Cows Look Like Maps to Memes@lemmy.ml • edit-28 months agoA tsarrible idealemmy.worldimagemessage-square71fedilinkarrow-up1836file-text
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minus-squareunalivejoylinkfedilinkEnglish16•edit-28 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-square@lntl@lemmy.mllinkfedilink17•8 months agothe royal family owned all the vodka companies/manufacturing before the revolution. it’s always been a tool to fill state coffers
minus-square@PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.mllinkfedilink12•8 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.