patrick.net

"People destroyed drinking establishments, breweries and wineries, refused free vodka. The people demanded that "the taverns be closed and that they not be seduced". The tsarist government dealt with the rebels in the cruelest manner. The "drinking cases" landed 111 thousand peasants in prisons, about 800 were brutally beaten with sticks and exiled to Siberia...
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https://stolenhistory.net/threads/the-war-on-alcohol.5568/


Russian people were forcibly addicted to alcohol.