Not antifreeze, but brake fluid. Antifreeze is poisonous [glycol-based], but the brake fluid there was alcohol-based since times immemorial. And as for colognes - it is gospel truth. By law the alcohol in pharmaceutical products in USSR could not be denatured, and colognes were sold in pharmacies. Every morning I used to go to work past a [not yet opened] pharmacy and on its steps by the door there would always be the same group of heavy duty "alcanauts" waiting for it to open. Colognes were cheaper than vodka, and the wood paint I taught the muscovites to distill was at least 10 times cheaper.
I understand-had them mixed up
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Have you met Victor Belenko? He sure has some funny stories about coming to the US.