As a transportation hub in the Far East of Tsarist Russia, Ust-Kut has long-distance drivers from all over the country arriving here to deliver and distribute goods. And what is the place where the truckers gather? It's the same all over the world: where there are women and alcohol.

These truck drivers are highly nervous on the road, and only when they arrive at their destination can they breathe a sigh of relief, and the road is full of dangers and loneliness. It's hard to relax, can you relax?

Hurry up and drink some wine and find some women。。。。。。

Well. When it comes to drinking, the fact is that many truck drivers don't forget to drink two sips of vodka when driving, after all, there are no police in the wilderness. People also said that if you take such a dangerous road, you won't dare to drive on the road without drinking a little alcohol to suppress your fright!

We all know that Tsarist Russians love to drink, and according to surveys, about 30% of Tsarist Russian deaths are related to alcoholism. But in fact, Tsarist Russia was a country that did not like to drink before.

In Tsarist Russia during the Kievan Rus' era, people here only drank wine when they had children, won victories, and died, and at that time it was still very expensive mead, and it was enough to drink a little bit.

The first to bring alcoholic beverages to Tsarist Russia were Genoese merchants in 1428. However, the Russian government directly forbade Genoese merchants to sell wine to their own country, and Europe at that time called the Russians "people who did not like to drink".

By the time of Peter the Great, Tsarist Russia began to sell wine, and the reason for selling wine was ridiculous, 'don't make people laugh', at that time he wanted to follow the example of Europe to develop Tsarist Russia, and he had several friends who were Germanic, and they all loved to drink. So Peter the Great also began to drink and sell alcohol, but for this reason, I don't know what kind of dog the officials at that time scolded him。。。。。。

By the way, there was also a strange law at that time: if a woman dared to forcibly take her husband who was drinking from the tavern, she was to be whipped!

Including Catherine II (who has a leg with Wei Xiaobao is Catherine I) when the state had no money, people began to support the state to produce and sell wine, and the state monopolized the market for selling wine at that time.

Between 1858 and 1859 there was an uprising in Tsarist Russia, against the sale of liquor!

By the end of World War II, the number of alcoholics in Tsarist Russia had increased significantly, both men and women. At that time, it was the former Soviet period, and the wine was still produced and sold by the state, but at least the quality was guaranteed, and later the former Soviet Union disintegrated, and private companies could finally make wine and sell it, but there were problems with the quality, and there were often news reports of drinking fake wine in Tsarist Russia.

In fact, the most beautiful tourist attraction in the Far East is also related to the drinking of Tsarist Russians, that is, the 'vodka beach' in Vladivostok.

In the former Soviet era, the locals thought that it was strange and troublesome to dispose of the old wine bottles, so they simply broke them all and threw them into the sea, anyway, there were few people there, and it was okay to throw glass shards into the sea. At that time, a few kilometers of beach over there were piled up with shards of glass bottles, and no tourists would travel to that place at all.

But after a long time of washing by the sea, those glass shards turned into colorful glass pebbles, and the beauty of the entire beach was abnormal, and it immediately became a local tourist attraction, and countless tourists travel there every year, becoming a must-visit Internet celebrity check-in mecca when going to Vladivostok. It's also kind of black humor.

Valery and Sergey took Yang Meng to a bar called 'Little Cup' in Ust-Kut. This is known as the best bar in Ust-Kut. God knows what it means for this old man and his son-in-law to come to such a place together。。。。。。

When I arrived at the bar, a few Tsarist men came out, and the staggering walk didn't stop drinking. As a result, after seeing Yang Meng and the others, one of them suddenly ran to the telephone pole on the side of the road, hugged the telephone pole and did not let go, and also yelled at Yang Meng and the others, not knowing what to say.

Yang Meng was confused and asked Sergei what this meant?

Sergei couldn't cry or laugh either, and after saying a few words to the man, the drunk man looked Yang Meng up and down, and then left scolding amid the laughter of his companions.

"What's going on?" Yang Meng asked puzzled.

Sergei explained: "Well, you know that we Russians are very good at drinking, right? If the police encounter an alcoholic wandering on the road, they will take them to a drunkard. You wore a robe and a hat, and he thought it was a policeman. So hold on to the telephone pole to prove that you are not drunk yet. ”

Yang Meng smiled bitterly: "It should be a good thing to take this back to sober up, right? ”

After Valery understood what Yang Meng meant, there was also a long list of Tsarist Russian, Sergei explained: "Valery said just now that our police here are not as civilized as the police in the Han Kingdom, Valery was caught in the alcohol rehab last time and beaten up, not to mention, the wallet on his body is gone." The angry Valery no longer repaired things for the people of the Ust-Kut police station. ”

Yang Meng was dumbfounded: "Valery was still drunk and caught in the drinking center?"

Sergei said: "In fact, almost all of the people who drink heavily in Tsarist Russia are poor and destitute people, and now drinking for so long is ultimately caused by economic depression. There is a saying on our side: during the period of the former Soviet Union, people loved to drink but did not drink heavily, and the beginning of alcoholism was after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union. In addition, we are here in the Far East, and the winter is too long, so what can we do but drink? It turns out that we don't have a good time, so we often drink, what is that word called? Drink to kill our sorrows? Later, life got better, so now drinking is not like the original way of drinking, if you are labeled as an alcoholic, it will be troublesome. ”

Elena is Valery's youngest daughter, the one in Manchuria.

"What does the alcoholic label mean?" asked Yang Meng puzzled.

Sergei explained: "There are two kinds of people who drink alcohol here, one is to drink a little meaning, and the other is to drink to death whenever they touch alcohol, and they are drunk every day. The latter is an 'alcoholic', and if he is labeled as such, people will avoid him, after all, you don't want to work with someone who gets drunk every day, do you?"

Yang Meng shook his head and said, "To be honest, I don't like your vodka, it's not delicious!"

Sergei said: "What is the vodka doing to get drunk and taste so good?"

“。。。。。。。 You've won!" Yang Meng gave a thumbs up.

When he was about to enter the bar, Yang Meng asked another question: "Sergey, you said you don't want to be labeled as an alcoholic, but I saw at least twenty bottles of vodka in Valery's house!"

"Oh, he lives in the suburbs, and it's inconvenient to go into the city to buy it, so he buys a few boxes at a time, and as long as he controls the amount, he is not considered an alcoholic. Sergey explained.

"How much is that controlled?" Yang Meng asked curiously.

"Well, don't drink more than one bottle. Sergei said: "We drink at night, and when we are done, we go to bed." It doesn't interfere with work and nothing else, as long as it's not drunk during the day, it's fine!"

“。。。。。。 Yang Meng felt scared when he heard it, he suddenly remembered a stupid question on the TV station, so he grinned: "Sergey, are you and Valery living happily?"

Sergei threw this question to Valery, and after listening to his answer, he said: "Valery said that there is a great writer named Tolstoy in our Tsarist Russia, and he said that happy families are all similar, and unhappy families have their own misfortunes. For him, happiness is really simple, as long as he has vodka every night and sleeps comfortably. ”

"So what if not?" Yang Meng asked.

Valery said: "If you don't have vodka, then why live?" Sergey replied: "Okay, go in and have a good drink, this is the place where our truck drivers come most often." Let me introduce you to your friends, there are many of them who can run the Magadan line, and they will help you if you have trouble on the way. Rest assured, no one who can drink here is an alcoholic. With that, the three of them entered the bar.

This bar should not be called a bar in the Han Kingdom, but should be called a 'restaurant', all of which are small square tables with tablecloths on the tables, and four chairs on the sides of each table, all of which are neatly arranged there; the walls on all sides are covered with old photographs, and a long bar counter can be seen to be like a bar: behind the bar is full of wine. But unlike other bars, there are no 'bar stools' at the bar, and this is no place to sit at the bar and drink----- with old music playing in the jukebox, a strong pre-Soviet style.

There are a lot of people here, both men and women, and it is extremely noisy, and it has a fight with the taverns of the Han Kingdom. Valery and Sergey were obviously familiar with the fat proprietress and sat down at a table after saying hello to the proprietress A waiter in an apron came running to bring chocolates, pickled cucumbers, and vodka, and then there was no more.

Yang Meng blinked: "You guys just drink like this?"

"Otherwise, what else do you need?" Sergey looked around and said, "Yes, many friends are here today." After speaking, he saw Sergei and them raise their hands one by one to greet each other: "I'll introduce you to you later, but 。。。。。。 How much do you drink? If they're going to toast you, you have to drink it. ”

"Why?" Yang Meng asked puzzled.

Sergei explained: "In our case, if someone toasts you or not, it means the same thing as you say to someone the middle finger in the face, do you want to compare the middle finger to their face here?"

Yang Meng looked around: "Sergei, I just saw that many people here are drinking and can't find the north, so you still say that you can't find alcoholics here?"

"Of course!" said Sergei a little smugly, "alcoholics don't come here------ they can't afford to come!"

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