Chapter Seventy-Four: The Sorrow of the Commoners

Takahashi has not only heard of the fact that Russians like to drink, but has also seen it with his own eyes.

You know, in the first place, in order to bring back all the equipment of the Moscow Computer Center from Moscow. The bribes spent alone were more than four wagons.

And the current Russian government, on the surface, says that excessive drinking is harmful to health and affects production and work, but in fact, because it is profitable, the tax has even reached 300 percent.

And Russia's economy, a growth rate of one percent is already worth celebrating, and most of the time it is negative.

This is not because the Russians are lazy, or intellectually retarded.

Rather, as a country where almost all of its land is located in the cold zone, it is not inherently suitable for industrial production under a capitalist economy.

Why?

Because of the cold weather, all kinds of maintenance costs and production costs are higher.

Even if the whole world accepts industrial products produced in Russia, instead of continuing the trade embargo on it.

The cost of production in Russia is also much higher than in the rest of the world.

In the mode of production for profit, there is certainly no money to be made.

In addition to selling industrial products, Russia can only sell resources, but these resources are almost snatched up by the former Soviet executives and the current tycoons.

In other words, a certain city may have a large mineral deposit and has been extracting it, but the wealth from mining has nothing to do with the people of the city.

As a result, unemployment in Russia is high.

Many people who can't get on can even go to Siberia to grow potatoes to live.

Of course, in fact, growing potatoes is a farm.

However, the profits of agricultural products are very small compared to industrial products.

Can the economy develop rapidly by engaging in agriculture?

No way!

And a large number of young people who may not be very fond of drinking, but still have dreams of playing the accordion and singing on the lawn of the university.

Because of the loss of a vigorous and upward development of the motherland, even if there are dreams and ambitions, there is no place to realize, and they fall into a kind of disillusioned despair.

For people who have lost hope in life, there are two options, one is to anesthetize their soul through religion, and the other is to numb their body with various alcohols and chemicals.

Some people choose to believe in religion, while others become addicted to sleep.

Compared to them, Vladimir considers himself lucky.

However, although he was lucky to be grounded, he still couldn't let go of those old brothers.

His current salary is about 10,000 yuan a month.

Although there is no concept of 10,000 yuan households for 2,000 years.

But counting his year-end bonus for nearly 30 months every year, as well as the house built for him by the company, his fixed assets and cash holdings, there are millions of yuan.

Although this money is not very rich in the United States, it is already considered a very rich man in Russia now.

However, he used the money to sponsor the old brothers to fulfill the dreams they had. In their hands, it will only become an empty bottle.

This time, he just wanted to reinvigorate his old friends.

But they were drunk and said, "The Soviet Union is dead, what dreams are there?" ”

In a fit of rage, he never gave them sponsorship again.

He thought that then they would be sober if they couldn't afford to buy alcohol.

But where would he have thought that people who could not afford to drink in Russia could already be lined up long ago.

People who can't afford to drink alcohol drink other things that contain alcohol, such as ...... Body soap.

There are two types of bath gels, one is non-alcoholic, and this one is more sold in China. The other is alcoholic, and this is more common in Russia.

Although bath gel contains alcohol, it is not alcohol, and it is not subject to a tax of several hundred percent.

Therefore, the price is relatively cheap.

So, something amazing will happen in Russia.

That is, every day, the amount of bath liquid consumed in Russia is enough for all Russians, and the average number of baths is three times.

In fact, Russians, relatively speaking, are not very fond of bathing.

You know, in colder places, taking a bath is not a very pleasant thing.

Don't think that bathing in an open-air bath with hot water underneath, cold wind, and even snowflakes on top of the hot water is a pleasant thing to do.

It's okay once or twice, but if you keep washing it like this, it's strange if you don't wash it out of rheumatism.

And those bath gels that were consumed were naturally drunk.

Of course, there are two types of alcohol in bath gel, one is drinkable ethanol, and the other is methanol, or impure ethanol containing methanol prepared by industrial methods.

A small intake of methanol can lead to blindness and blindness.

In the early days of China's reform and opening up, the liquor market was mixed, and there were many incidents of industrial alcohol passing off as drinking liquor, resulting in the blindness of many innocent people.

The Russians, however, have nothing to fear from this.

They have a spirit similar to Shennong's tasting of herbs, and after several sacrifices, they finally know what brand of bath liquid can be drunk and what brand of bath liquid can be drunk.

The viscous appearance of the bath gel is not easy to drink the first sip to be honest.

However, even if you get used to it, you will feel that the flavor is good.

This may be like some local specialty, such as the Inuit sucking the entrails of rotting seabirds from their chrysanthemums.

Get used to it, and it's not so hard to accept.

Even...... It contains some ingredients that are harmful to the human body and can cause poisoning. On the contrary, it will give people an alternative experience.

It's like in ancient Chinese alchemy, which likes to put lead.

Because of mild lead poisoning, it does have a calming ingredient ingredient.

And too much intake can indeed make people drive west.

As a result, it has become a very sick way of eating.

The Russians are the same, they are used to drinking bath gel, but they feel that normal wine is not good.

Even if there are not one or two people who have a problem drinking, and there are not many people who die after drinking the wrong brand or the wrong model, they are not afraid.

Because they have no hope, because they have no hope for life.

It's a big deal.

It's better to die easily than to live like this.

So, they began to play all kinds of lives.

When they are not drunk, they dare to fight the brown bear, and after drinking too much, they even dare to kick the brown bear as a ball.

People in this environment may not feel anything.

But......

Vladimir, an outsider, can't stand it anymore.

He wants old friends to cheer up!

Instead of drinking blind to death, or getting drunk and freezing to death on the side of the road!