5017 yep
This is the internet. You seriously expect originality?
@@Merkava_APS lol but i am not communist.
Alcohol is not the problem, its the solution my friend.
nonsense
Solution to your life
@@weepingprophet411 it's a pun...
CORRECT!
Torper Vazquez
Chemically, alcohol is indeed a solution.
Hey man, the numbers you were using in liters were of "pure alcohol." The data was correct, but your calculations were all off. That's why everyone in the comments was laughing at the 23 shots number. That plus a liter of beer and wine is still only an average of one drink per day.... the CDC in the US allows for up to two drinks per day even in the US as standard consumption. I did the math, and the average Russian citizen (not sure if these numbers include children as well which would complicate the situation) but the average Russian citizen would have about a bottle of vodka per week or 2 shots per day, while men (based on your calculations) would have about 4 shots per day. Just average. Love your videos usually, but come on.... this video was trash. Your entire video was based off of false calculations.
Bruh moment
i was like what? i drink more than that in a month with a single daily cocktail.
Yeah without calculating it myself it just seemed intuitively wrong - no idea how he didn't spot that :D
I assume that you checked the data from the WHO... but yeah I immediately thought that it’s such a pointless metric if they include beer.
Yeah the real calculation is 57.5 shots a month + the 1L of beer and wine
"We don't have a problem drinking!" - Russians
"We have a drinking problem"
“No alcohol sold passed 11pm”
Were you drunk when you wrote the graphics?
@@user-ph5bz3qn4i he means the typo in the graph
@@user-ph5bz3qn4i *facepalm*
* talks about devastating effects of Alcohol *
*"Anyways, you guys listen to music?"*
In today’s world declining population isn’t a big problem at least to other country.
harsh pal Yeah until you realize that it is because life is shit and nobody has time.
@@joshualittlewolfe8550 yeah, until your goverment decides to mass import bunch of third worlders to replace aging population. Then you get a bunch of migrants refusing to assimilate for decades
Declining population hugely accelerates a far worse problem. Ageing population.
All stereotypes are based on some speck of truth. Remember that.
I'm from Wisconsin, and I laughed at how shocked this guy was at 23 shots a month. That's a good afternoon here.
lol trust me you guys would not be able to keep up with a Russian when it comes to drinking
@@patryk2497 you need to visit Wisconsin.
@@ffwast I have a cabin in Wisconsin. I’m polish and drink with the locals and they can’t keep up lol
The numbers he was using in liters were of "pure alcohol." The data was correct, but the calculations were all off. That's why everyone in the comments is laughing at the 23 shots number. That plus a liter of beer and wine is still only an average of one drink per day.... the CDC in the US allows for up to two drinks per day even in the US as standard consumption. I did the math, and the average Russian citizen (not sure if these numbers include children as well which would complicate the situation) but the average Russian citizen would have about a bottle of vodka per week or 2 shots per day, while men (based on his calculations) would have about 4 shots per day. Just average.
Having visited Russia periodically over the past 28 years, my observation is that it is not as bad as it used to be.
@Jim Johans That might have an effect. I was seeing a woman 17 years ago whose ex husband was turned alcoholic after the war in Chechenia!
Maybe but since Putin decided to attack Ukraine, over consumption of alcohol is a huge problem among Russian soldiers.
"2020 has been a bizarre year" is probably the understatement of the year and we are not even half way through xD
So June is not halfway through? We, literally have already the half of the the year now, July, August, September and more months less are only missing. ^^
@@lemonbay9380 June has just started. Halfway through the year is the end of June.
@@saptsagn3697 Yea. 1 July to be exact.
All my life I was thinking that the Russians were the worst alcoholics of all times. When I came to England and saw how English drink, my point of view has changed radically on the alcoholic problems of the world.
When l took a trip to the UK. & Ireland l was shocked at how much public urination l saw, especially outside pubs at night, it was common to see several guys in a group urinating against a wall.