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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They already paid for it. How does this hurt Russia? Jumping on the ‘protesting for the sake of protesting’ bandwagon is foolish.
And they wanted to change the name of French fries to something else. Stupid.
Same ones that will soon be posting their social media profile pic in a ‘I stand with Ukraine’ frame. So many are acting like this is a spectator sport. It’s all pretty ridiculous and even nauseating.
Except for anyone speaking out against forced injections, and "Show us your papers" passports.
Then it's jail the Pastors, and protest organizers, beat the peaceful protesters, seize the trucks, break the truckers' windows, take their pets and threaten to euthanize them, take their children, tear gas people, arrest live streamers, shoot a reporter with a tear gas canister, trample a man and an older woman on a mobility scooter, with horses, freeze the bank accounts, eh Canada? 🙄
Plus, Russian vodka companies are not govt owned, are they?
Are they out to hurt Russian citizens?. Their beef should be with the Russian govt. not the people.
Isn’t Tobascoski in western Ruskie-Landia?
Let’s go for it!!!
"Oh, the humanity!"
I’ll help, by God!
I’ll pi** it away!
Now this IS FAKE NEWS.
Tito’s?
Must be all the faggot bars.
I will do that for them, for a small cost of course.
That’s a good one. Another I like is simply called Texas vodka, available at Trader Joe’s.
During WWI hamburgers became liberty burgers, sauerkraut became liberty cabbage and dachshunds became badger hounds.
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That doesn’t help anything! Not reordering - now that will have an impact.
Retards. They probably don’t even know of a Russian vodka. Don’t try to tell me Stolichnaya. Latvia is a NATO member.
I was waiting for that one.
Wasting perfectly good alcohol is going to seem like such a horrifyingly dumb thing to have done when the city is burning and you have a leg wound turning septic.
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