Extremely high' number of the '200,000' Russian troop deaths in Ukraine war are linked to alcohol abuse

MAILONLINE ^ | 2 April 2023 | By FFION HAF

[adorno]

That should give the Ukrainians an idea...

Make alcoholic drinks available all along the battle lines where the Russians are sure to attack. Two bottles per Russian soldier. War could end in a matter of days or weeks.

Make sure the bottles are labeled with Putin’s face and a battle cry of ‘Long live Putin’.

[Salohcin]

Actually no. Casualties means “killed and wounded.”

[alexander_busek]

Actually no. Casualties means “killed and wounded.”

According to official records, most American casualties in the Civil War were due to diarrhœa. So if disease can be responsible for "casualties," then so can acute alcohol poisoning.

Regards,

[xp38]

Drunk on a battlefield is no way to go through a war son

[jmacusa]

Alcoholism has been a rampant problem in Russia for quite some time. Especially since the fall of the old Soviet regime and the opening to it from the West. Beer, something largely not consumed in the old days is now readily available and Russians have taken to it big time. There's also no drinking age in Russia. As soon as you can stand on two feet and hold a bottle you're good to go.

[jmacusa]

Viktor Blenko, the Russian pilot who defected to the West along with his MiG 29 Foxbat wrote about this in his autobiography “MiG Pilot'' He described as a young man working in a steel mill where if any work was done it wasn't more than an hour or two and then his boss would give him a few rubles and tell him "Lets put a little color in the day'' and they'd all spend the rest of their shift getting drunk. He also told of how when he was stationed at an airbase it was common practice for the mechanics to drain the alcohol coolant used for the jet engines and get drunk on that.

[dennisw]

That should give the Ukrainians an idea...
Make alcoholic drinks available all along the battle lines where the Russians are sure to attack. Two bottles per Russian soldier. War could end in a matter of days or weeks.
Make sure the bottles are labeled with Putin’s face and a battle cry of ‘Long live Putin’.

Putin's mug on the vodka bottles. And call the vodka Uncle Vlad's Best   ----  Guaranteed to be Top Shelf!

[Paal Gulli]

During their war in Afghanistan, a lot of Soviet equipment used grain alcohol for coolant (in electronics) and hydraulic fluid. Pour it in a helmet, add a handful of raisins, leave it sitting in the sun a few days, then strain it through a loaf of bread, and it’s Martini-o’clock.

So there were endemic equipment availability problems for lack of coolant/hydraulic fluid.

[ansel12]

I watched that Russian movie about the women’s Battalion in WWI last night.

The germans did keep the Russians supplied with booze and in return they would not fight.

The movie is good and called both Battalion or original title: Batalion 2015
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4187590/

[dangus]

“!=” means “not equal.”

[Salohcin]

Never saw that notation before. Is it from computer programming? I usually use ≠ for not equals.

[absalom01]

C and Unix C shell.

[alexander_busek]

Alcoholism has been a rampant problem in Russia for quite some time.

And in a related story:

"The Chinese Like Eating Rice!"

Film at 11.

Regards,