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Drinking Away the Pain - Russia

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Uploaded by on Apr 11, 2008

Sept 2003
More and more Russians are turning to drink to help numb the pain of post-Soviet life.

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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  • judging by comments from Russians they are on denial

  • Effects of alcohol on a state's finances:

    + tax revenues;

    - reduced productivity, missed work days, accidental deaths, crime increase etc;

    - medical expenses for treating alcohol abusers;

    + reduced lifespan means less pensions to pay.

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  • 3:48 --"what is this...ohai."

  • @Aliea5c And stop trying to pin the blame on Marx and Lenin for how Russia is today. Post 1991 Capitalistic oligarchs have been doing nothing but selling out Russia to foreign markets and corrupting the economy inside out. The Russian people have been hit with a tidal wave of unprecedented freedom which they don't have a clue how to handle. No wonder it's fucking anarchy. In the USSR there was Guaranteed employment, free Healthcare and a home for every citizen. Capitalist Russia is shit.

  • @Aliea5c How the fuck would you know anything about Russia? You live in the US. Ever since the collapse of the USSR living standards and stability have plummeted into a black hole where as crime, poverty, corruption and racist gangs have skyrocketed. You ask any Russian of the old days and they'll tell you just the same. Even Stalin's USSR is preferable in many ways to todays Russia.

  • @adgw1423 I hear that poverty caused corruption among Russian officials throughout local government throughout the rural countryside of the Russian Federation has caused high unemployment and has caused s significant number of poverty stricken Russians throughout the rural countryside to drink themselves to death and or plain out just commit suicide.

  • @maurizius27 You're right Marxist-Leninist Othrodox Bolshevism has destroyed not only Russia's Traditional and or Classical culture but has ruined the souls and minds of Russians as well as others in other nations who had to live under this horror....Marxist-Leninistic Bolshevism.

  • Boris Yeltsin: Binge Grand Champ lol

  • @vuikenshtein LOL!

  • these are still part of the lingering results of marxist leninist communist scam philosophy which ravaged, pillaged and destroyed Russia and other nations and which is still alive and well in other forms today

  • @adgw1423 it is increasing since 2007 again

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