Baron, you seem not to have been to Russia
you are wasting time patricipating in this discussion, this vodka stereotype is irrelevant, .
It was not, but for about 15-20 years it is irrelevant, it is nothing but a part of Western propaganda
I am old enough, I was a teenager in last years in USSR, I remember drunk people lying here and there in the street then.
All these alcoholics died off in 90s, now people don't have time to drink. You will not see a single drunk person in the street now. I saw about 10 times more homeless people lying in the streets of Germany or Italy than in Russia. Probably it is due to the climate, but in Russia now you will not see homeless people, and now there are no drunk people.
About 40% of Russians don't drink alcohol at all, more than 50% drink a little from time to time.
There are no ugly scenes of drunk mobs like in cities of the UK in weekends.
As well
in the US more than 100 000 people die yearly due to drugs overdose, mostly opioids, as consequence of life getting harder and harder every year. And it is only beginning. The US is going to face much worse a catastrophe which we faced in 90s.
Russia has adapted to hardships and is going up. The West is disadapted to growing hardships, alcoholism and drugs overdoses are growing, the West is going down.
As for Ukraine, it is depopulating fast. Not only due to alcohol, but generally due to lack of perspectives, no future.
Going to the army and to the war becomes an attractive job in Ukraine, if you don't emigeate or work abroad.
The funniest thing in all this is a Ukrainian Esay, talking here about backward savage Russia, when his compatriots en masse have to decide either to work as seasonal workers in Poland swine farms or move to successful Russia, whose GDP per capita is 3 times higher than one of Ukraine
to talk yourself into believing in your superiority when you are dying is a Ukrainian way of suicide
