Cows Look Like Maps@sh.itjust.works to Memes · edit-211 months agoA tsarrible idealemmy.worldimagemessage-square71fedilinkarrow-up1847arrow-down119file-textcross-posted to: behindthebastards
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minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·edit-211 months agoWasn’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?
minus-squarelntllinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·11 months agothe royal family owned all the vodka companies/manufacturing before the revolution. it’s always been a tool to fill state coffers
minus-squarePolandIsAStateOfMindlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down5·11 months agoTsar Nicholas ordered prohibition in 1914. RSFSR retained it after revolution until it was abolished in 1925.
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?
the royal family owned all the vodka companies/manufacturing before the revolution. it’s always been a tool to fill state coffers
Tsar Nicholas ordered prohibition in 1914. RSFSR retained it after revolution until it was abolished in 1925.