MAKING MORE VODKA
MONOPOLY IN RUSSIA A new distillery which will double Moscow’s supply of vodka will be constructed in the coming year, says “Izvestya.” It adds that the vodka monopoly is yielding a larger revenue to the Bolsheviks than it did under the Tsarist regime. In the fiscal year 1926-1927 387,000,000 litres of spirits was produced and sold, chiefly to workers. The production in the present year is expected to total 550,000,000 litres. The consumption per head has increased from 2 7-10 litres to 4 litres. When it is realised that the peasants are making home-brewed spirit and that the entire State production of vodka is being sold to the workers in the cities and industrial districts, the effect of the increase can be well imagined.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 538, 15 December 1928, Page 27
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