• unalivejoy@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Wasn’t it Lenin who banned vodka, then Stalin started a state run vodka company after he took over? Or did Lenin just reinforce the ban?

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      the royal family owned all the vodka companies/manufacturing before the revolution. it’s always been a tool to fill state coffers

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      Tsar Nicholas ordered prohibition in 1914. RSFSR retained it after revolution until it was abolished in 1925.