Vodka is considered to be the national hero by all layers of the Russian population
People often live under illusions. They can be absolutely harmless and extremely dangerous illusions. At times, illusions can lead to disastrous consequences. A whole nation or race can be mistaken. For example, when Indians thought that white people wanted to trade mirrors and beads with them, they were absolutely wrong to think so. The illusion eventually resulted in the extermination of the race.
Illusions on the level of ethnic groups can be extremely dangerous to their own existence. Russians have their own national illusions. It is generally believed that the Russian vodka is the heart and soul of the nation, the national treasure. One may say that there is the vodka cult in Russia. Small boys dream to grow and start drinking vodka, teenage boys will not become men if they do not drink vodka, adult men do not work without a shot of vodka. The male population of Russian villages and small towns has been virtually exterminated without wars. Alcoholic parents give birth to sick and stupid children and the next generation reproduces a generation of invalids.
However, vodka is considered to be a national hero for all layers of the Russian population. There are numerous jokes and fun stories about the strong drink, for example: "Why do you drink vodka? - We drink vodka because it is liquid. If it were solid, we would eat it." Russian directors make movies about vodka, and sculptor Ernest Neizvestny is intended to build a monument to vodka in the town of Uglich.
Russian people are drawn to worship their tyrants, but the attitude to foreign aggressors is absolutely different. There is a saying: "If you come to us with a sword, you will be killed with the sword." However, if a Russian tyrant exterminates his own nation, people put him on a pedestal. Comrade Stalin has exterminated 20 million Russians, but people loved and worshipped him.
Vodka has killed a lot more people, that is why it is practically impossible to find its enemies among Russians. Afghan guerrillas have killed 13,000 Soviet military men during eight years of the Afghan war. However, drunk Russian drivers can achieve this level only in six months. About 13,000 people die in "drunk" car accidents every six months in Russia, which makes two wartime Afghanistans a year. Russia's enemies would have to wage war for a hundred years to cause the damage that Russians cause to themselves on yearly basis.
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