VODKA - FRIEND AND FOE OF THE RUSSIANS | Full Documentary
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- What beer is to Germans, vodka is to Russians. The Russians consume around 60 liters of their national drink per capita per year - as cheap liquor, fine drink and home-distilled. But the high alcohol consumption has consequences: every year around 30,000 people in Russia die of alcohol poisoning. WELT reporter Christoph Wanner has taken a closer look at the production and sales of Vodka - a lucrative business in which not everything is right.
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IN ROMANIA OR HUNGARY VODKA(VOTCA) IT'S WATER. PALINCA/PALINKA IT IS THE BEST! TRY IT WHIT MICI/GULAȘ/ CIOLAN CU FASOLE/SARMALE 🤗🙏👍
Odd question: who does your voiceover for the English speaking narrator on this video? His voice is so familiar!
Vodka is a friend of the government, which collects taxes from the genocidal alcohol industries, and an enemy of the people, who are killed by this assassin.
@@kildarealeksen4140 - more likely killed by the cheaper counterfeit stuff than the proper tax-paid product .
Ksjsh
Selling vodka without food is prohibited....
Bar waiter: "U can't buy vodka without food"
Customer: "okay, give me a boiled egg with 12 bottles of vodka".. 😆😆
Lol 😂😂😂😂😂
VODKA - FRIEND AND FOE OF THE RUSSIANS | Full Documentary 1028am 17.8.23 if you are of the heimat you can use the vernacular matt, then?
Alcohol ruined my life , nothing worse than selling something legal to someone with a addictive personality. Glad im no longer a alcoholic, im a alcoholic but the sober type.
Well done. It could be any one of us.
Feel good for you.
I am just lucky because of my culture. Even eating flesh is not considered good here.
Happy to hear that, you can also help so many people, just by telling your story and staying strong!
Those fks don't give. Fk! It is there bread and butter at the cost of typical people's misery see? Been like that forever.......!
Congratulations!!! I’ve got 17 years sobriety but I always remember; those 17years could all end tomorrow.
They play classic music to keep the vodka calm during the process. After they release it . It goes wild 😛
😂😂 dude, this got me. I cracked up
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wonderful how the brewer calls his finger and tongue a laboratory and his hobby is making people smell something that will most likely make them faint, great guy
Russian humor not for the faint of heart. " If he dies, he dies"
Because it is Russia - the country of shіt
@@jeaninemuller123 lmaaoo so true, you cant be too sensitive with russians
Lol... you're kinda right but it's also all in good fun. Hopefully they're not picking the 80 year old man out of the crowd to do that too. While sometimes jokes obviously go too far sometimes, i think the world has definitely gone too far the other way with how sensitive people are these days.
Either way, Russia definitely a little different than the US in terms of legality and business lol
Depressing and sad; makes me thank God I don’t drink anymore. God help the alcoholics.
amen
Vodka killed my kid brother.
So glad I dont drink
I was high and watched on mute though it was about Russian bottled water
God does not exist
Love it when the crew is allowed back stage " no vodka or champagne to be seen" apart from in the mirror at 44:05 Brilliant.
You and me both, I have not had a single drink for over thirty years, having done some serious hard-drinking prior to quitting all alcohol and I also gave up smoking over twenty years ago, and I have a great life without these two things,
@@seandobson499who are you talking to dude, you sound like a drunk talking nonsense to nobody
Those weren't alcohol bottles in the mirror... also, the objects reflected in the mirror are immediately to the left of the mirror on the table against the back wall.
At first, I agreed with your comment but the parallax was way too shallow and I figured the object had to be somewhere in the actual camera frame.
That drunk parking cop is my spirit guide.
You can see why the Russians aren`t all that successful, trying to drown their sorrows and relieve their boredoms.
That state owned company has a very strange sense of humour.
When I was a kid everyones Dad drank beer . It was ubiquitous . Now you meet people who never drink . Thank Heavens . There is a lot less violence and road deaths .
Beer is obviously nothing like vodka, so what is your point.
@@davidlynch9049 It is on your head
@@davidlynch9049 beer is nothing like vodka in the sense that they are both drinks that contain an identical chemical with well documented and understood negative effects on the human body both short and long term? 😂
I think you meant to say "spinach is nothing like vodka, so what is your point?" 😆
Poor people lead astray by a vampiric business model . Everyone looks at alcohol as a reward when its a noose around their necks . My culture , Acadian/ Cajun , has had the same attitude about beer . We treated beer like a rite of passage to adulthood . If you were old enough to drink you were a man . Thankfully , after centuries of disfunction we are seeing a turn away from daily drinking . Consequently its a lot easier for people to refuse alcohol now than ever before . The cultural peer pressure is not so strong .
Don't get me wrong ...we still have a problem . We have drive through daiquiri sales here . Madness . But , over all alcohholism is down and drinking is a weekend activity for most . And a lot of people pretty much outgrow the party scene by age 30 .
Well articulated. When I drank 34 years ago I ordered Dixie beer to california. When I went to LA on business or to be in weddings I'd been sober for a bit.....loved the food and people didn't miss a moment.
@@griffhenshaw5631 Thank you , I aim for clarity .Thanks , also , for the praise our local cuisine . Its the prevailing , enduring facet of our dying culture . The world is indeed shrinking .
The Russian vodka bar has awesome looking food and a hockey game on the television. As a Canadian, I would be quite comfortable there !!
no bro you wont .the environment is a bit dark and weird in russia and post soviet countries' bars.
everyday, there are cyka blyat moments in russia
You should emigrate then. I bet you'd love it over there. Please. Go ahead and move.
@@GoatZilla
He just said he likes the bar 😂
@@AustraliaisupsidedownYes he should move to Russia so he can enjoy the bar.
Thank God I’ve never had a sip of alcohol in my life, nor a whiff of a cigarette. Not growing up around both, on a massive societal scale, is a blessing.
How boring.
Shut up morman
You must be a blast at party's...
I think your right, you dont need it
@@derekarnold3665 really?
Alcohol can remove boredom for just sometime, isn't it?
More foe than friend. A Russian saying says, 100 words are no conversation, but 100 grams of Vodka ( Stock gram) are something for the soul.
I love old style Soviet vodka factory ! ! !where nearly all machines and fixtures are "rusty" ordinary steel ! ! !vodka with "iron" supplement.
Probably the only healthy thing about the vodka
Don't forget the almighty plastic foil.
lets drink so that we remain healthy, what an understatement.
What a stupid statement that was; I laughed also! Alcohol causes up to 200 diseases; it is a neurotoxin and anyone who likes their brain should never drink a drop of it! Sober since 6/26/1981; 41+ years, life is way better without getting stupid!! No one gets smarter from drinking alcohol! Alcohol +Brain Damage (caused by alcohol)=>Alcoholism. Do not drink and have a better chance at doing something with your life.
If you die at 23 due to your liver exploding, other diseases won't even get a chance to kill you.
Hahaha I laughed hard at that sentence.
That could have been the name of the drinkumentary!
Bro...they make a 100ml bottle of vodka shaped like a drinking glass to cure a hangovers? I think 100ml would give me a hangover!
It wouldn’t, actually, along with proper snack like caviar, salted tomatoes/cucumbers/sauerkraut or tomato juice.
You will be surprised, but Germany today is higher than Russia in alcohol consumption. Czech, Latvia, Lithuania, France, Germany is alcohol leaders today
Everytime vodka is said you take a shot.
That's an awful drinking game for this documentary! I don't think anyone would be left standing 🥃🙂🤢🤮
Polacy pozdrawiają braci Rosjan 👍🇵🇱🇷🇺 Lepsza wodka niz narkotyki!
Vodka is a drug.
I’m Drunk Already 😵 🥴😂
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this should warn every country on earth about importing vodka from Russia
when it comes to consuming Vodka ...Eastern Folks are in a league of their own
Lmao love that they " seal the pipes " by putting plastic wrap over the couplings lmao
You could tell if someone ripped them off. It's a marker, not a weld.
Rest of the world - don't drink it's bad for your health.
Russia - let's drink so we stay healthy . 😁
And both camps are wrong.
@@AA-uf3bl ..and right
@@danfield6030 and center
That is true! I know some Russians!
Duma said let’s get wealthy. Drink up peasant.
So that's why they had to steal all Ukranian wheat, to feed their vodka addiction.
Just imagine living under Stalin totalitarianism in USSR, then through the communist years, the through the corruption of the 90s that left millions starving, not forgetting Putin's Russia. Vodka is not a beverage, but a means of survival and coping with life.
In Russia, life lives you.
Unbelievably idiotic comment. Stop Drinking vodka from the morning.
The genocidal alcohol and tobacco industries, which kill 1 million Russians a year, were the accursed legacies of communism for Russia. Those to blame for the destruction of Russia are: the tsars, the communists, Yeltsyn and Putin (Carlsberg, Heineken, Budweiser, British American Tobacco, Philip Morris International, Japan Tobacco International, among other multinationals of death).
I once drank the home-made. It hits insanely, That was when I quit drinking
You made a wise choice! Alcohol is poisonous. It is a neurotoxin at any level causing brain damage. I quit on 6/26/1981; 41+ years ago. I wish I had never drank any alcohol.
I was always led to believe that Vodka was made from potatoes, that is what we are told in Australia, & it makes more sense that it's made out of wheat.
It can be made from either, however the wheat vodka makes up almost all proper brands, the potato vodka is usually low-quality and homemade in eastern europe.
VODKA - FRIEND AND FOE OF THE RUSSIANS | Full Documentary 1023am 17.8.23 trouble with Russian bars and vodka culture is that you cant sit and nurse a pint of vodka without eyebrows being raised whereas in UK you can sit and nurse a pint and have a chat... socializing, I think they call it. maybe a couple of vodkas then a lager or ten. maybe that works. on vodka you would be found fast sleep in snow or worse!!!! good old peter and his vodka. bets all those the mind altering substances... i am sure he would have buggered off if you had have been his boss.
Most vodka is made from wheat or other grains but there are potato vodkas. From my experience Poland is most well known for making potato vodka.
@@TheSRC88 Comments on ‘VODKA - FRIEND AND FOE OF THE RUSSIANS | Full Documentary’ 2039pm 3.9.23 and the irish had their Poitín (pronounced "puh - cheen" which must be similar ins cope and was banned for many many years, for some reason. probably what the troubles were all about - old ma's recipes being handed on a plate to the ne'er do wells of bi gob and corp street tech... same with Manchester and the holts and Boddingtons wars. it takes it's toll if you haven't "supported" the correct brewery... and you have idiots just wading in thinking they know best and destroying all that went before... vodka? ummm, maybe. whisky? on occasion. hip flask culture hasn't dimmed, i see... i have seen it flourishing on the football terraces and the clog dancing street fest.....
Can be made from either rye, wheat or potatoes. Chopin is a good example. It's a premium polish vodka brand and makes vodka based on all of these three main ingredients
Been sober 16 years . Alcohol nearly took my life
Good job 34 here and the bottle does not call me but there is respect for it. Don't let down your guard.
Congratulations!!! 17 years here. I always keep in mind, though, that it all could end tomorrow
@@carlosbond5062 very wise but 17 is great
@@carlosbond5062one day at a time, you got this! Congrats on 17 years
You have to know how to drink. Best regards from Serbia. Been drinking alcohol from 1994. And its alrgiht in 2024. ;)
So you telling me that here in the states no one drink? How about all the gas stations full of beer and vine. Store shelves are full of that crap too and the bars are on every corner.
6:02 Only in Russia would they have new employees and visitors stick their heads into fermentation tanks and go unconscious while the company thinks it is funny. Only in Russia!
Vietnam, an ally of the former USSR, also makes vodka with brands such as Hanoi Vodka, Vodka Men's.
ah i see, so we can concluded why Nazy and US army fucked up at stalingard and nam.
Vodka Cá Sấu nữa :)))
And don't forget these bottles with snake in it
@@eugenez5408 with snakes we use the traditional rice alcohol.
@@ledinhdong7743 😂😻🤣❤️Surprise!!!
I wonder what would happen if they played death metal during filtering.... I smell a new product!
you get aquavit then.
Russians belorusians are not on first place with alcohol .
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Wow. 60 Liters/annually. 1L = approx 32 ounces. 32 Ounces x 60 Bottles Vodka = 1920 ounces Vodka annually. 1920 Ounces/365 days in year = 5.25 ounces Vodka daily. Seventy percent taxation to government. Wow. For Russia it pays (government coffers), to keep taxpayers drunk.
EXCELLENT WORK SOBER RUSSIA👍👍
At 44:11. Commentator say "Empty bottles of Champagne or Vodka are no where to be seen".
Except in the mirror top right corner.... ;-)
Less than 3 euro's for a bottle of vodka, holy moly.
That same bottle is probably sold in the UK for 10 quid, more than 3.5 times the price.
But their wages are so much lower. The minimum wage for a whole month is 236 U.S. dollars
And remember that it's already 70% tax. Can you imagine what went on in Russia when there was no tax?
@@Paul__Allen yes, but 3$ its still cheap even for Russia. I think it would be better if they make it more expensive.
I quit drinking in 1989......alcahol is a powerful foe
Watching this makes my liver hurt.
That alcohol squad is delusional if they think counterfeit alcohol is the main culprit stealing from taxpayers! I literally busted out laughing when he said this.
they mixed it with sugar. the man tastes it. "yes it is sweet". My god the genius
Very interesting and very good video. I like that they play classical music to the water, it's a secret....... 🤫
You know right ?! I thought it was a quintessential !!!!
Thank you I appreciate this behind the scenes look. As well as being able to get an idea of how it affects people's interactions with each other. Seeing that the grain has to sprout is something I'd never been aware of. Although I rarely drink hard liquor now and never really did in my life, I have been able to appreciate the differences in vodkas sold here in America. Being of Mexican descent I haven't really had a lot of experiences with tequila or mezcal other than to say I prefer mezcal. I'm 64 when I was in my mid to late teens I remember drinking a good part of a bottle of mescall and I felt great!!! When I was dropped off in front of my house at about 3:00 4:00 in the morning I kept wondering why when I was walking so straight the ground would tilt to the left and to the right. Later on when I gotten out of the army I remember trying stolichnaya for the first time. I was able to drink a good part of that bottle and felt great!! No ground tilting no vomiting no nothing. I figured it must not have been that bad of a vodka. All in all I see what other people are making jabs at but I appreciate the whole thing in itself.
you my friend are actually very rare! it sounds like you have a rare genetic mutation called the COMT mutation, around 8% of the world has it, and what happens is alcohol essentially floods your dopamine receptors, causing you to feel REALLY good, REALLY fast, and you feel better & better as you drink more.
You gotta love that glass bottle on glass bottle clicking sound 😀
Alcohol is one of the few substances that can make you lose consciousness and you’re still walking around - unconscious.
As a Mexican I’m wondering what the Mexican flag 🇲🇽 was doing in that concert
It’s to indicate they have white powder
@@t.4999 😂😂
@@whysoserious7553 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
This vodka is distilled 5 times and is made with pure mountain creek water- no glycerine or sugar, then proceeded to make a cocktail and pour in sugar water- lol
This leader of the Youth Organization Sober Russia is badass and knows he's facts at the same time! Love it! Russia needs more of these people!
They will soon mysteriously disappear or be poisoned.
They have to seal the pipes so the Russian workers won't steal it...Why am I not surprised. 😆
"I'll take this mash to lab for testing"..
*tastes it with his mouth*..
"Alright everything's good"
The cheapest vodka where I live is about 20€. It's hell of expensive 😩
wtf where are you from ?
$40 here Australia
Here in UAE less than 5 dollar..
Arkansas $2
@@jaeboogie2786 for 1 litre?
Wouldn't vodka be a better way to clean the bottles than water given that it's a solvent?
They said they wash the bottles to get rid of impurities that could affect the taste of the vodka.
Вообще то сейчас на данный момент Россия не самая пьющая страна в мире. Это статистика. В Германии, Прибалтике пьют гораздо больше. Посмотрите статистику. Процентов двадцать вообще не пьют. Лично я водку вообще не пью.
The song V Pitere Pit by Leningrad is not critical of society and alcohol habits. It is about tourism and promotes St Petersburg.
I really needed this thank you
I live in Las Vegas wich is one of a few places in the US where alcohol is sold 24/7/365... There is no curfew, last calls or Sunday afternoon sales and no chaining the doors shut at 7-11...
Their average life span is 15 years less than those in the West. Yes, Vodka is wonderful.
I achieved sobriety of 14 years yesterday. It was going to kill me if I didn't quit!
Why would you poison your own people ?
Hmm, the fellow who suggests blintzes and caviar to accentuate the experience of vodka is correct, to an extent. Vodka is supposed to be color- and tasteless, you do need something solid in your stomach. But cheap vodka is like drinking sink cleanser.
And your average Russian calls it a waste to dilute it in any way.
13:05 I have tried many different vodkas over my seventy years - Pure Dew (Чистые росы) is the best organic vodka in the world. Unfortunately, due to sanctions, they don’t sell it here.
The reanimator!!!!! What a hoot. JUST the thing I have often needed. And those back stage babes. JUST the cure for a boring evening! I could see myself enjoying spending an hour or two back there, drunk OR sober.
No wonder alchoholism is a problem.
Никакой западной лжи и пропаганды не существует! 🤣🤣🤣
When you live in a country with no hope then you understand how it happens sadly
You mean the US?
Chicken- egg. What came first? Alcohol is a depressant. You will eventually get DEPRESSED. Folks tend to get violent as well. russian males have a hard time holding a job once they start drinking methanol or huffing rocket fuel. Once they get conscripted, they go into alcohol withdrawals, so they will drink ANY kind of alcoholic beverage, poisoned on not. Some go blind. Some just hang themselves. 400 years of institutional alcoholism has created a mind numbing amount of servile behavior in russia, not to mention brain damage, mental retardation and fetal alcohol syndrome. Little surprise the russian birth rate is dropping precipitously.
This video makes it all wine and roses.
33:32 This montage is how I image all of Russia really is
Blyat, I am Russian and did not even knew about it...🤣😂
I went to Russia in the early eighties and there were drunks just laying in the streets.
Not in America or anywhere else in the world......just in russia😇
I so drunks in Europe,same laying in parks and streets
@@fesma94 only in north korea there are no drunks in the streets.....
Profiting off poor alcoholics! I was once an alcoholic drinking two litres of vodka every day and it stole everything from me! And unfortunately you don’t know that you’re an alcoholic until the first time you get drunk! Px
One tupolev's AC system did use vodka, pilots and technician's have been drinking and trading this booze after the flights
I'm in a burning urge to get some vodka even though I don't drink.
Or is it just because I'm high 🤔🤔🤔
Russians have a word for drinking and not stopping for three months.
I can't remember. I was saying we have a word for drinking too much - its the word bender, as in I went out for a bender at the weekend.
My lovely Russian girl friend said yes we have lots of words for drinking too much.
She said the Russian vocabulary is littered with drinking words.
Запой
In the police footage, the abbreviation on the side of the police van is ‘СОБР’, pronounced ‘sob(e)r’. I suppose it doesn’t mean that in Russian.
it's an abbreviation for Специальный отряд быстрого реагирования (special police force)
Drinking is good for you.
Personally, here in Philadelphia, PA -- USA -- I drink ±400 ml of whiskey per day, every day. That is 146 liters per year. 60 liters don't seem crazy to me. It is binge drinking and cheap booze. Cheap booze is the No. 1 problem. I drink only Canadian Whiskey of good scotch.
Ugh.....they remove all the good minerals from the water. The same thing they do to ruin all the water that is bottled and sold here in the USA.
The Irish: get drunk and get in a fight
The Russians: get drunk and go to war
stick your head in the fermentation tank??! I hope that plant manager is joking. That is dangerous and painful. Not at all like holding your breath. I did that with a 5 gal homebrew once and for a second I thought I must have been poisoned by some toxic gas, even though I knew what CO2 did
The company’s idea of humor…making them unconscious-pretty fuckin funny
I served in Vietnam, 69/70. At that time, I believed our Command structure was letting us down, that belief was far from the truth. Command bent over backwards in their efforts, but , the White House was in charge. Most of the higher ranks had suffered throgh WW2, and the Korean conflict. They knew what damage bad Leadership could cause. They- tried to protect the lower ranks. No US serviceman was ever mistreated, not respected as the present Russ forces are now. No General, Admiral, Colonel etc etc should ever forget that without subordinate support, they are useless.
Do you any of you guys know the name of the vodka bar at min 29:23? Sounds like Riadom but I cant quite catch it.
Have a great day all.
The guy said he asks people to stick their head in carbon dioxide as a joke wtf
I had to quit drinking but to this day i crave it every day. I feel for the ones still stuck.
How long are you dry?
@@mack8488 over a year
Wow keep keeping on and it will disappear I hope for u. My desire 0....I think as appetizing as Turpentine. Good luck.
Just have an occasional drink, that way you can appreciate it, not abuse it.
@@mack8488 almost a year
HAHA loved when you said RAIDING SQUAD and 2 SECONDS LATER YOU SAY THE ACTIVISTS
What was the name of that russian peter e pete drinking song in the video towards the last 15 min? I didnt catch it. Wanna check that out...
I think it has to do with weather too, when you have 6+ months of snow and darkness during the year, you get more depressed, therefore drinking "helps"
@1:06 That old man shot huge glass of Vodka like a milk, finally smash the glass and walk away. 😂 😂
Saw vodka & clicked on it instantly I use to drink nikoli vodka back in the day
when the caviar needs to unleash vodka's "TASTE", then there IS A HUGE problem in minds......
I LOVE RUSSIAN HUMOUR ! Lovely Russia.😊
Here in the Brazil is beer and caipirinha( 51).
Just legalise weed, compared to alcohol it produces way less problems for both health and society.
...Legal Poison...
Yes but then it won’t be a White Russian
“Drunk and stupid” in not just a cliche’ !
I grew up in communist and post-communist Bulgaria. Everyone around me loved vodka and rakia (much stronger than vodka). But not me. Never liked alcohol and never will. Doctors say that often alcoholics have genes that make them more susceptible to addictions. I guess the same is true for the other extreme. People like me.
The United Drunken States of Soviet. In short, UDSS.
When russians had too much vodka, they start to drink beer to get sober.
2:55 the best vodka is Чистые Росы (Pure dewdrops). It’s really worth trying, especially with pickled cucumber (no vinegar whatsoever! Just salted, kind of brined, I guess polish brothers have it in their stores), and a piece of bread accompanied by a slice of salo (salted bacon). Good luck and enjoy your trip to the magnificent vodka experience.
Sounds good
Interesting documentary.