A Vodka filled AK47, Missiles filled with Vodka. I NEED THESE THINGS!
[President] Medvedev in June told Health Minister Tatyana Golikova that Russia’s alcohol consumption is “colossal” and asked the government by today to find ways to fight excessive drinking and bootlegged vodka production.
Whenever your country’s leader describes a problem as colossal you know it might be something you’d want to fix. But lets be honest for a second, the rest of the world (and by this I mean a random sampling of a few people I’m friends with) LOVE the fact Russians drink copious amounts of vodka. Just how much Vodka does the average Russian drink? Glad you asked
Alcohol consumption in Russia should fall to as low as 5 liters per person a year by 2020 from about 18 liters now, according to a plan published on the Alcohol Market Regulation Federal Service’s Web site today. The World Health Organization estimates 8 liters as an “accepted volume of consumption,” according to the service.
EIGHTEEN LITERS!? Even in college I don’t think I approached that number. Doing some quick math, that’s 24 750mL bottles of Popov Vodka in a year, or 1 entire bottle per person about once every two weeks. That’s mind boggling when you think about that figure as being an average for it’s citizens. There are probably people who will drink a 750 bottle once a week.
I sincerely hope this doesn’t happen. For one, we probably won the Cold War based on an ill-advised decision made after a marathon drinking session at the Kremlin. We’d also need to find a new villain for movies; the cagey yet alcoholic Russian just wouldn’t resonate with us in a world where Russian’s drank vodka at an “accepted volume”.
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