Now, in the period of epidemic has clearly deteriorated alcoholic question. Alcohol has become one of the very popular “characters”. Moreover, one in two people – both negative and positive. On the one hand, when the quarantine mode is active the use of “fire water” was a serious trouble. But on the other hand without the same alcohol-based solutions many of us no longer think of a reliable disinfection of objects. Equally controversial circumstances and in some years – during the war.
If you take a closer look at the “inside” of any emergency situation, which lasted for quite a long time, you may find that in the unfolding events somewhere, at some point, you will find yourself alcohol problem.
the Great Patriotic war – is no exception. Moreover, the degree of importance of alcohol and alcohol-containing products to ensure the army’s combat and supporting industry quite eloquently might tell such a figure.
Managed to find the information that in 1942-1944 in the Soviet Union was built 26 new distilleries. This exceeds the number of similar enterprises in the country, commissioned in the period of 1920-ies-1930-ies. And, as contemporaries recalled, the workers employed in alcohol production, had “reservations”. They were not drafted into the army, and the military has refused even those who wanted to go to the front as a volunteer. They’ve released a super-important product of the country.
Indeed, the alcohol used in the manufacture of ammunition, optical devices, and other equipment (and even to make orders). It was necessary for the operation and maintenance of some mechanisms in military vehicles. Alcoholic solutions are indispensable in medicine.
we should Not forget that soon began fighting with the Germans in many divisions of the red army was legalized the famous “narkomovskih 100 grams”.
However, the alcoholic a situation in the army – a special topic which will lead us far to the side. So here it would be correct to mention some associated with visokogradnja liquid everyday episodes of life in the rear, who lived by the strict rules of war: All for front, all for victory! – As it was the case with alcoholism? As fought with him?
for four Long years the people had actually survived. Cold, hunger, hard work… of Course, I once in a while to relax – including with the help of “fire water”. But opportunities were very limited. Not primarily because of direct prohibitions (no “dry law” has not been announced), and the reason is purely financial.
According to the “social” price vodka or wine to the simple hard workers almost never get it. Only a few number of times, on the occasion of the composition of rations for workoffer include alcohol.
for example, a fragment from the memoirs of Boris Abramson, who worked as a surgeon in one of the Leningrad hospitals for a luxury gift made by residents of the Northern capital by may 1, 1942: “”the Mood of Leningrad has clearly improved. The holiday gave a lot of food, namely, cheese-600 gr., sausage 300 gr. wine 0,5 l, 1,5 l beer, 1 KGR of flour., chocolate 25 gr. tobacco 50 gr. tea 25 gr. 500 g of herring…”
the rest of the time the Muscovites and residents of other cities surround the booze had to buy in the shops at the commercial price or speculators. Price half-liter bottle in this variant ranged from 300 to 800 rubles, and the average worker at the plant received 500-700 per month. At this scale of prices is not apocopes!
People sometimes tried to get the precious alcohol, using “official position”. That recalls A. Khovrin, who as a boy worked in a factory in the Chelyabinsk region, where they produced ammunition.
“The biggest demand for ethanol. Almost all of the explosive mixture prepared with the use of this commodity.
Factory craftsmen have put on the underground flow of special flasks stainless steel or metal with a capacity up to two liters. These containers were carried out “under the figure of the customer” and repeated the shapes of the body. Under clothes, they went for belly, and Breasts. On the black market operated price: per pint of alcohol was given a bucket of potatoes or a loaf of bread… you Have to give credit to the plant: to found takeaway alcohol was an individual approach – from a simple reprimand to the poor transfer of cases to the court for those who knew they were self-seekers and speculators…”
But even in this happy case, the presence of the “left” of alcohol, particularly to roam the people could not. In wartime conditions for the appearance of the plant in a drunken state was punished severely.
he recalled How the veterans, if the master or the foreman noticed someone is noticeably tipsy, the first time it was still possible to get simply the suggestion, but if history repeats itself, the man flew from the enterprise. And it was fraught, or the withdrawal of his armor and sending it to the front, or – if recognized as unfit for military service, dismissal. And not just fired, and was charged with an article about the willful violation of labor discipline, which shone up to 10 years!
However, often such offenders were not sent to the Gulag institution and the so-called Labor army. It was created during the war temporary labor battalions, where people were serving compulsory labor service. – Work hard, stay in barracks, strict military regulations of the day and alert security.
the Prospect of being in trudarmeytsy was very convincing arguments��, have constrained the desires of even the most ardent fans of “firewater”.
But, in addition to punishment from the authorities, there was another serious threat to the people who tried at any cost to satisfy his thirst for “firewater”. Along with drinking medical alcohol factories also produced large quantities of alcohol technical. Some of its varieties still with a very strong desire to be used as “intoxicating”. For example, wood alcohol, which is popularly called “pod”. This potion had a sharp unpleasant taste and aroma chemicals, but serious harm is not inflicted (except for a severe hangover the next morning and a long “acetone” breath of his mouth).
far more dangerous was the other production plants. For technical and production needs of the produced methyl alcohol. And here it was insidious poison. There were frequent cases when the fans of Bacchus, Prestwich quite normal like the smell of vodka, drank a “drink”, but soon after a feast it was death due to severe poisoning, the other was left alive, was losing his sight, and only in some cases, the person desperate methyl alcohol, was able to drain, keeping him in health. Such a kind of Russian roulette.
