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.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
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? :-)))
Now that's a bureaucracy.
Now that is a statist mouthful. Pat Buchanan would be proud.
Absolut, product of Sweden.
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Vodka makes Russia work
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Vodka makes Bigg Red silly.
Everyone knows vodka originated in Poland, and then the Ruskies Stoli'ed it...
Poland invented it ~ Russia drowned in it.
LOLOLOLOL
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:).
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:).
Read the whole article - the historian working on purchase order of the Institute.
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