Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cows, Vodka, Acres, Potatoes, Soil, Love, Hate...
...Vodka bootlegging in Siberia was said to be thriving despite severe restrictions imposed by the Soviet authorities. Peasants do the bootlegging for the most part, because they find that they can get more for their grain by using it for distilling the illicit beverage than by selling it to the Government. According to the Pravda, Moscow journal, grain to the value of more than $3,000,000 was used last year in the manufacture of vodka...
...fate of Russia grows ever more tragic. In the unbelievably pleasant days before the war its nobles shared with the French the title of intellectual aristocrats of the world, and its vodka addicted peasants moved native and impressive through a thousand gripping novels. A voluntary bath of blood unfortunately washed the glamor from this old Russian life and left the rest of the world amazed and horrified by tales of the temperamental Red gone politically and economically wild. To the conservative the last twist to Russia's woeful thread of fate is given by Charles Recht's report that Russia...
...communications, and only the picturesque accounts of the war reporters were forth-coming, the generally lurid impression was not modified. One was taught in school that Russia was composed of a very large number of peasants who slept on the stove and consumed a uniquely potent stimulant called vodka, guaranteed to baffle the coldest weather and the Czar, a glorious individual, at whose slightest whim the whole aggregation of peasants would gladly cast itself upon the bayonets of an enemy...
About Prohibition: "... a word on the immense service he rendered it (the army) at the beginning of the War in suppressing the manufacture and sale of vodka. . . . The Emperor did this entirely on his own initiative, without advice from his ministers or the Grand Dukes. The Emperor said at the time: ' At least by this will I be remembered...