If Russians stop drinking or switch to drinking in normal amounts at normal hours or occasions, and then the world is quickly a more dangerous place.
A sober Russian surrounded by sober Russians can produce anything including the most dangerous engines of war. Their language is rich, their literature is richer still, their philosophies are richer yet, their Orthodox Christian faith is richer beyond imagining.
“The best in Russia is very good, and sometimes it is the best in the world.” - Thomas T. Hammond, 1958
Give a Russian a quarter acre garden and he will survive. Give a Russian heavy industry and we already know the result. Ignore the Russian at your peril.
Add in some of the most brilliant mathematicians and physicists the world has known.
Maybe it is good the Russians like to party. Then, again, it has been said they are too much like us: loud, boisterous, friendly.
Without barriers, where does the political animosity come from................