Considering that the average Russian probably drinks AT LEAST a pint of vodka a day, it's not a surprise that Russians wouldn't consider beer an alcoholic drink.
@@remaguire how could they not? WWI, then the Civil War then all the purges from Stalin, then WWII. I guess they caught a bit of a break when Khruchev and Breznev was is power but the collapse of the Union was poorly handled and now Russia is back in the shitter again.
Tell me about it some get there WATER from a WELL in some VILLAGES and don't even have ELECTRICITY and when they invaded UKRAINE the SOLDIERS stole TAPS/FAUCETS & TOILETS from UKRAINIAN HOMES and sending them back to RUSSIA .And they actually thought WATER came out the wall thats the gods honest truth they didn't know anything about plumbing and one RUSSIA WRITER once said if i fell asleep now and woke up in another 100 years what would i expect RUSSIA to be like?? And he said the exact same as it is today a bunch of ALCOHOLIC THIEVES 😂
USA has age restrictions. Alcohol prices aren’t as cheap. Even our commercials can’t show people actually drinking the product. Yet alcohol is a problem in the USA.
This was made in 2003. Would be interesting to see if it still holds today. I spend about 6 months out of every year living/working in Russia. I don't know the stats, but on the surface the Russians didn't appear like they were hitting it hard (not in my circles, anyway). I mean, every now and then I came across someone who made/drank their own cha-cha. But from my observations, even those selling cha-cha from the trunk of their cars aren't doing too well these days.
Alcohol and tobacco are legacies of communism. And Putin does not defend the life of the Russian people: Carlsberg, Heineken, Budweiser, British American Tobacco, Philip Morris International, Japan Tobacco International.
It isn't even close to the epidemic levels that peaked in the 1990s- early 2000s. Now, Finland took the new title for drunkards, but hasn't seen the same levels of mortality, because the Finns binge drink a lot, but don't drink hard daily the way the Russians were/are infamous for.
Alcohol is such a yucky drug: Tastes bitter like shit, has heavy secondary effects (nausea, increased urination, heartburn, etc.), it has a horrible crash (i.e. hangover), its effects last too little, it's weak especially compared to drugs with the same mechanism (e.g. benzos), it's more expensive than drugs with the same mechanism (e.g. benzos), it gives you alcohol breath, among many others.
A differance of drinking a nice cold beer on a hot summers day or sharing a brewsky with friends for enjoyment and drinking just to get drunk! An alkoholic is an alkoholic no matter what they drink.
How can anyone still defend the stance that weed is worse than booze …. I bet if we lived in a society where weed was legal and booze illegal …. The world would be a better happier, friendlier place
' real men ' socializing. The stigma of admitting your an alcoholic adds to the excuses NOT to seek help . Dying a premature death is not off putting to an alcoholics way of life . Most of them long for death as they've not been able to figure a way out of their dilemma. Their behavior over a multitude of drunk episodes leaves them with the awakened state of remorse , guilt , regret and revenge especially when all of these feelings go unanswered hence the need for another drink to FORGET their past . Their future lives now revolve around alcohol and everyone knows it accept the alcoholic. The suffering alcoholic has one aim and that is oblivion. In oblivion you forget the past and don't create a future your terrified of . But again he wakes up and his one desire is another drink and another until he either seeks help beyond himself or commits suicide. There is a way out . I know .
I'm from Australia - why is everyone in Russia drinking out of the bottle the way they are, e.g. the nozzle of bottle goes into entirety of the mouth, allowing flowback? It's truly a disgusting thing to watch..
I once tried champagne to see what the hype was all about, had to spit it out, tasted like vinegar. Then I sipped the beer, so bitter, I guess you have to have the taste buds for it.
@@deidradahl2802 you all do realize it has nothing to do with taste, it's a psychological issue, it's your brain chemicals, some people get a satisfying hit of dopamine just reading a book or watching a movie while some people like alcoholics need more stimulation just to reach the same level of reward as the person watching a movie or reading.
@@TitanGhostFilms-- Well I never, this is surprising information., I always thought alcohol had to do with taste. Thanks for the info, I have to do some research on it.
I hardly think drinking a beer outside on a nice day counts as alcoholism. the real alcoholics don't leave their homes and can't hold down jobs or relationships
Do some research and think again. Russia is not in the first place in alcohol consumption per capita. And it’s very funny how they put it in this video regarding beer… Germany, Ireland, Czech Republic are beer nations, not Russia 😂
and for those that do not drink, there is denialism of what is going on around them - either from fear of reprisal, or seeing the world around them outside of the RF and national pride rising to the surface in place of a willingness to change
I worked with two expat Russians years ago.Great guys,but one smelled like a distillery on the job half the work week.And no,I didn't snitch.He took a bus to and from work.The other admitted he loved his Voddy,but just occasionally.Seems people in colder,northern climates drink more.Regardless of the quality of life,even.Alaska,Maine,Finland,et al.And Russia in the winter,fecking hell.
@@ibiza1290 True,,I heard about rampant alcoholism on some Vice docu.I think it may have been Uganda or Congo.Locals were half crazed by some rotgut local ""moonshine".
Not gonna lie, while I haven't touched the stuff in a long time now, because I just can't any longer, I LOVE vodka. It's basically getting very high, very quick. I'm too weak to manage it well so I just have to abstain. That stuff can ruin you.
Better worry about the cheap, legal hard drug: alcohol. Physically, alcohol is as addictive as heroin, more physically damaging too, and insidious, you can buy it anywhere without having to find the right connection. It's socially accepted too, I've never had anyone question me refusing any other drug, but if you refuse a drink people look at you like you're a leper. Alcohol is more dangerous than heroin, meth or crack when you ignore black markets and legal consequences. You'd be better having a nation booked in opium than alcohol!
solution is easy. show some cases of methanol poisoning and scare people about unregistered distilleries and then pass a law requiring alcohol makers to be registered by the state, pass cleaning restrictions and make sure they have up to date licenses. next step push up the price of alcohol, whole at the same time sponsor alcohol recovery programs. if alcohol is too expensive people won't drink.
Some would spend everything they had for drink.Families of alcoholic heads of the house would even go without food.How about alcoholic family and neighbors stealing from you for drink
@@jakubmaly50 Read my comment above. As someone who spends 6 months out of every year in Russia, it would be my guess that this documentary is outdated (although I admit, I don't have access to cold hard raw data). I even know several Russians who won't touch a drop - including my father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law. A lot has changed in Russia since 2003 - this doco is almost 20 years old now. The other reason I'd say I'm in a fairly good position to provide a "finger in the air" opinion about this is because I own/run a number of hotels over there. I've seen alcohol sales fall year on year (granted, the hotels I run are very family oriented). At one point, we suspected some of the staff were selling their own alcohol instead of the hotel's, but an investigation in to this showed this wasn't the case.
And people mock Muslims for not going near alcohol. In Islam ALLAH ALLMIGHTY forbids certain things because its bad for you, ALLAH ALLMIGHTY says everything that is forbidden is bad for you and the world in general. Their is wisdom in God's rules.
Religion is a drug on its own, we are all born free without any bullshit, or in a bad circumstances, family or lack of will form/corrupt us in some way. For some parents Islam is the way, for some its alcoholism for some its hockey,,, We learn from our parents, by how they live and so on.
Most depressing and disturbing to see such alcoholism across an entire vast country. Painful to see so many in a stupor or struggling to walk upright. It's just one of the failures of Communism and an Orthodox Church, both joined at the hip and unable to inspire so many to transcend this debilitating addiction. Fortunately, Baha'u'llah not only forbids the use of alcohol by Baha'is in Russia and elsewhere, but He provides a vast body of transformative and uplifting Text that inspires one to wand to eschew the consumption of this poison. His Message is most appropriate for addressing this problem and so many others afflicting humanity nowadays. Problems which the earlier Religions perforce were not mandated to address the problem with the emphasis needed today.
"It's not an alcoholic drink, it's a soft drink"
This was epic.
A Lithuanian man I know laughs when I tell him I only drink beer and yet it is not just a soft drink as the cops will attest on the weekends
Maybe it's your breath
Considering that the average Russian probably drinks AT LEAST a pint of vodka a day, it's not a surprise that Russians wouldn't consider beer an alcoholic drink.
Beer gets you wrecked though 😂
@@j.c7719 Russians are used to drinking necks of vodka, so to them drinking beer is probably like drinking Sprite.
So sad. The people have had such a dreadful time. For centuries.
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You get the government you deserve.
The whole country suffers from PTSD in my opinion.
God bless them. As a former alcoholic I shed tears knowing what those men grow up in.
@@remaguire how could they not? WWI, then the Civil War then all the purges from Stalin, then WWII. I guess they caught a bit of a break when Khruchev and Breznev was is power but the collapse of the Union was poorly handled and now Russia is back in the shitter again.
All you have to do is watch the many videos of traffic in Russia and you it will be obvious to you that many of the drivers are drunk.
I don't blame them. I would probably do the same if I had to live in such a country.
Soon you'll be doing fetty to forget that you're not a Russian 😋
Tell me about it some get there WATER from a WELL in some VILLAGES and don't even have ELECTRICITY and when they invaded UKRAINE the SOLDIERS stole TAPS/FAUCETS & TOILETS from UKRAINIAN HOMES and sending them back to RUSSIA .And they actually thought WATER came out the wall thats the gods honest truth they didn't know anything about plumbing and one RUSSIA WRITER once said if i fell asleep now and woke up in another 100 years what would i expect RUSSIA to be like?? And he said the exact same as it is today a bunch of ALCOHOLIC THIEVES 😂
What about all the drinking in 2 ANZAC countries?
@@pattywickson9046 Everyone knows you're on fetty and living in a tent, Patty.
Explains the rampant alcoholism in America doesn't it
Heavy drinking is considered heroic 😢
Kinda weird to hear that Cola and Pepsi are the „healthy alternative“ to literally anything 😂
The US tried something similar nearly 100 years ago and it made the problem worse. Americans didn't like being told what they could and could not do.
USA has age restrictions. Alcohol prices aren’t as cheap. Even our commercials can’t show people actually drinking the product. Yet alcohol is a problem in the USA.
Can I drink with you?
You are my Heroe
I believe in You😅
If it was not for prohibition in the US, organized crime would never have grown to the proportions it has!
The “choice” between sodas and alcohol is a false choice. 😢 Neither product enhances human health. 😢😢😢
at least with soda you will not get impotence and you will not pee your brains out in toilet
You can become impotent through type 2 diabetes caused by insulin resistance.
Привет всем из России,у нас сильно пили и употребляли наркотики,в 90х годах, сейчас уровень пьянства у нас в стране снизился
What country??
This was made in 2003. Would be interesting to see if it still holds today. I spend about 6 months out of every year living/working in Russia. I don't know the stats, but on the surface the Russians didn't appear like they were hitting it hard (not in my circles, anyway). I mean, every now and then I came across someone who made/drank their own cha-cha. But from my observations, even those selling cha-cha from the trunk of their cars aren't doing too well these days.
Alcohol and tobacco are legacies of communism. And Putin does not defend the life of the Russian people: Carlsberg, Heineken, Budweiser, British American Tobacco, Philip Morris International, Japan Tobacco International.
Yes, the amount of alcohol consumed by average Russian has decreased a lot.
It isn't even close to the epidemic levels that peaked in the 1990s- early 2000s.
Now, Finland took the new title for drunkards, but hasn't seen the same levels of mortality, because the Finns binge drink a lot, but don't drink hard daily the way the Russians were/are infamous for.
2024, worse
Alcohol is such a yucky drug: Tastes bitter like shit, has heavy secondary effects (nausea, increased urination, heartburn, etc.), it has a horrible crash (i.e. hangover), its effects last too little, it's weak especially compared to drugs with the same mechanism (e.g. benzos), it's more expensive than drugs with the same mechanism (e.g. benzos), it gives you alcohol breath, among many others.
Yeah i had a taste of it in my teens many moons ago and didn't like it and it's caused so many deaths over the years yet people think its just fun..
And its boring af!
My family came from a 99-100 % Morman town in Utah, population 500 in 1960, 800 in 2000 and 1500 in 2020’s. It’s starting to diversify.
A differance of drinking a nice cold beer on a hot summers day or sharing a brewsky with friends for enjoyment and drinking just to get drunk!
An alkoholic is an alkoholic no matter what they drink.
How can anyone still defend the stance that weed is worse than booze …. I bet if we lived in a society where weed was legal and booze illegal …. The world would be a better happier, friendlier place
Легализация тоже ничего хорошего не сделала,мир был бы лучше,если бы люди были чистыми
А травка для многих является трамплином к употреблению других наркотиков
' real men ' socializing. The stigma of admitting your an alcoholic adds to the excuses NOT to seek help .
Dying a premature death is not off putting to an alcoholics way of life . Most of them long for death as they've not been able to figure a way out of their dilemma. Their behavior over a multitude of drunk episodes leaves them with the awakened state of remorse , guilt , regret and revenge especially when all of these feelings go unanswered hence the need for another drink to FORGET their past . Their future lives now revolve around alcohol and everyone knows it accept the alcoholic. The suffering alcoholic has one aim and that is oblivion. In oblivion you forget the past and don't create a future your terrified of . But again he wakes up and his one desire is another drink and another until he either seeks help beyond himself or commits suicide.
There is a way out . I know .
Pretty silly for a nation with such a history of vodka addiction to worry about beer. If anything maybe it will make people get less drunk.
Exactly..They think switching ALCOHOL to ALCOHOL will fix the problem?? What a sad mentality to even think that..SMH
It's still alcohol
6:47 i bet some serious drunk fighting has gone down in that room
Made in 2003 released three years ago and arrived today,? wow the speed of things today almost as fast as my pigeons.
I'm from Australia - why is everyone in Russia drinking out of the bottle the way they are, e.g. the nozzle of bottle goes into entirety of the mouth, allowing flowback? It's truly a disgusting thing to watch..
I feel very lucky that I totally dislike alcohol - I always did, even as a teenager
I once tried champagne to see what the hype was all about, had to spit it out, tasted like vinegar. Then I sipped the beer, so bitter, I guess you have to have the taste buds for it.
@@deidradahl2802 you all do realize it has nothing to do with taste, it's a psychological issue, it's your brain chemicals, some people get a satisfying hit of dopamine just reading a book or watching a movie while some people like alcoholics need more stimulation just to reach the same level of reward as the person watching a movie or reading.
@@TitanGhostFilms-- Well I never, this is surprising information., I always thought alcohol had to do with taste. Thanks for the info, I have to do some research on it.
I wonder after 20 years since that report, how many of those happy drunks died from liver disease
Beer is not a big deal at all compared to vodka.
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This is why Ukraine has kicked their arses, all the troops are drunk.
Someone still on their ghost of kiev copium
by 2016 russia's alcohol consumption by per head fall by around 46%
Interviewer: Do you have a drug problem?
Rock star: No. I have lots of money.
I hardly think drinking a beer outside on a nice day counts as alcoholism. the real alcoholics don't leave their homes and can't hold down jobs or relationships
1:49 "Why should I be careful? A beer a day helps!"
His girlfriend/wife looks afraid.
Say that when your liver is failing in 20 years time..
That must be his daughter??
@@martinmollerup2265 I doubt it.
Russians didn’t drink vodka, russians diving in vodka
По венам русских течет не кровь а водка,что уд там
Never been there but it must be a tough country to live in.
I think Russia is the only country that drinks more than Australia
Do some research and think again. Russia is not in the first place in alcohol consumption per capita. And it’s very funny how they put it in this video regarding beer… Germany, Ireland, Czech Republic are beer nations, not Russia 😂
Vodka is a different issue. Average age of russian male at death - 58. Reason - vodka, not beer.@@ruslander1
They drunk half the world's alcohol 😂
@@ruslander1Belgians are the biggest beer drinkers in Europe!
Maybe this is why everyone in Russia has a dashcam.
is it me or is that a pro-lenin priest/monk? he has a lenin image in the background but seems to run a religious shelter-house
Lenin was anti-alcohol.
and for those that do not drink, there is denialism of what is going on around them - either from fear of reprisal, or seeing the world around them outside of the RF and national pride rising to the surface in place of a willingness to change
I worked with two expat Russians years ago.Great guys,but one smelled like a distillery on the job half the work week.And no,I didn't snitch.He took a bus to and from work.The other admitted he loved his Voddy,but just occasionally.Seems people in colder,northern climates drink more.Regardless of the quality of life,even.Alaska,Maine,Finland,et al.And Russia in the winter,fecking hell.
The gin epidemic in Nigeria is crazy. It's not just cold countries.
@@ibiza1290 True,,I heard about rampant alcoholism on some Vice docu.I think it may have been Uganda or Congo.Locals were half crazed by some rotgut local ""moonshine".
They need weed instead
Нет уж,нам тут не нужна филадельфия
They have had it for centuries
yes because it's not like they won't cross fade it with alcohol and get high as fuck
What a sad nation and I don't dislike a wine.
Not gonna lie, while I haven't touched the stuff in a long time now, because I just can't any longer, I LOVE vodka. It's basically getting very high, very quick. I'm too weak to manage it well so I just have to abstain. That stuff can ruin you.
That priest has Lenin behind his back. You can't have it both ways though.
Yuri Lyubimov looks good for 86, lucky guy.
I thought this was something to do with Paulie from Goodfellas ! 😄
They could use some legalised weed to take the edge off.
Russians drink about 15 liters
Beer drinking has put more people in prison than any other cause.
Soft drink weekend again is it?
So sad seeing those women in their 20s drink their fragile beauty away at 3x the already unforving usual rate
Says Mr. Tequila Sunrise
@@fraiserkansteiner7115 its an easier choice when you didnt have beauty to begin with
Theyll look like old women by the time there in there 30-40's with constant drinking 🍻
Yes it's so much more civilised in western cultures watching women get blotto on wine
What is the lifespan of the women.
70 years at best
@@grievetan why live longer?
@@AleksandrKoshakoffGSWomen tend to live longer then men. Thats just the way it is.
This explains a lot about the current affairs. Sick and immoral.
This video is so old, when it was made Americans still had hope in their country
Это вся Россия!!! Прошлое, настоящее и будущее! Россия - это бутылка хорошей охлажденной водки!
You're good no worries
You better be concerned about drug cartels bringing drugs through the southern border and all sorts of crimes
Better worry about the cheap, legal hard drug: alcohol. Physically, alcohol is as addictive as heroin, more physically damaging too, and insidious, you can buy it anywhere without having to find the right connection. It's socially accepted too, I've never had anyone question me refusing any other drug, but if you refuse a drink people look at you like you're a leper. Alcohol is more dangerous than heroin, meth or crack when you ignore black markets and legal consequences. You'd be better having a nation booked in opium than alcohol!
I am sick of Liberty Mutual ads period don't ever use liberty mutual period
I can give you a free idea for a great movie. Just find money and fly to the USA where you gonna find tons of similar materials even better.
Pathetic. You are jealous because the US is a sucessful society, russia is a joke. A drunken joke.
solution is easy. show some cases of methanol poisoning and scare people about unregistered distilleries and then pass a law requiring alcohol makers to be registered by the state, pass cleaning restrictions and make sure they have up to date licenses. next step push up the price of alcohol, whole at the same time sponsor alcohol recovery programs. if alcohol is too expensive people won't drink.
Some would spend everything they had for drink.Families of alcoholic heads of the house would even go without food.How about alcoholic family and neighbors stealing from you for drink
This is such an old video.
isn't it still relevant?
@@jakubmaly50 Read my comment above. As someone who spends 6 months out of every year in Russia, it would be my guess that this documentary is outdated (although I admit, I don't have access to cold hard raw data). I even know several Russians who won't touch a drop - including my father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law. A lot has changed in Russia since 2003 - this doco is almost 20 years old now. The other reason I'd say I'm in a fairly good position to provide a "finger in the air" opinion about this is because I own/run a number of hotels over there. I've seen alcohol sales fall year on year (granted, the hotels I run are very family oriented). At one point, we suspected some of the staff were selling their own alcohol instead of the hotel's, but an investigation in to this showed this wasn't the case.
@@MnemonicCarrier and your also part of the KGB
@@211hitter6 You got me! You're so clever.
@@MnemonicCarrier Yeah, alcohol consumption has fallen precipitously in Russia since around 2005 . It's comparable to US levels now.
Why are Slavs generally stronger and faster than Western Europeans?
I'm spiderman
no you're not mate
and I'm cyclops too
I love that for you
So sad, leave the shit alone.
Next up, "America's meth/fentanyl/heroin Problem".
Россия на 16 месте по алкоголю,это все ваши стереотипы .алкоголики есть,как и в других странах ,но во многих странах заливаюи похлеще
Russia #4
And people mock Muslims for not going near alcohol. In Islam ALLAH ALLMIGHTY forbids certain things because its bad for you, ALLAH ALLMIGHTY says everything that is forbidden is bad for you and the world in general. Their is wisdom in God's rules.
It's more for the oppression of women/pedophilia thing.
maybe have one drink and relax instead of blowing stuff up?
Yet you guys produce and give your children opium to stop them from crying. Religion is always full of shit and hypocrisy
Religion is a drug on its own, we are all born free without any bullshit, or in a bad circumstances, family or lack of will form/corrupt us in some way. For some parents Islam is the way, for some its alcoholism for some its hockey,,, We learn from our parents, by how they live and so on.
Yes, you're a better class of people.
Russia in 2003 what about 2024?
Most depressing and disturbing to see such alcoholism across an entire vast country. Painful to see so many in a stupor or struggling to walk upright. It's just one of the failures of Communism and an Orthodox Church, both joined at the hip and unable to inspire so many to transcend this debilitating addiction.
Fortunately, Baha'u'llah not only forbids the use of alcohol by Baha'is in Russia and elsewhere, but He provides a vast body of transformative and uplifting Text that inspires one to wand to eschew the consumption of this poison. His Message is most appropriate for addressing this problem and so many others afflicting humanity nowadays. Problems which the earlier Religions perforce were not mandated to address the problem with the emphasis needed today.
Vodka all day long because it sucs there
Good government..take care they people.. solute Russia.. but please stop drink that can't killing you someday.
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11:49 my God...😐
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Putin toilet.
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