“Russians drink to get blind drunk”
My experience is that upon sitting down for dinner in a russian restaurant, a pitcher of vodka appears in the middle of the table. I did not try to keep up. But nobody got “blind drunk”
I was with professionals so maybe it was class related.
I do not have first hand knowledge of any other drinking habits, but i did not see any pathologies that did not have direvt comparisons in the US.
In the US we have a drinking age. Depending on the state it’s either 18 or 21. No such thing exists in Russia.