Posted on 06/09/2025 1:32:31 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Production of vodka in Russia has plummetted by more than 13%, according to the latest data. The dip occurred between January and May as the country also deals with a shortage of potatoes. On May 14, President Vladimir Putin admitted that Russians "don’t have enough potatoes". Figures suggest that, in the first few months of 2025, the price of the crop surged by 52%, while the overall harvest dropped by 12%.
In the first five months of 2025, Armenia exported nearly twice as many potatoes to Russia as it did during the first half of 2024, and almost 17 times more than during the same period in 2023, the the country's Ministry of Economy told Russian news service TASS. Now, the Federal Service for the Control of Alcohol and Tobacco Markets, Rosalkogoltobakkontrol, has reported that Vodka production fell by 13.2%, to 25million.
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Putin really stepped in it this time!
It’s all over for him now number 3,653,275.
Now if cigarettes and turnips go up in price there will be rioting in the streets.
They’re importing potatoes....no problem...
That’s what made Khrushchev lose his job.
Armenian potato stronk!
We’re not making potato salad....we’re making booze...
Oh look. Another British Tabloid pushing this crap.
What a shock.
We should tell them they can also eat them, in addition to drinking them. Great fries.
Stage 8 potato cancer.
He's all done now.
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Stage 8 potato cancer.”
I saw the disastrous effects of this situation in Russia in the 1990s. I saw it in orphanages — they were full of children with spina bifida, a spinal cord hernia that occurs in the fetus before birth due to a lack of vitamins and other nutrients. These unfortunate children did not know how to walk, talk, or control their bowels. The mothers who gave them up were not only starving, but also unable to eat a balanced diet. The terrible fate of these children was to lie in their cots all their short lives, looking at the ceiling and suffering constant headaches.
Ten years later, children with spina bifida practically disappeared from orphanages, or have at least become a rarity. I asked a doctor specializing in this disease how to explain the decrease in the number of patients affected by this disease. The doctor answered: “[Mothers] started to eat normally. That’s the whole secret.”
When potatoes become more expensive, people do not stop buying them. After all, they need something to replace pasta. But they will stop buying fish and greens to eat with them, leading to malnutrition that will cause irreparable harm to Russian culture, education and health care for decades.
Over a million dead Russian soldiers stopped buying vodka. It’s not surprising the production is down matching demand.
Why worry about Vodka?
I personally have only tasted Vodka twice in my life and I don’t miss it.
You’ll live without it.
Exactly.
However, it is apparent that you have developed an obsession. Some would call it a "one
track mind". Maybe for the sake of your mental health you should consider a new hobby.
Do me a favor. Take a walk outside today. Look at the sky. Smell the flowers. Give a whistle
to the chirping birds. Say hello to those you meet. Enjoy God's good earth. Get your mind
right. Be happy! You'll thank me. You're certainly most welcome!
The Polish will fill in that quantity of ‘missing vodka’, w/o breaking a sweat.
Well there are apparently up to one million dead or injured Russian Soldiers so the Motherland should manage OK with the dropped Vodka output.
Ok. Now do Kazan.
No potato water, what a shame
Putin master strategist, master economist, and now master distiller 😂
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