I’ve got this covered.
Posted on 07/20/2022 10:40:16 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
An illegal “vodka pipeline” has been discovered by a group of patrolling Ukrainian border officials near the southeastern city of Podilsk.
According to the Ukrainian government, the pipeline was used to transport bootleg alcohol from Ukraine into Moldova.
“Three hundred meters of polyethlene pipe stretched from the state border underground in the direction of the private home of a 32-year-old citizen of Ukraine,” the Ukrainian government said in a statement.
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The recently discovered vodka highway is part of a network of pipelines built under the former Soviet Union that was built to transport cheap Russian vodka out of the country and into neighbouring states to sell for a large profit.
A two-mile pipeline was found in 2004 between Belarus and Lithuania, and a one-mile line was discovered four years later between Russia and Estonia. The most recent discovery came in 2013 when a line was found running through Kazakhstan into Kyrgyzstan.
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OK, the first thing I checked for was to see if this was the Bee.
Same.
Now we know why Russia wants to take over Ukraine.
I was gonna do this idea. Except I was gonna do an underground sushi conveyor belt.
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Cheap Russian vodka tastes like cheap Russian diesel.
I’ve got this covered.
Why? Sushi = beach scraps! ;-)
When I was in the army, I was able to go on a tour of East Berlin in 1983. One of the guys on the tour bought a bottle of Russian vodka that was almost pure alcohol. I tried a capful. I remember it thinking this is what hot broken glass must taste like.
Where there’s a still, there’s a way.
Don’t you mean 80 Proof?
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