[pieceofthepuzzle]

Not good. Alcohol seems to be one of the things that helps ease the pain of socialism. Wonder how long the USSR would have lasted without Vodka?

[Netz]

The Soviets, like the Romanovs before them subsidized the production of Vodka to keep the people in a stupor. It worked very well.

Venezuela is just another in a long line of foolish governments trying to be a Utopian state. If they cannot even produce beer then they deserve to run out of toilet paper as well. Hey, that already happened!

Poor saps. When will they become a free-market Capitalist country again?