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Owww it depends. Yes, vodka is often, if not always, drunk straight. It is also a tradition to drink vodka when celebrating this or that occasion. But it varies from family to family, from social circle to social circle. Some people don't drink alcohol at all (like me).

There was a whole culture of alcoholism back in the eighties - mostly amongst the intelligentsia folks, as a form of revolt against the system and the society. We actually have works of fiction dedicated solely to drinking. This, I think, is a purely Russian thing - IDEK if anyone else would write or even read a narrative where all the plot twists are like "and then they mixed red vine with beer, drunk it, and quarrelled over Alexandr Galich*".

*Galich being a famous underground poet and singer.

or even "and then they mixed red vine with beer, drunk it, and shat into a sewing machine". (an actual thing. I'm not making it up.)

But now this culture went away. Russians still drink, of course, but I don't think that as a nation, they are more hardcore drinkers than, say, the Estonians, or the Czechs.

I would actually be interested in reading a book where all the plot twists involve mixing drinks, quarrelling over underground poets, and/or shitting into sewing machines.

Any recommendations?

late Russian anon here

"Moscow-Petushki" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow-Petushki) is a classic example, though there's a little more to the plot than drinking. The book I had in mind was Maxim Belozor's "Magic Land", but it has never been translated into English. If you do read in Russian, however, it's called "Волшебная страна" and consists solely of drunk people doing ridiculous shit.

I love "Moscow-Petushki" <3 Erofeev was a very talented dude.

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