Fictional drunkenness in Russia, which is a shame to believe

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Drunkenness and alcoholism in Russia were as rare as snowfall in Europe. Russian rudeness is self-defense against an unjust world. Social parasites are compulsively trying to impose the myth that the Slavs have always been drunkards and boors. But there is a fact that the Russian Empire until 1917 was the most sober country in the world …

Drunkenness

Apologists for the idea of total drunkenness in Russia like to refer to the fact that in the entire array of Russian literature from Pushkin to the present day there is not a single work in which there is no description of the scene of drunkenness. That is, there are numerous written confirmations that the Russian people drank, drinks and will drink. But there are equally strong counterarguments against this argument.

Flemish painting

To get acquainted with the works of Flemish painters over the past 600 years, it is not necessary to go to the Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam or the Rembrandt Museum in Amsterdam. It is enough to take a walk around the Hermitage to make sure that for 600 years the favorite theme of Flemish landscape painters has been the depiction of winter landscapes of snow-covered fields and canals. From which - by analogy with the literary description of Russian drunkenness - we can conclude that the ancient Flemings spent their winters sledding and playing snowballs. At the same time, not a single picture contains an image of a device for walking in the snow - skis. There are stilts, there are wooden "klomps" shoes, but skis are unknown to the Flemings. It is strange that during such winters they had no need for such a tool. It is also strange that the neighbors - the British, French and Germans - do not have so many snow pictures in their paintings.

Modern Flemish occupies the southern regions of the Netherlands and the northern regions of Belgium. In 1848, the Royal Meteorological Institute KNMI was established in the Netherlands, which from the day of its foundation to the present day meticulously collects materials on all weather phenomena. And in the statistics of this institution for 100 yearsXX century snow in the Netherlands is mentioned 23 times.

We look at Belgium. The Belgian counterpart of the Netherlands Institute for the twentieth century reports 101 cases of snowfall. Of these, 78 are in the sparsely populated highlands of the Ardennes, which are still covered with impenetrable forests to this day. And the snow in the flat area, which is depicted by painters - again 23 times.

It is likely that in the days when Europe was not yet covered with a constant orange cloud of waste from the operation of internal combustion engines, the weather conditions were somewhat different.

Poison over the world

Nevertheless, the conclusion suggests itself that the spectacle of snow falling from the sky was so rare for Flemish painters that they threw everything and rushed into the street in order to have time to capture the phenomenon that struck their imagination. Since a Fleming observed such a phenomenon in his entire life 2-3 times at most.

Is it not this principle that explains the scenes of drunkenness in Russian literature? The phenomenon of drunkenness so amazed the imagination of a writer or poet that he could not refrain from including a description of this phenomenon in his work. So, by analogy with Flemish painting, the explanation of Russian drunkenness by Russian literature is a weak argument.

Excise tax

Excise taxes on fuel, tobacco and alcohol are the lifesaver of the budget of any capitalist country. And Russia-USSR-RF does not stand out from the general row. But in Russia, the excise tax on alcohol was set at a professional and effective level that was inconceivable for Europe. Until the 19th century, pepper, silk, silver and alcohol were the only antiseptics known to mankind, of which only alcohol was available to the general population. For this reason, it was alcohol that became the main target of tax excise taxes.

Alcohol excise tax - brings the state the highest income when compared with other taxes. And the tax rates on vodka are much higher than on other alcohol

Because of the vast territories, the central government in Russia was not able to send an excise collector under every door. Therefore, the collection of the excise tax on booze was organized brilliantly simply: in the center, they calculated the hypothetical volume of a person's drink, multiplied this volume by the number of souls living in the range of the enterprise for the production and sale of booze (tavern), and on the basis of these calculations they sent a tax collector the door of the inn. And the innkeeper was forced to pay the excise tax at the rate of this very imperfect and rough calculation. To collect the necessary funds, the authorities provided the innkeeper with force support in the form of soldiers, and thus the surrounding population was forced to carry excise money to the tavern regardless of the real need for alcohol. Buying alcohol at gunpoint.

The traditions of home brewing and cultural drinking were destroyed both in the European part of Russia and in Siberia with the massive appearance of taverns. The first tavern appeared in Moscow in 1552, after the capture of Kazan. Ivan the Terrible adopted this practice from the Tatars. However, unlike Tatar drinking establishments, no appetizer was served in Russian taverns - only vodka. In the 40s of the 15th century, the commercial production of this drink began in Russia, which became the exclusive priority of the state.

And along with the description of scenes of drunkenness, we see in Russian literature descriptions of the total indebtedness of the population to the innkeepers. Only now the reason for this debt, obviously, was not a desire to get drunk, but the need to pay taxes. And if for the central government this was an effective way of filling the treasury, then the population, who fell into eternal bondage to the tavern collector, who collected taxes, really had only one means of relief: to get drunk and forget. By the way, who, according to the Bible, and according to N. V. Gogol, were the publicans-taverns?

It is interesting to note that a similar experience of levying a tax has now begun to be used by European countries in the field of excise taxes on fuel and energy. For example, the excise tax on electricity, which is the main type of household energy used by humans. A person can live by candlelight and cook on a splinter, but he is obliged to pay the state excise duty called "The fact of connecting to the power grid." That is, even with zero real electricity consumption, a person will still pay a significant amount for the fact that an electric wire from the network will be pulled to his house. European interpretation of the Russian way of levying alcohol excise tax. There are also taxes on the fact of owning a car, the fact of owning a radio / telephone wire / television wire - the resourcefulness of the European mind knows no limits. Although at the origins of all this lies precisely the Russian way of the ordeal of the sivukha.

Russian rudeness

For "ravalilshchikov" - justification number 1 for the betrayal of the Motherland.

In Europe, there is a saying that a European's favorite dish is a neighbor with an apple in his mouth, fried on a spit over a fire from his own furniture. The text from country to country may be different, but the meaning of European love for one's neighbor remains general and understandable. The absence of rudeness in Europe is explained by the fact that there were no Renaissance and Enlightenment eras in Russia, during which Europeans learned to show respect for the personality of another person and became tolerant.

We look at Russia. In the genetics of the Russian man there is a certain gene of fair equality, equality in the flock. This is the most effective way to survive on the planet in any conditions. Not one individual should survive, unable to continue the race due to loneliness, but the whole flock should survive. The fact that this gene exists is shown by the entire history of Russia: regardless of the circumstances, at the moment of any external danger, the Russian people rally into a single flock.

400 years ago, the Romanov clan came to rule the people, who were later replaced by the communists, and then it is generally unknown who. And all these 400 years of non-Russian rule, the Russian flock was split daily by the unfair distribution of benefits. Nowhere else on the continent is there and has not been such a division between rich and poor as in our land. Both in colonial Britain and in conquering France, there is also division, but at the same time there is no even the skills of being able to rally in a flock at the moment of external danger. Russia in this sense remains unique.

What happens to a person who has been racked by their psyche for 400 years? He snaps reflexively in an effort to protect himself. Hit a wild dog with a stick and you will run into a bite. For 400 years of daily breaking the traditional Russian foundations of justice within the pack, a Russian person has developed an intuitive aggressive attitude towards everything around him. Rudeness is the mildest possible form of reaction to any external phenomenon. Self-defense of oneself and one's identity from an unjust world. Every day, seeing the collapse of the cohesion of the pack due to the uneven distribution of livelihoods, we should be grateful to the rudeness for not rushing at each other with axes and knives. Although this process has already been launched and is gaining momentum on the example of Ukraine.

To stop both rudeness and mutual extermination, there is only one way: to rally the flock. It is possible to rally the flock in the face of external danger, which is what Putin is doing today. The image of the global enemy has been created and entrenched in the minds. However, this is a half-measure: it is impossible to keep the people in military tension forever, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Rudeness from this will not decrease. Whatever one may say, but it is necessary to break what has been flourishing in Russia for 400 years. Russian intellectuals headed by Academician Glazyev have prepared a plan of measures aimed at combating inequality of property in the Russian people. That is, there is a description of the beginning of the process. It is not known whether Putin has enough strength to give the green light to this case. But there is no other way. Until they stop stealing Rolls-Royces from the unemployed in Russia, we will be rude to each other.