Alcoholism in Russia

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Even grandmas get into it.

Not acting like a proper lady.

I was at dinner with some people about a year ago, one of whom was a Russian woman, visiting from Omsk. One guy playfully asked her why everyone in Russia drank vodka and she rather unhumorously snapped back, "Why does everyone in America take Prozac?"

Russian drunks fighting over the last shot of vodka.

Drunk man harassing an old babushka.

Inside a Russian home.

It’s bad.

In russia, bottle kills you!

Not a comfy way to pass out.

Friends who pass out together, stay together.

R4, the answer to that is, "they take Prozac so that they won't drink and rot out their livers, like you fucking cunts do."

Shot time.

I've been there a few times, and it really is bad. In Moscow, they have kiosks along the street that sell beer. There are bars everywhere, selling a million different kinds of vodka, and it was very inexpensive. People are drunk everywhere. I rode the subway a lot -- it is the most incredibly beautiful system I've ever seen in my life; each stop is different, and they were all like museums -- and a good percentage of the people were barely-standing-up drunk. It is everywhere. I didn't notice it quite so much in St Petersburg, but I didn't venture off the beaten path quite as much there.

oops!

Is it comrable to the opiod epidemic here- because I've seen that shit hit people from all walks of life, all ages (grannies too!).

Riding on the metro

Been there. Moscow's disgusting. Like 100X worse than Dublin on a Saturday night.

At least he is smiling.

Bad news.. I was in Moscow and St. Petersburg in '10 and it was a record heatwave. 103 degrees for days. No air-conditioning. So many very drunk men dove into whatever water and died. We saw so many men during the day with no shirt, open shirt with a bottle of vodka falling down drunk. Russia is gross.

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How is Ivan's hygiene "down there?"

Angry,drunk old Russian lady.

This is nothing new. When I was in college back in the 80s my Russian professor showed us a New Yorker-like cartoon (but in Russian) showing a drunkard sprawled out on a bench while his buddy looks on and asks him quizzically, "Chanel No. 5??" Apparently people were so desperate for alcohol that they often drank perfume.

In reference to a poster upstream who compared it to our opioid epidemic: it's very very different. You can't necessarily tell if the person sitting next to you is on them, but you can sure tell if someone is falling down drunk.

How dare you make fun of zee Russian people!

What do you call a Russian president who eats beans?

Tootin' Putin

Russian wedding turns into a drunken brawl.

Life expectancy of Russian men is 64. But a quarter die before 55, compared with 5% in the UK and 10% in the US. The main reason is vodka. Heroin is another major cause.

[quote]“The main reason for the extraordinary difference in premature death between Western and Eastern Europe is alcohol,” said an author of the studies, Richard Peto, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Oxford. “Russians are drinking spirits dangerously. Typically, Russian men drink their vodka neat. They also tend to drink until they are drunk, and then continue drinking.'

Those are some vodka sucking lips

A couple in love.

Fer chrissakes, these poor sods live in Russia. Isn't that bad enough?

Why do you think they drink?

Ask these guys

Vodka. Is good.

Nap time.

I bet it's easy to get these guys to put out for some vodka.

I spend a few weeks in Russia every year. Moscow, like any other GaWC Alpha city, has its drunks who congregate mainly around train stations and in large plazas. Eight to ten years ago, drunks were everywhere you turned. Passed out on the street, sidewalk, benches, subway cars, anywhere. That changed. For the past few years, I have witnessed fewer public drunks that every before. I have been visiting Moscow since 1986.

Drunks on long distance trains used to be very common. I have not seen one in four years. The decline in drinking and smoking are part of Putin's crackdown on unhealthy behaviors. I live in SoCal, and smoking is permissible more here than in today's Russia. Vodka and beer -- mainstays of Russian social life -- are sold in fewer places than before, and while cheap by our standards, are expensive to Russians. As a major city, Moscow experiences urbanites flouting the laws and cops and other people generally ignoring them. But in smaller cities, public drunkenness is really rare. In somebody's home, fine. But not in public. Regular people, cops, security guards all will admonish you if you violate the new directives from Putin.

I wonder what perspective Putin takes on this obvious social dilemma. Does it work that the masses are anesthetizing themselves into an early grave, or does this somehow motivate him to re-charge his country by aggressively cracking down hard on others- trying to appropriate land, resources, $$$ that his own nation cannot produce.

My god,R23, that old woman sounds like a possessed Linda Blair!

Anything that kills russians is fine by me:)

Soviet pride!

Drunk parents, sober baby?

Drunk chick

[quote]This is nothing new. When I was in college back in the 80s my Russian professor showed us a New Yorker-like cartoon (but in Russian) showing a drunkard sprawled out on a bench while his buddy looks on and asks him quizzically, "Chanel No. 5??" Apparently people were so desperate for alcohol that they often drank perfume.

I can't find the links right now, but in the past week there have been articles about Russia banning the sale of large bottles of perfume. Too many deaths of desperate drunks. Guess they'll have to kill themselves a few ounces at a time.

Jeez R47 it's like they don't have mouth wash or vanilla extract in Russia. Also they are developing a heroin problem. So I guess that is the fallout from Putin's plan.

They seem to seek totalitarian governments, then drink to escape the misery.

R47, I read that article about Russians drinking perfume too. I can’t find it either, but there’s a lot of articles about it on google.

Here you go, R50.

All ages.

From old..

To young.

One in every six alcohol-related deaths in the world happens in Russia.

I just watched this on BBC a few hours ago. No wonder they meddled in the U.S. elections. Misery loves company.

[quote] How is Ivan's hygiene "down there?"

There's no real hygiene practiced by any of them. Their teeth/gums are the wet dream of a periodontist. You could scrub a grill with their pubic hair.

As penance for their sins to the world, and since they are such great BFFs now, all Trump voters should be forced to live in Russia for the remainder of their lives. Preferably Siberia.

Hey, maybe they can help the Russians Make Russia Great Again!

If it's not the alcohol, it's the sinkholes that will kill them. Truly a shit hole of a place.

R38 do you go to Russia for a few weeks a year for personal/pleasure reasons, because you love going there? Or is it more for professional or obligatory reasons? I've always wished to see Moscow, St Petersburg, and some of the famed country side and seaside areas . . .

Dear Lord in Heaven!

A lot of the drunk people in the linked pics look like they have fetal alcohol syndrome. Really you don't stand a chance when your brain formed incorrectly in utero due to the effects of booze. Sad.

Are the Russians still hooked on crocodil? (if you haven't heard of crocodil DO NOT google it: it's a street drug made from codeine pills that is the most addictive thing on earth and once you begin taking it your flesh starts to rot off your limbs until the bones are visible in your arms and legs...like a zombie). Maybe crocodil was an Internet hoax?

Instead of turning me off, this thread has Made Me Want To Go There.

This is sad. The Russian people have been through hell. Under the czars, under the Red monsters, under Putin and the gangsters.

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Yikes.

Wow.

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Moscow.

A day at the park.

Last Russian leader who wasn't a monster or a compulsive thief was Catherine (The Great) II and she was German.

You can connect he dots from this to how anti-gay they are. Rampant alcoholism is accelerating population decline, so, everyone who isn't a drunk needs to procreate, including the homos. It's a perverse logic, but that's what happens to countries in permanent decline, like Russia and now the USA.

Embarrassing.

[quote]Is it comrable to the opiod epidemic here- because I've seen that shit hit people from all walks of life, all ages (grannies too!).

Oh look, Oleg wants to bond with us by conflating Russian alcohol abuse with American opioid abuse.

Not even remotely comparable numbers, comrade. You should come visit sometime if the troll farm gives you time off.

R27 - Wouldn't "Poopin' Putin" be a better name?

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I call dis dish, pieroshki alla CK1 imitation cologne.

Is good. Put hair on chest.

Soviet anti-alcohol posters

More.

The one with the stairs is very artistic.

Just say NO!

They smoke like chimneys too. The food is disgusting. No jobs. That's why being a troll at a troll farm looks like you won the lottery.

....Varnish, cologne and insecticide: how to drink like a Russian

What a hellhole.

Now just imagine that smell of stale booze on top of the body odor many Russians are alleged to have. I could just hurl.

[quote]Last Russian leader who wasn't a monster or a compulsive thief was Catherine (The Great) II and she was German.

Are you kidding? Catherine was a warmongering,murderous, gluttonous, sex-crazed, hoarder who never saw a thing of value she didn’t confiscate for herself. As for being German, most of Europe’s royals, including Britain’s own Betty Windsor, were/are German.

So are they all drunk while they’re trolling us?

I feel sorry for them. It's a country that has not transitioned or adjusted well to a capitalist system.

This is not about drinking, but this is an incredibly disturbing and depressing documentary about streetkids in Moscow. Depressing as hell to watch.

Do what are they doing about this problem? Sounds serious and chronic.

I suspect they're doing the only thing they can do, restricting sales. Medical care is poor in Russia and I'm sure mental health care is either looked down upon (foreign concept initiated by Jews) or prohibitively expensive for the average Ivan.

AA was banned in the USSR until Glasnost when Gorbachev was extremely concerned about their ridiculous rates of alcoholism. I think there was some restriction of sale back then, too, but of course that never works for a hardcore alcoholic who is intent on drinking. Around this same time I read of the craziest method of obtaining some precious drops of alcohol: placing a hunk of shoe polish on bread and setting it in the sun so the alcohol would seep out into the bread. Bottoms up!

Of course, it explains most of the crazy dash cam footage. I can't imagine what proportion of motorists are drunk at any given time.

Are those guys in R42 dead?!? The one on the left does have quite the boner going on. I lived in an apartment complex that had tons of Russians,and for the most part I found them very nice . I dont recall any of them being drunkards to this level,but my god they smoked incessantly.

Not dead, R93, just another black-out drunk, passed out Russian.

A couple of years ago I was at L’Arpège in Paris celebrating my partner getting his PhD. At the table next to us were 4 Russian oligarch types - all completely fucking wasted. They kept ordering food which they didn't touch. But they must have plowed through 15 bottles of champagne. One of them kept slipping under the table only to have the Maitre'd come over and prop him back up. The restaurant staff tolerated all of their shit for some reason but the worst was when I went to the bathroom after two of them had been in there for like 15 minutes.

There was a used needle, blood and wadded up paper towels all over the floor.

We hastily paid the bill and left, with the MAitre'd following behind us, apologizing profusely. Weirdest incident in my whole life.

No wonder the political system is fucked up. Sounds a most unhappy place.

As the Russian saying goes, There's no such thing as happiness. You have to learn to be happy without it.

Why stand up to piss?

More vodka.

Well, this beats Krokodil I suppose..

I don't see what the problem is.

The local populations looks like they are doing just fine.

No problem here.

Oh god, no wonder they have leaders like Putin.

In broad daylight

St Petersburg.

Collapsed on the sidewalk.

I mean...

Just don't post photos of Krokodil addicts... yuck!

So what do these people do, drink until they pass out wherever they fall every day? How do they work or accomplish anything? I’ve heard their GDP is low. This must be why.

How do all their kids not walk in front of a speeding car or set themselves n fire?

On one of these threads I saw a toddler in a stroller drinking a bottle of vodka with the parents passed out beside him. He was probably hungry for food or milk and strapped in so he couldn’t get any. Mommy and daddy drink this and I’m thirsty and this is all I can reach. They must not have Child Protective Services in Russia.

And why are their teeth so rotted so young? Does vodka do that? There’s an advertisement for beer.

And these are the people that want to take over the U.S.? What would they do if they had it? Drink in the middle of the street until an Uber ran them over on the 405 at rush hour? I don’t be think they can make it worse here than it is there. It’s the ninth circle of hell there.

I'd feel more sympathy for them if they hadn't fucked with our elections and weren't trying to take the rest of us down with them.

But it's a fucked-up country--dependent on selling oil, which is the big reason Putin interfered--he doesn't want anyone switching too quickly to renewables.

But, anyway, Russia has both a dropping life expectancy and a declining birth rate. They're screwed.

That’s why I don’t understand the point of trying to take over all these foreign countries. Wrecking the rest of the world won’t fix Russia.

I guess “misery loves company,” but if they’re all going to die of alcoholism and krokodil it’s not my fault, why take it out on me?

I would too if I had to live there.

Is good. Now you have glass of best Russian vodka.

They need to vote for the handsome liberal that's stealing his thunder.

If he makes it till the election.

They are a peasant people. Not very evolved, unfortunately.

[quote]the answer to that is, "they take Prozac so that they won't drink and rot out their livers, like you fucking cunts do."

No, the proper answer to the dumb Russian cunt @ R4 was, "Prozac isn't a national pass time in the US. It's just medication. I don't know anyone who takes it."

pastime

If they only spent half as much time trying to fix their nation's problems, instead of trolling other countries...

[86]. I agree that Catherine II wasn't Abe Lincoln but she wasn't evil in the way that Ivan, Peter II, Lenin and Stalin were. In a pig beauty contest, a monkey wins,

Positive compilation of Russian dash cams

I think it's their opioid

I was glad when Putin stopped the adoption of Russian kids to the US. So many of them seem to have FAS or trauma from living in orphanages. I didn't see that in the girls adopted from China.

Me too, R122. A lot of those FAS kids are very damaged and violent. There were a lot of stories about them acting out violently against parents and other children in the home.

Let the Russians deal with them. They did that to them.

Do not google image krokodil. It doesn’t even look real. 😱

[quote]That’s why I don’t understand the point of trying to take over all these foreign countries. Wrecking the rest of the world won’t fix Russia.

Trying to dominate the rest of the world, regardless of the outcome, is a distraction that makes the Russian people think they are as great as they once were militarily, culturally, economically or otherwise. It's propaganda for those inside, not the rest of the world. It removes the focus from the numerous internal problems including the widespread corruption that has decimated Russia's economy and made Putin and his cronies the riches men in the world. Sanctions aren't the reason Russia's economy is in the toilet and languishes right along with Australia's despite having enormous land mass, natural resources, and human capital to move an economy forward. Except they can't because the rich people have hidden Russian money all over the world, laundered with the help of those like Trump, rather than kick-starting and promoting the motherland's economy with all of that stolen loot.

So basically, Russia is broken into two sections, the rich and powerful and Russian deplorables?

No wonder they love Putin so much. He’s a smarter Trump.

Russians love Putin so much, he is included in subway vending machines dispensing mementos of Russia's most beloved heroes (and saints, it looks like).

Do they really love him or are they forced to love him?

It's not like they have good fonts of information to judge their leaders, R128, just as our trailer park dwellers who think themselves smarter and superior to everyone else think Fox News is the only way to go. The only difference is that the average Russian does not have choices or alternatives. They are fed the crazy propaganda from the cradle.

Probably both, R129. Supposedly they love him because he’s a “real man.”

Sorry, R128. ^^

Yeltsin seemed like he might actually do some good but he ended up redistributing Russia's wealth to his cronies, notably Putin's arch-rival Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Then Putin took over and redistributed all Russia's wealth to HIS cronies. "Oligarchs" are cronies of whoever is in power.

The photo with the 2 drunk, passed out parents and the baby reaching for the vodka bottle is the most disturbing.

It's hard to believe that this is the same culture that gave us Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, excellent ballet, etc.

If any country needs help "making themselves great again," it's Russia!

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It's not capitalism, r88. It's a totalitarian dictatorship.

Putin knows that he has to keep enough of the right kind of people happy in order to keep power. He lets the security services and gangsters operate, and has allowed a small group of oligarchs and 'middle class' prosper so they will look the other way when he kills the journalists and artists who question his power. This gives the illusion of some freedoms of travel and business that really don't exist.

Sad!

Assholes.

Good idea r58 and probably r87.

and Russians are the most miserable people in existence. They are not capable of feeling normal human emotions.

The commies killed everyone who produced those things r134.

Alcoholism was relatively unknown until the 1960's in Russia. It was encouraged by the state as alcoholics don't complain that their lives are shit.

R140, it seems pretty obvious the state wants these people to be drunk and out of it all the time. When I see the encouragement everywhere in the U.S. to normalize heavy drinking and constant heavy pot use, it scares me. I don’t want pictures from the U.S. to look like this in thirty years time.

I went to Russia in 2016. I took a train across the country. Moscow and St Petersburg were amazing. The first woman I met there was a lesbian (funnily enough the first woman I met in China was also a lesbian!) and took me around Moscow sight seeing. They are aware of their reality. A man selling t shirts joked to me about Putin. They know what's up, but what can they do about it? They are ruled by a new mafia. You shut up and get on with life.

I didn't see a lot of drunks passed out or anything like that. The people in the cities are very well groomed, well put together but very stoic.

In fact I had a beer at the hotel by myself while writing in my journal and it was the cause of great concern. I kind of wish someone HAD drunk with me.

I suspect the bad areas have problems. But really this thread is like the equivalent of showing pictures of gang violence in the inner city in the US and saying; "See!? America's fucked!"

I'm sure parts of Moscow and Petersburg look fine, but alcoholism is enough of an issue that a quarter of Russian men are dying early because of it. That's the real tell--dropping life expectancy. You have some of that in the U.S., but not to the same degree. In the U.S., it's not gang violence, but O.D.s and suicide among white males.

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Russians are complete trash and deserve their long history of misery.

Just another day for drunks in Russia.

Drunk Russian coal miner.

Classy.

Making Russia Great Again!

I used to go to a Russian auto mechanic here in the States and he told me when there was a vodka shortage in Russia it was so bad the people would drink antifreeze.

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The men aren't the only ones with anger and drinking problems.

Keep it classy, ladies.

Can't keep away from their vodka.

Just a warning: you can't draw sweeping conclusions about an entire country of 250 million people (or whatever) based on two dozen pictures someone found on the Internet.

Yes, they've got an alcohol problem and they know it - that's why Gorbachev banned vodka sales for a while. And yes, their deplorables are worse than ours. But there are smart, humane people there just like anywhere else.

Candid shot from Google Street images.

They're all alcoholics.

Wow.

I had a group of 5 people from St. Petersburg rent my house for a night this summer. They were all around 25 or so. They were sweet, pleasant, fun, clean, considerate and appreciative. My favorite guests of this year. I bought some bottles of beer and Smirnoff Ice drinks and left them along with orange juice in the refrigerator for them. They drank the orange juice but left the alcoholic drinks untouched. They ate all the cookies though!

If it's not alcohol, it's opioid. Is it that bad being white these days?

Wouldn't you want this guy working on your rail lines?

Russia is the most heavily drinking nation in the world.

Their next generation of teens is getting in on the act.

Russian Santa too drunk to visit the kids.

Many of them are probably POZ since Russia is also a huge global HIV factory.

Drunk, young Russian parents stumbling around as they push a baby stroller.

More fine parenting.

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This is sad and eye-opening! Is the Russian government doing anything to address this rampant alcoholism?

[quote] Is the Russian government doing anything to address this rampant alcoholism?

Probably not, R169. The Russian government seems to care more about manipulating other country's people, than helping their own.

Those pictures remind me of the baby in Trainspotting, who died because its mother went on a heroin binge and forgot she had a baby for a few days.

I don’t know what the government can do at this point. Everybody over twelve would have the d.t.s if they cut off the booze for a few days. Russians drink perfume, cough syrup, antifreeze...what the hell excuse do they have for drinking poison? “Life is hell”? “It’s cold, so I guess I’ll drink mouthwash”? They must all die of liver failure.

I don’t know what Putin’s attitude is now, but a few years ago I read an interview with Putin where he was in complete denial and refusing to even acknowledge how many alcoholics there were. So what does that mean, he’s hoping they don’t realize what he’s doing, because they’re all too wasted to turn on the news?

Bleak.

Think twice before driving in Russia.

Get up, boys.

R174, that was sad but funny.

Plus ALL Russians are THIEVES!

Appalling.

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Why do people that are that drunk even try to go outside? These people are like heroin addicts, they don’t even know what they’re doing. Why would you care about walking a baby when you can barely stay upright?

I wonder if the husband dragged mom and baby out because the drunken mother doesn’t cook or clean and he was trying to get the baby some fresh air away from all the vomit and dirty dishes. He was practically dragging her down the street. Maybe that’s the only way he could make her stop drinking for five minutes. That baby has to have FAS.

It’s what they don’t show you that’s frightening. Filthy house, unchanged diaper, stove burning with mom passed out on the floor. Kids drinking vodka they find on the floor and dying of alcohol poisoning or drinking bleach or Lysol, or setting themselves on fire. After all the stories about adopted Russian FAS kids raping their new siblings in adoptive homes, or repeatedly setting fires or stabbing people (and that’s in stable American homes), what do those kids do in homes like this? Every generation is going to be more brain damaged and violent.

The truth is probably a high death rate from neglected kids getting themselves killed, and entire families dying from house fires from lit cigarettes when somebody passes out on the floor, or car accidents, plus drunks dying of exposure outside, and they just cover it up. The cops must go out winter mornings and just shovel up the bodies. And it’s so normal to them they don’t even know anything’s wrong. The kids are probably given vodka in their cribs to shut them up.

[quote] Just a warning: you can't draw sweeping conclusions about an entire country of 250 million people (or whatever) based on two dozen pictures someone found on the Internet.

R155, after all of the effort that the brigade of Russian trolls has put into maligning others, causing discord and spreading lies all over the internet, I think you will be hard-pressed to find much sympathy for them on here. Turnabout is fair play, and I see nothing wrong with a dark and humiliating side of their country being exposed.

On a lighter note, it's too bad Rihanna couldn't have used the clip at R174 for her official music video for "Umbrella."

49 people die in one Russian town from drinking bath liquid.

Finishing 3 entire bottles of vodka in one sitting.

How would you like to drive in Russia?

Classy Russian broads.

Over half the population dies young due to alcohol.

A disproportionate number of Russian kids in orphanages suffer from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Passed out.

Unseemly position to pass out in.

Drunk Russians with vodka and gun.

Drunk lady.

Probably another Russian mother drunk while her baby dangles from an 8th floor window.

Russian drinking god knows what.

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Classy. Fighting with a baby crying on her hip.

And I thought America had trashy substance abuse addicts...

Hawt.

The video at R192 never really shows the kid go back inside. The kid looks like it is seriously thinking about jumping. It’s like the person recording is like, oh well, whatever, back to my regularly scheduled program. I wish I knew the translation.

Russians are some of the most notoriously vile, racist fucks around, I could not give less of a shit that they're getting dragged and totally trashed on this thread or others.

R192, the mother is not only probably drunk, but the baby probably saw momma and daddy pulling stupid shit like this and decided to copy them.

Couldnt happen to a more deserving nation. I hope each and everyone of them drinks themselves to death and save the World their deplorableness.

Well, at least he is musically inclined, even if he did pee himself.

Think twice before ordering this Russian mail order bride.

Russian cop on the job.

Well, I do suppose all of this insane drinking is preferable to an even worse alternative: like this father and son bonding over shooting Krokodil together!

No wonder Russians were so keen to get Trump into office.

Seems to me that they would love nothing better than to see the US devolve into a cesspool of angry, deplorable halfwits hopelessly addicted to drugs and opioids, just like them.

[quote] It’s like the person recording is like, oh well, whatever, back to my regularly scheduled program

Lives are cheap in Russia.

The problem is that Russians don't even drink like the hard partying Brits, who drink an insane massive amount, too. They drink themselves to the point of passing out and oblivion.

Foul, nasty, violent people.

The kid at R205 has such swollen eyes I’m guessing he’s in liver failure. Doesn’t even look like he’s made it to puberty.

What the hell possesses a man to poison his own son? In any sane country no one would allow that kid to stay there. He is literally murdering his child in slow motion. Why? Send him to an orphanage, he’s be better off, and Russian orphanages are shit.

R210, I agree. That "father" is a monster. WTF Russia?

So where can I find any video of guys like this having sex?

I never understand how people have the money to be full-time drunks or drug addicts

Blame the weather, folks LMAO!

I visited Russia a couple of times when I was in my 50s. I was getting stared at a lot, and my translator said it was because it was so unusual that a man my age would appear healthy.

Insanely cute young men there. But they don't age well, to put it mildly.

The US saved millions of Russians from starvation in 1921. I wonder if the trauma of that famine was passed on genetically, contributing to the rampant alcoholism of today. Their country has suffered for centuries, but the 20th century alone did a real number on them.

Mind you, I hate Putin and fear he's going to destroy our democracy, if not the whole world. But I also pity the Russians because they seem universally miserable.

There was so much hope and optimism about Russia during the Gorbachev/perestroika era.. sad to see it all ended up like this.

Russians even bringing their drunkenness to other countries.

It's hard to make a dysfunctional culture functional. Russia has never been functional. The Soviet Union collapsed, but Russians seem to be unable to deal with liberty productively. They don't trust it. On some level, the majority want to be told what to do.

They're the one country where the majority don't believe global warming is an issue.

It’s why I vacation there.

R220 = Liza, cracking open another bottle

Why can't Russia get its shit together?

Russia will never succeed and never get its shit together, because they are a morally and fundamentally flawed people.

So civilized.

Is this what the Russian trolls look like after their shift is over?

Another day, another drunk driving incident.

He found an interesting place to sleep.

In Russia, they need sobering up stations.

It’s like a whole country full of people are simultaneously being poisoned while committing suicide.

I realize these people drink a lot, but any possibility they add additives to Russian vodka to make it more poisonous? The rotted teeth in such young people seems odd. Especially front teeth. Is that from vomiting or is vodka corrosive?

Also the fact that a lot of these hard drinkers are skinny as rails. Do they eat? Can they get enough to eat after they’ve spent all their money on vodka?

I wouldn’t put it past Putin to put some addictive substance in Russian vodka that hooks people. The fact that they’re drinking perfume and shooting krokodil suggests an extreme addiction and looking for substitutes. A certain portion of any population doesn’t have the addiction gene. So this huge number of severe alcoholics isn’t necessarily explained by only the alcoholic culture.

Drunk Russian brothers zap themselves with stun guns.

Vodka is 82 calories for 1 ounce of 100 proof. I have a feeling these people drink more than one or two ounces per day. So why aren’t they all fat?

Is Russia secretly North Korea and they’re not getting enough food to eat, and this is how the government handles it? Are the sanctions stopping them from importing food, and they’re not growing enough to support themselves?

[quote] Vodka is 82 calories for 1 ounce of 100 proof. I have a feeling these people drink more than one or two ounces per day. So why aren’t they all fat?

Because they always end up drinking to the point of vomiting, then passing out right after.

Watching these poor people staggering around, obviously feeling like they’re going to throw up, why? Is every man, woman and toddler in Russia bulimic? Who wants to throw up every day? Is it “fun” for them? Do they think throwing up every day after age eight is just the normal way to live?

Or is blacking out every day an acceptable way to forget how shitty your life is? That’s pretty shitty.

I wonder how many of those women passed out all over end up raped.

Somehow I have a feeling all these people don’t get a cushy rehabs or liver transplants either. So, they feel nauseated and sick every day since they were young children. How do they finish school when they’re all drinking all day, every day since they were schoolkids? Or does anyone care, since the teachers are drunk too, probably passed out at their desks?

Yesterday I was reading about GDP. California and New York EACH have a bigger GDP than the whole country of Russia.

This is what a country looks like when you oppress and chase away gays, artists, thinkers, writers, the smartest minds, and then you are just left with the skeletal remains of the drunken deplorables.

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Russia is a hellhole.

Russians are pathetic. Who the hell constantly drinks to the point of inebriation, vomiting, pissing themselves, passing out drunk everywhere?

The Russian trolls posting about how wonderful Trump is on all the other threads.

You have to be pretty damn drunk to say that, even if you’re Russian.

[quote]Is Russia secretly North Korea and they’re not getting enough food to eat, and this is how the government handles it? Are the sanctions stopping them from importing food, and they’re not growing enough to support themselves?

Not sure but it seems probable that they're all nutrient deficient. I do recall hearing some years back (10 years ago, maybe?) that a few thousand Russian soldiers were being fed dog food because it was cheaper than human grade rations. That would drive a person to drink.

Was reading up on alcoholism in Russia. Only Lenin and Gorbachev ever tried to do anything about it. All the other rulers, including Putin, make money off of it. They keep alcohol cheap so the Russians are too drunk to focus and actually do something about their fucked-up country.

Of course, at this point, the Russians are doing so badly that birth rates are down, people are dying young and the economy is in the sewer. Like fuck-ups everywhere, they want to drag down everyone else with them--those troll farms, after all, are full of people willing to do what they can to other people's open elections--after all, they don't have them themselves, why should anyone else?

Is it still true that when you come of age in Russia, they hand you a bottle of vodka, a sack of potatoes, and a hidden camera so you can spy the FSB?

The demographic impact of alcoholism in Russia is shocking. From Wikipedia:

[quote] A study by Russian, British and French researchers published in The Lancet scrutinized deaths between 1990 and 2001 of residents of three Siberian industrial towns with typical mortality rates and determined that 52% of deaths of people between the ages of 15 and 54 were the result of alcohol abuse. Lead researcher Professor David Zaridze estimated that the increase in alcohol consumption since 1987 has caused an additional three million deaths nationwide.

[quote] In 2007, Gennadi Onishenko, the country's chief public health official, voiced his concern over the nearly threefold rise in alcohol consumption over the past 16 years; one in eight deaths was attributed to alcohol-related diseases, playing a major role in Russia's population decline. Men are particularly hit hard: according to a U.N. National Human Development Report, Russian males born in 2006 had a life expectancy of just over 60 years, or 17 years fewer than western Europeans, while Russian females could expect to live 13 years longer than their male counterparts.

Sad!!

In lieu of real vodka, Russians desperately settle for drinking bath lotion.

Ooops, wrong photo. Here is the immensely drinkable "bath lotion."

Russian beach littered with empty alcoholic glass bottles.

Drinking antifreeze.

Just a few glasses of vodka before driving.

I blame Chernobyl. It must have done something to the chemistry of their brains.

[quote] Seventy percent of deaths among men under 35 in Russia's Far East are due to alcohol-related causes, the country’s chief health official warned on Wednesday.

[quote]The Russian trolls posting about how wonderful Trump is on all the other threads. You have to be pretty damn drunk to say that, even if you’re Russian.

No more than the Clinton Foundation trolls.

With the price of vodka having gone up, more and more Russians are turning to dangerous, homemade moonshine.

Looks safe and healthy.

Despair.

If there was ever a country that deserves to be out of its misery, its Russia.

be put out*^^

Ewww, these Russian people live and look like pigs!

Oink, oink!

Funny how both China and Russia ended their totalitarian regimes around the same time. China moved forwards; Russia backwards. Too bad about the Russian winters, Russians could do with some colonizing by more competent countries.

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That's an insane statistic, R251!

The men are drunk slobs, and the women are drunk whores.

I wonder where all the troll farm folk are now? Are they embarrassed because they're probably in half of the photos in this thread? I hope the rest of the world beats the living crap out of these drunk scumbags on the streets during the World Cup. Thin the herd.

They are trash.

The thing that gets me is how joyless and unhappy Russians appear to be.

Even the dirt-poor Bushmen people in Africa, you can see them laughing, dancing, singing. Never with the Russians.

And Russia is the HUGEST country in the world. They have oil, natural resources, supposedly an educated population.. and this is how they take advantage of this... falling down drunk and passing out everywhere like Frat Boys?

Do you know how many countries would kill for the opportunity to have access to the resources of Russia?

Seems to me that Putin needs to focus on cleaning up his own house instead of tampering with other countries' politics or outright invading them (Georgia, Ukraine)!

Funny, this thread really is troll-free--one brief bleat defending Russia and that was it. I guess reading it makes them thirsty.

That’s because there aren’t Russian trolls on DL.

Alt-Right shitposters aplenty, but Russians do not care about tiny little DL.

Yeah, right ^^ I have caught more than my share with their poor English, and Alexa website showed Russia as being one of the countries with the most traffic coming to DL

No sympathy for them.

R270 new to the site?

Booze, religious superstition combined with generations of secular totalitarianism, and seeing the sun less than half the year is why Russia is the way it is.

They need to get the fuck over it. Like others have said, Russia is a large country with plenty of resources that other, less fortunate countries would love to have. The fact that they haven't been able to get their shit together for hundreds of years is entirely their fault.

It's like everything the rest of the world hates about white people in a single country.

Jesus Christ, they really do have a problem with the population "consuming perfumes, cleaning supplies, bath oils and medical tinctures."

Can you imagine resorting to drinking Bubble Bath?

Kids drinking substitute alcohol in Siberia.

Shocking and disturbing. A drunk child stumbling around and being belligerent. Meanwhile, the adults around him just laugh.

That video at R283 is like a bunch of vampires biting a kid and then laughing. Sick.

Imagine a country where everybody over thirty looks like Steve Bannon. That’s Russia.

On the bright side, whenever the US is feeling particularly shitty about the state of affairs here, they can always look at Russia and thank goodness we're not them!

Yeah, well I'd feel better about the U.S. if we didn't have a kleptocratic nutjob in the Oval Office.

The behavior of that child at R282 horrifies me. He’s too drunk to stand up so he ends up pissing on his hands and knees. Then drags himself through his own piss on his knees.

Judging by the huge amount of piss, which is probably pure 100 proof vodka, at his weight how is he alive? That kid is a lightweight. It makes you wonder if a kid that size can become brain damaged from alcohol poisoning. Are they trying to kill him? And why is it so important for the adults there to make an alcoholic out of a young child? It’s as if there is a deadline. You must be an out of control alcoholic that pisses all over himself by age twelve or...what? They act like they can’t let him go until he is destroyed like they are. His mother is probably passed out drunk in the middle of the street with her dress over her head and a line of men pissing on her and laughing.

That doesn’t look recreational, it looks like they think it’s really important to ruin his life as soon as possible. So why does EVERY Russian have to become a used up drunk at the earliest possible moment? Is there a quota? Does the government make it mandatory to destroy yourself as soon as you possibly can?

Russia looks like Dante’s Inferno. No wonder they want to ruin all the other countries too.

I can't wait for the Word Cup next year. I don't know how they are going to deal with the huge influx of foreigners who will observe a lot of this. Unlike Sochi, where things events were within a contained area and better controlled, the tournament will have venues all over Russia. I'm sure they'll do round ups of natives who are known for drunken disorderlies, but it's so prevalent that it's like pulling up a weed only to have several others pop up. You can't jail 20-30% of the male population. Also, Russia has a huge problem with organized hooliganism surrounding soccer teams. There are numerous videos on Youtube of organized fights fueled by alcohol. They're sort of the Russian version of flash mobs. And they're racist as hell. No doubt visitors with dark skin will be subject to racial abuse, but there aren't any laws to protect them. Will the police intervene?

OK, seriously. Does Russia have some type of Child Protective Service?? Where are that boys parents at R282, and how are the adults just laughing throughout that disturbing video at R282??

His mother is whoring herself out for a bottle of vodka and his father is drinking the bottles of vodka, R289.

Apparently in Russia the whole point of having children is to have another family member to drown themselves in vodka. Child Protective Services must not exist.

I wonder how many of these young kids are turning tricks for vodka. It’s not like their parents wouldn’t help them drink it. I guess there’s not a self respecting person left in the whole country.

The men in Russia certainly don't to seem to think twice about smacking the women around.

Well, doncha know R291, Russia just decriminalized domestic violence this year? Not only is it cheaper for asshole males to get vodka, but they can slap their bitches around and blame all their travails on the useless, drunken cunts they fuck!

Animals, R292.

Classy

[quote]It's like everything the rest of the world hates about white people in a single country.

Yeah! Just like Amerikkka!

[quote]Imagine a country where everybody over thirty looks like Steve Bannon. That’s Russia.

A lot of the under-30s resemble Bannon too.

Oh, well. They’re white. At least they have that going for them.

Aww did we trigger the poor Russian trolls again? ☹️☹️

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A lovely nation of wifebeaters and domestic violence.

Just another day in Russia, just another drunk Russian passed out on the side of the road.

Fighting for more booze

[quotes] Oh, well. They’re white. At least they have that going for them.

Maybe underneath all of that dirt and filth you're white, but even then, not even Eastern Europe wants to claim you!

Not even the caged grizzly bears like drunk Russians. Who can blame them?

Not even poor animals are safe from Russian alcoholics. This poor, blind bear was forced to drink alcohol to entertain Russian guests in Sochi. Fortunately, he was eventually saved by an animal sanctuary in Europe.

Drunk Russians flee crash scene after killing 5 month old baby and mother in Thailand.

Fortunately they are caught by Thai police.

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You can always tell a ton about people based upon how they treat animals.

And Russians are notable for their animal cruelty.

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These are the most mild images of Russians committing animal cruelty.

Psychotic Russians have no business having children or pets. Thank goodness that so many international Olympic athletes stepped up and adopted animals after the Sochi Olympics.

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They should film The Walking Dead there. They could save the expense of putting makeup on the extras.

Save the animals in Russia!

Is there any type of gay scene in Moscow/St Petersburg?

Can't they be arrested?

That's pretty incredible that people can be arrested for being gay, but all these drunks can be passed out on the street and nobody does a thing..

Putin needed a distraction/enemy. Enter: The gays!

R315, the gay scene in Russia is: gays cautiously try to hook up online. They meet in a park. The supposed “gay date” turns out to be a gang of homophobic thugs, who beat and stomp him, then he wakes up in their flat, where he is videotaped slowly being raped and tortured to death over days, then he dies, then they gleefully post it on the Russian version of YouTube. Everyone sees it and laughs. No arrests are made. Ever. The end.

That’s the gay scene in Russia.

Sounds like hell on Earth, R319.

Jesus R319.

They are finally trying to address their alcohol problem, but it isn't really working so far.

They go through multiple bottles of vodka in one sitting.

Passed out on the ice.

Don't be a victim of crime in Russia. You might have to rely on constantly drunk cops!

Another drunk Russian situation.

Da.

Not being alcoholics themselves, they have to get bears addicted, too.

Video to accompany R324 image.

The most alcohol-plagued nation in the world.

Despite my anger with the Russians and their naughtiness in our election (paybacks are forthcoming, they may be sure), I can not take pleasure in their suffering. Nor should you.

Russians troll the entire internet, pushing stories that ridicule, divide, poke fun of, and demeans Americans.

They are big and drunk boys and girls. They can handle one tiny little thread that sheds light on a very real problem for their country.

R319, it's too bad Russian homophobes don't end up like the attackers in this Russian gay short film (subtitled in English).

This thread is so depressing.

Well, Russia is a depressing hellhole, R334.

[quote] I can not take pleasure in their suffering.

I can! There is no other country in this world that so richly deserves their misery, alcohol addiction, poverty, low quality of life, and low life expectancy than Russia.

And after Trump is removed from office, I hope we give them MORE sanctions to watch them sink even further into their abyss.

^ Yes, and that would be good for us and the world, how? How do you manage a nuclear power with nothing to lose?

Why can't Russia get its shit together?

They've only had hundreds of years!

I feel sorry for the kids in that country. It seems Russians can't manage to take care of their own kids.

Russia has over twice the number of kids that end up in orphanages than the USA, with half the population. And these orphanages have abominable conditions:

[quote] There have been reports over the years that the conditions in the orphanages are not providing proper mental and physical care. Researchers have stated that children 3 and under lose one IQ point for every month spent inside. Children adopted from Russia are also more likely than any other country to have fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Doctors visiting some of these institutions have even reported seeing toddlers sitting alone, rocking back and forth, staring blankly, or even banging their heads against walls. Children are often not provided with proper nutrition and are not given quality living and sleeping conditions.

If you ever want to read an eye-opening book, read The Russians by Hedrick Smith. He wrote it in the eighties but he goes into great detail about how Russia was a failing country. Their whole economy was geared toward the military. He said they would build 20 tanks and 19 of them had to be scrapped because the workmanship was so bad that they didn't work. He wrote it in the early eighties before Russia actually fell. Fascinating book.

He wrote it in the1970’s. Some of it was accurate, but some wasn’t

Russia is dying out and facing a demographic crisis.

My brother and his wife adopted a Russian baby from an orphanage back when that was still a thing in the early ‘00s. He was 7 months old and had rarely been held, most of his life until then was spent in a cage like crib. They put a huge amount of effort into the kid and I guess it paid off, he’s not a rapist or a murderer. He’s a weird kid though, I think he’s on the autism spectrum but his mother shopped him around to multiple doctors until she found one that told her he’s fine. They have high hopes for him, and they’re very supportive. Maybe he’ll be ok as a grown man. But I shudder to think what his life would have been life in Russia, he’d probably be sniffing glue in the train station, in the army at 17, and drunk and homeless by 30.

You leave the Russians alone!

Russian women make excellent whores and can pee on demand!

[quote] According to various estimates, 50 to 95 percent of children who grow up in Russian orphanages become drug addicts or alcoholics or commit suicide. Russian orphanages essentially produce children who suffer from Mowgli Syndrome — that is, they are ill-equipped to function in any capacity in society.

[quote]Neither is the situation particularly rosy regarding Russian adoptive parents. According to official government statistics,[bold] a child adopted by Russian parents is 39 times more likely to die than one adopted by parents in the West. [/bold]Of course, the causes of death include not only murder and involuntary manslaughter but also car accidents, illness and other factors. Unfortunately, even those statistics understate the problem because Russian courts often fail to initiate criminal proceedings when children are the victims of mistreatment or abuse.

[italic]Hunted: The War Against Gays in Russia[/italic]

W&W for R212!!😂

Maybe they'd have been better off if they hadn't got rid of the monarchy.

That must be humiliating for Russians that even the Moscow Times points out that they are deficient parents.

And that westerners take better care of their orphans than they do.

I will say this. Years ago I was researching a screenplay on Russian mail order scammer brides so I joined several sites to chat with Russian and Ukrainian women. All of them -- all of them, I repeat -- would ask me about if I drank and if so how often and wanted to know the minute details about my habits.

I was shocked by this. More so than my profession, income, hobbies, etc ... a rude awakening. Eventually they all told me that because I clicked "yes" when it said drink alcohol on the profile this made them think about the men in their country who guzzle vodka day and night and beat women and act afoul and in general bad news men.

Russians are miserable people who want Americans to wallow in a similar misery.

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I traveled to Russia quite extensively for work, and it was shocking how much alcoholism runs rampant in that country.

[quote] In Russia, a woman is killed by domestic violence every 40 minutes, according to data from the Russian government. But earlier this year, President Vladimir Putin signed a law that downgrades “moderate” violence, causing bruises or bleeding once a year, from a criminal offense to an administrative one.

It's certainly in Putin's best interest that he has a population of drunken, drug addicted, nationalistic citizens. It certainly helps him stay in power.

Ewww, Russia.

Russia looks like fucking hell on earth!

Drunk grandmama.

Just another day in the Russian village.

So many Russians seem to have an inbred look to them.

Exhibit B.

Chick passed out drunk

More Russians causing trouble in Thailand.

Many Thai people want to ban Russians from their country: “The Russian brought mafia, drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes to Thailand. Russian people are very rude, vain and often terribly drunk, barely speak English. The rich tourists will not come to Phuket, if Russians aren’t turned out.”

Drunk Russian man goes on rampage in Beijing, before getting arrested.

Drunk Russian drives into the airport.

Sums it up pretty well.

The women are every bit as classy as the men.

Another drunk Russian mother AND grandma with small children and vodka bottles strewn about. At least this one gets called out.

r28 i don't think some of them are getting their suit deposits back.

I don't think anybody can ever help Make Russia Great Again.

An inextricable part of their culture.

I worked with a bunch of Russians back in the 90s, including with Khodorkovsky who is now being shopped as a 'good guy' vs. bad guy Putin. They were both KGB, thieves, murderers and rivals. The most miserable people I ever met.

They are a sour, joyless people who have somehow not yet figured out that antagonizing other countries isn't going to help them make their pathetic situation any better.

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If you've ever been to Russia you'd know why they drink. Talk about a dreary fucking country.

Losers!!

This is a historical problem for them.

Russian despair.

Gentlemen...

How humiliating for Russia.

Dearest R80,

I believe that photo was taken in the unfortunate town of Greenwich, CT.

Forget Russia. Is anyone in the UK EVER sober?

Well this certainly explains a lot!

Russians, on average, all start drinking hard liquor at age 11.

Drunk in St. Petersburg.

Does Russia have AA?

AA would do no good in Russia.. they are pathetic and beyond hope

So, why aren't middle-aged Russian men doing gay porn?

What a depressing shit-hole!

Filthy, disgusting Russians!

R190, no one noticed that in your photo one drunk guy is waving a gun?

Which reminds me... Texas Senator Clueless John Cornyn, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate.

He was advised by twitter that he had retweeted, liked and followed bots belonging to FSB troll farms. So, rather than keeping that tidbit under his hat, he proudly retweeted it, proclaiming that this was a sign people had to beware of the media!

Huh? Methinks Cornyn couldn't pass the 'identify a giraffe' test. Either that, or sniffing the residue of petroleum off the bribes he's received for a dozen years from oil execs has fried his brain.

Drinking in public is common in Russia.

I guess when it is so enmeshed in your culture, how can you stop?

Looks like a great opportunity for some sneaky cock sucking!

I like it!

R395 those cocks haven't been washed in years.... Bon appetit!

sad.

Sad, R397? I think it's funny.

*hic*

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