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Vodka makes Russia work
STLtoday ^ | 05/15/2006 | Joseph Tartakovsky

Posted on 05/15/2006 1:28:49 PM PDT by lizol

Vodka makes Russia work

By Joseph Tartakovsky

05/15/2006

In the fall of 1977, the state vodka monopoly of the Polish People's Republic filed suit in an international trade court claiming that vodka had first been distilled in Poland. For this reason, it argued, only Polish firms had the right to sell the clear alcohol in foreign markets under the name "vodka."

An incredulous Soviet Ministry of Trade initially ignored this as a joke. But it was a particularly pernicious joke, touching the tender parts of the Russian soul, not to mention Warsaw Pact solidarity, so the ministry grudgingly asked the Higher Scientific Research Institute of the Fermentation Products Division of the Central Department of Distilling of the Ministry of the Food Industry of the USSR to investigate.

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TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: batingx5254; poland; russia; vodka

1 posted on 05/15/2006 1:28:50 PM PDT by lizol
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To: lizol

OK, so now I know where all those Russo - Polish tensions come from.

It's all about the answer to the fundamental question - who invented vodka? :-)))


2 posted on 05/15/2006 1:30:13 PM PDT by lizol (Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
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To: Hoodat; redgirlinabluestate; Rushmore Rocks; Jack Black; peter the great; opocno; gadrael; ...
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3 posted on 05/15/2006 1:30:40 PM PDT by lizol (Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
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To: lizol
Higher Scientific Research Institute of the Fermentation Products Division of the Central Department of Distilling of the Ministry of the Food Industry of the USSR

Now that's a bureaucracy.

4 posted on 05/15/2006 1:33:18 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (FR's most controversial FReeper)
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To: Toddsterpatriot; Mase; expat_panama; LowCountryJoe
Higher Scientific Research Institute of the Fermentation Products Division of the Central Department of Distilling of the Ministry of the Food Industry of the USSR

Now that is a statist mouthful. Pat Buchanan would be proud.

5 posted on 05/15/2006 1:35:07 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: lizol

Absolut, product of Sweden.


6 posted on 05/15/2006 1:51:40 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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7 posted on 05/15/2006 1:57:59 PM PDT by martin_fierro (*hic*)
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To: lizol
Poland's favorite beverages still come from Georgia though (Even their defence minister says so):


8 posted on 05/15/2006 2:05:14 PM PDT by x5452
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To: lizol

Vodka makes Russia work

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Vodka makes Bigg Red silly.


9 posted on 05/15/2006 2:06:52 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Never trust Democrats with national security.)
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To: lizol; Charles Henrickson; martin_fierro
It's all about the answer to the fundamental question - who invented vodka?

Everyone knows vodka originated in Poland, and then the Ruskies Stoli'ed it...

10 posted on 05/15/2006 2:26:57 PM PDT by mikrofon (But then who stole the kiszka?)
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To: lizol

Poland invented it ~ Russia drowned in it.


11 posted on 05/15/2006 5:40:59 PM PDT by Sender (“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.” – Old Chinese proverb)
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To: martin_fierro

LOLOLOLOL


12 posted on 05/15/2006 9:05:43 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (FR's most controversial FReeper)
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To: lizol

The task fell to a historian named William Pokhlebkin. After years of painstaking research, he concluded that vodka was probably first distilled in a Moscow monastery between 1440 and 1478, decades before its alleged appearance in Poland. ==

Poland stole vodka design:).


13 posted on 05/16/2006 12:28:27 AM PDT by RusIvan
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To: RusIvan
Well, if "Higher Scientific Research Institute of the Fermentation Products Division of the Central Department of Distilling of the Ministry of the Food Industry of the USSR" itself said so - there is no way, and it must be true. :-)))
14 posted on 05/16/2006 3:03:08 AM PDT by lizol (Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
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To: lizol

Well, if "Higher Scientific Research Institute of the Fermentation Products Division of the Central Department of Distilling of the Ministry of the Food Industry of the USSR" itself said so - there is no way, and it must be true. :-)))===

It is historian Willam Pokheblkin said that Russia has a proority in design of Vodka. But Poland pretend to against. SO Poland stole the design in 16 century:).


15 posted on 05/16/2006 6:30:10 AM PDT by RusIvan
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To: RusIvan

Read the whole article - the historian working on purchase order of the Institute.


16 posted on 05/16/2006 6:36:17 AM PDT by lizol (Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
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