Posted on 02/26/2022 11:03:59 AM PST by Morgana
The protests are pouring in.
Hundreds of liquor stores and bars across the U.S. and Canada are removing Russian vodka and other Russian-made alcoholic beverages from their shelves in protest of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
After weeks of warnings from Western leaders, Russia unleashed a three-pronged assault of Ukraine from the north, east and south on Thursday, in an attack that threatened to upend Europe's post-Cold War order.
Liquor stores in the provinces of Manitoba and Newfoundland said they were removing Russian spirits, while Ontario, Canada's most populous province, also directed the Liquor Control Board Of Ontario to withdraw all Russian products. Meanwhile, in the U.S., videos circulated on social media of bars and liquor stores emptying their Russian vodka and removing bottles from their shelves in a show of solidarity with Ukraine.
'Ontario joins Canada's allies in condemning the Russian government's act of aggression against the Ukrainian people and we strongly support the federal government's efforts to sanction the Russian government,' Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy said in a statement.
'The people of Ontario will always stand against tyranny and oppression.'
More than 700 stores across the province will remove Russian-imported products, which include Stoli Vodka, Russian Standard Original Vodka, Beluga Noble Russian Vodka, Karkov Vodka and Zyr Vodka. Smirnoff, while founded in Moscow, is owned and produced by U.K. company Diageo.
Canada imported C$4.8 million (US$3.78 million) worth of alcoholic beverages from Russia in 2021, according to Statistics Canada (Statscan) data. That is down 23.8 percent from C$6.3 million in 2020. Vodka is the second most popular spirit among Canadian consumers after whiskey, Statscan said.
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How about dumping Canadian whiskey?
What about Tequila?
You have to remember that a good percentage of the Canadian mouthbreathers still keep their money in Princess Justine Castreau's banks...
Agree. Silly.
This is the Russian oligarchs’ fiasco.
Canada?
It is to laugh.
All Canadian booze should be boycotted because their Cossacks knock down old people in the streets.
Shut yo mouf! LOL.
and the Daily Mail goes full retard.
I'm pretty sure Russia produces V-8 juice, too, and various bottled hot sauces.
I'll get rid of those for these people, too, along with the wodka.
Wow - new level of sit on your ass slackvism. :)
Because we’re so much better than Russia 🤪
It's weird when you don't have disembodied Voices telling you what to think about the day's happenings, isn't it?
For example, I don't have disembodied Voices telling me that the quaxxccines are "safe and effective"...
Free Republic is being overrun by the Deep State.
Every two minutes the deep state posts another Daily Mail story.
Head to your bomb shelters Freepers....
oh WOW~
that’s gonna defeat the entire Russian military,
AH wishes he’d thought of buying a few less bottles of Russian vodka! he might have won the war then.... same logic....ha!
Bombshelters,,
.
Where’s Senator Blutoski
When You Need him?
Don’t dump! Bring to my yard and leave by the barn! Send private message for detailed instructions. Thnx
Ketel One and Grey Goose are smooth.
Crater Lake vodka is the best vodka, hands down.
Reminds me of people dumping French wine back when they wouldn’t let our military jets go into their airspace to bomb Iraq or whoever.
Agree, bars already paid for it. So just throwing money down the drain.
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