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minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-21 year agoWasn’t it Lenin who banned vodka, then Stalin started a state run vodka company after he took over? Or did Lenin just reinforce the ban?
minus-squarelntl@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·1 year agothe royal family owned all the vodka companies/manufacturing before the revolution. it’s always been a tool to fill state coffers
minus-squarePolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down5·1 year agoTsar Nicholas ordered prohibition in 1914. RSFSR retained it after revolution until it was abolished in 1925.
Wasn’t it Lenin who banned vodka, then Stalin started a state run vodka company after he took over? Or did Lenin just reinforce the ban?
the royal family owned all the vodka companies/manufacturing before the revolution. it’s always been a tool to fill state coffers
Tsar Nicholas ordered prohibition in 1914. RSFSR retained it after revolution until it was abolished in 1925.