Secrets of Russian vodka. The era of Joseph Stalin. Nikishin A.

The book “The Secrets of Russian Vodka. The era of Joseph Stalin ”is not so much about the gastronomic addictions of the Generalissimo, but about that part of the history of Russian vodka, which came during his reign.

under Stalin, the dry law of 1914 was canceled and the dry law was introduced to the United States, repeating Russian mistakes. Alcohol was taken from the American people, and in the USSR it was returned. Under Stalin, they lost the legendary vodka “Smirnov” (in 1933 it became American), but they created the Soviet “metropolitan.”

vodka during the reign of Stalin participated in the “Winter War” with Finland and in the war with Nazi Germany And shortly before his death, vodka began to export to Europe and America.

and much of something else was with vodka for thirty years of Stalin's rule. A small but very important episode in her 500-year history.