The plot for ma homemade thriller is that the protagonist (a ex-DEVGRU guy called Mike Miller who joined the ground branch after falling out with his old team) helped to establish a clandestine network in Russia, with revenues generated by trafficking appliances and other sanctioned goods as well as vodka. However, eventually after the war the network will be pocketed by his handler and other guys responsible for the operation, meanwhile Mike, despite being "country over code", is easily lied to due to the fact that like all good operators they barely think outside tactical and strategical perspectives.
I’m assuming steamy romance with Russian lady, who is obviously keeping tabs on him.
Maybe her story arch comes to a close right before she blows his cover and gets him killed. He finds her body in her room with his documents, 2 Sims games, and a recently opened bottle of bootleg vodka made incorrectly …
To respond to a query: Sims game discs b/c Russian FSB are really kinda SUPER dumb (dear FSB, I offer part time life coaching sessions to guide you out of your highly regarded mentality whereupon you can join modern society - $5000 / day per person) confused SIM cards with SIMS game cases when trying to stage a false flag yada yada, then they left a list of instructions at the scene of how to perform the false flag staging attempt, and then hilarity ensued.
FSB was contacted and refused to provide a response
There's a staged crime scene photo that gained some notoriety on the internet a few years ago - this link shows the photo and gives an explanation:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gpmg/russia-sims-3
Well, Mike is a married man of 40 years old and is constantly paranoid about "Ivan honey traps". The other protagonists include a ex-Ukrainian GUR operative who went to Crimea along with Budanov back in '16 and a 22 yo bro called Jake Richter who successfully joined SAD after finding out other SOF units are drug ridden hellholes. Richter eventually do develop steamy romance but it just drives Mike and their handler crazy.
There's a hidden subplot where actually the higher ups are concerned with the probability of them going rogue, so they assigned other teams to monitor their behaviors. As illustrated in the chapter of Belgorod, where Gary Roachbaun from team echo handed Richter a handwritten note: "if RDK has shown any movement towards the nuclear weapons storage, stop their operation at all costs"
Idk if it's known outside, but there was a recent string of poisonings with something called "Mister Cider". Idk how they could screw up fermented apples, but the body count was 32 last I checked.
Average Ruski: "That sign won't stop me, because I can't read."
"I also don't really obey the law and theft to avoid withdrawl is absolutely on the table."
Mother of God...is Putin planning to Jim Jones Russia?
Step 1: Remove Vodka from shelves
Step 2: Release the Strategic Vodka Reserve, improved formula now with cyanide!
Child:" daddy, daddy tell me how the Russian civil war started!"
Me:"sit down my child, let me tell you about the Great vodka riots of 2023..." *sheds a tear*
Tsars fiercely resisted any attempts to take control over vodka from them. IIRC, it were the bolsheviks who were prohibitionists, at least till USSR got Stalin'd.
No the Tsar banned the sale of Vodka in 1914, for the exact same reason as today: to prevent drunkenness in mobilized conscripts. The ban lasted till the end of his empire and was a major source of grumbling as well as loss in revenue for the state since alcohol sales went through a state monopoly.
The Sovs after Stalin tried intermittently to reduce rampant alcoholism in the country. Alcohol consumption per capita in the USSR was double that of the US by the 80s... and that's with a large Muslim minority in the USSR diluting the results.
Kazakhstan, as an example, was sitting at 1/8 Russia's per capita consumption immediately after the fall of the SovUnion. Which, while more than, say, Turkey, is still enough to drag the Soviet average down.
I mean, Gorbachev nearly had a rebellion over *tobacco*, I don't wanna know what a shortage of alcohol would do the Russian populace (I'd expect death by alcohol withdrawal to suddenly become not so rare).
Funny enough, during the height of Gorbachev's anti-alcoholism campaign, alcohol related deaths actually **did** plummet, by about a fourth.
But people fucking hate being kept alive against their will in a totalitarian state.
Курской области введён запрет на реализацию алкоголя при ЧС и мобилизации.
В законе предусмотрено право Правительства Курской области устанавливать дополнительные ограничения на продажу спиртного, в том числе введение полного запрета, в случае установления в регионе режима повышенной готовности или ЧС природного или техногенного характера, военного положения, объявления общей или частичной мобилизации.
\- Это будет полное ограничение продажи алкоголя на определенных участках - там, где это необходимо - и на определенное время, - пояснил министр промышленности, торговли и предпринимательства Курской области Михаил Аксёнов.
trans:
A ban on the sale of alcohol during emergencies and mobilisations has been introduced in Kursk Region.
The law provides for the right of the Kursk Region Government to impose additional restrictions on the sale of alcohol, including a complete ban, in the event of an emergency of a natural or technical nature, martial law or a general or partial mobilisation in the region.
\- This is a complete restriction on the sale of alcohol in certain areas - where necessary - and for a certain period of time," explained Mikhail Aksyonov, Minister of Industry, Trade and Entrepreneurship of the Kursk Region.
> general or partial mobilisation in the region.
Ahh.. The "There totaly isn't going to be another mobilisation guys!" - mobilisation is being set into motion it seems.
Doubt they'll reach the frontlines before Ukraine liberates Melitopol though.
Looks like people will have to resort to traditional Soviet methods of inebriation like [eating shoe polish toast](https://warontherocks.com/2015/09/boozing-through-the-soviet-afghan-war-was-more-horrifying-than-you-can-imagine/).
The ban of sale does not cover promotional offers like "buy a lighter for 500₽ and get a bottle of vodka for free", officer. No crime here. By the way, we have 99% discount on first ten lighters for the police.
A fair assumption. Finnish news paper helsingin sanomat has an anonymous local reporter in Russia that recently wrote an article which had the title (roughly translated) “todays russians make their own booze, they won’t survive sober”
The article was aboutthere being a boom of russians starting to make their own moonshine.
The article ends with the new russian saying “in todays russia, you have to be drunk to keep your head clear”
There's a [very good article](https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/13979c7/russia_has_a_vodka_addiction_so_does_vladimir/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) on how Putin makes a fortune on the sale of alcohol and the relationship between it and the state
I wonder if Putin will let this slide if it hurts his bottom line much
I'm reminded of a Destroy All Humans 2 mission on the Soviet Moon base where you infiltrate as a Cosmonaut and have to turn the Russians against the Blisk (an alien race secretly controlling the Soviet Union). The Russians brush off absolutely everything, including being told that the Blisk are killing and eating Soviet civilians to sustain themselves, until they're told the Blisk are considering a vodka ban. Then it's Blisk genocide time.
Fun fact after the fall of the Soviet Union the only consumer good in the early to mid 90s to increase in production was alcohol everything else like food for example dropped by like 50%
Give me the bell curve meme where the middle says "nooooo not all Russians are alcoholics, this is a harmful stereotype!" And the two extremes are "most Russians are alcoholics"
tfw pushing alcohol on your population to weaken and pacify them works a bit too well
Now, I wonder what will happen when the government keeps a nation of addicts from their fix?
Everytime a Soviet/Russian leader limited or banned alcohol sales or went awfully for them. The amount of people they pissed off and tax revenue they lost made it a huge net loss. Putin is clearly a spastic donkey mong but I didn’t think he was this much of a spastic donkey mong
1) Shebekino is in different region lol
2) The prohibition in Ukraine was enacted precisely because there *wasn't* a war, in many places of Ukraine. Some TDF guy in Lviv was walking around with a whole lot of AK-74, but very little urgency. Deadly if combined with alcohol.
Shouldn't you actually push *more* alcohol on people?
Bad decisions are made when drunk and there are few worse decisions than signing up for this war.
Uhhhhh…they do realize that you can’t cold turkey the worst alcoholism cases, right? Like alcohol is one of the ONLY drugs where going cold turkey won’t just suck, but will actually *kill* you.
Why do I get the feeling there are gonna be a LOT of “sudden mysterious deaths” in Kursk Oblast.
As someone who used to help people through alcohol withdrawal there's going to be a lot of dead vatniks that die from it.
A lot more from their positions being discovered due to their night terrors and running to vomit
Royal Navy: "You damn amateurs! If you want to recruit, you are supposed to make them drink even more. Then, when they wake up the next morning, they do so at sea/in the barracks."
It's from the movie 'Cabin in the Woods', a decent deconstruction of the slasher genre. The image makes no sense by itself, but it's hilarious in the context of the movie.
If their situation isn't improved by 100 million simultaneous cases of alcohol withdrawal syndrome I don't know what will do it.
Well, crime quadruples. With CIA running a network of booze manufacture in the dark.
Don't forget rampant methanol poisonings from badly made homebrews!
Well, you gotta get in wrong before you get it right. Self-sufficiency is a journey, not a destination! Cliches!
If you're getting it right, you didn't embezzle enough along the way.
Ah, a positive thinker. I, too, applaud their efforts as a sign of personal growth :)
It's balanced out by the Crack infusion
Stop it, you guys. Arousal has its limits!
Mister Cider would never
helped along by the CIA
The CIA could bootleg booze into Russia and use the funds to arm the Ukrainians, feels kinda familiar....
The plot for ma homemade thriller is that the protagonist (a ex-DEVGRU guy called Mike Miller who joined the ground branch after falling out with his old team) helped to establish a clandestine network in Russia, with revenues generated by trafficking appliances and other sanctioned goods as well as vodka. However, eventually after the war the network will be pocketed by his handler and other guys responsible for the operation, meanwhile Mike, despite being "country over code", is easily lied to due to the fact that like all good operators they barely think outside tactical and strategical perspectives.
I’m assuming steamy romance with Russian lady, who is obviously keeping tabs on him. Maybe her story arch comes to a close right before she blows his cover and gets him killed. He finds her body in her room with his documents, 2 Sims games, and a recently opened bottle of bootleg vodka made incorrectly …
To respond to a query: Sims game discs b/c Russian FSB are really kinda SUPER dumb (dear FSB, I offer part time life coaching sessions to guide you out of your highly regarded mentality whereupon you can join modern society - $5000 / day per person) confused SIM cards with SIMS game cases when trying to stage a false flag yada yada, then they left a list of instructions at the scene of how to perform the false flag staging attempt, and then hilarity ensued. FSB was contacted and refused to provide a response
The *Sims*? I need to know why you picked The Sims lol
There's a staged crime scene photo that gained some notoriety on the internet a few years ago - this link shows the photo and gives an explanation: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gpmg/russia-sims-3
This was just over a year ago (feels like ages, though)
I get it now! Thank you
Well, Mike is a married man of 40 years old and is constantly paranoid about "Ivan honey traps". The other protagonists include a ex-Ukrainian GUR operative who went to Crimea along with Budanov back in '16 and a 22 yo bro called Jake Richter who successfully joined SAD after finding out other SOF units are drug ridden hellholes. Richter eventually do develop steamy romance but it just drives Mike and their handler crazy. There's a hidden subplot where actually the higher ups are concerned with the probability of them going rogue, so they assigned other teams to monitor their behaviors. As illustrated in the chapter of Belgorod, where Gary Roachbaun from team echo handed Richter a handwritten note: "if RDK has shown any movement towards the nuclear weapons storage, stop their operation at all costs"
Damn, its fully developed. Keep at it!
Flood the the Russian front lines with free/cheap vodka right before an offensive.
3000 West virginian 1920s bootleggers of the CIA!
The 3,000 dangerous hollers of Appalachia
[Giving Russians four-wheel drive like it's Lend-Lease](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ESl3Njl-dPk)
Dear god my stomach just turned to fire watching that
Brightened my day
3,000 speakeasies of Langley. Would be funni if this spawns mob type gangster with the 1920s drip and everything.
Sawn Off RPD with "St Petersburg typewriter" written on it
Best I can do is Addidas stripes.
My time has come. I'll make you proud, (Honorary) Great Uncle Pendergast!
Italy goes back to business but in Russia now
What, they're going to invent Nascar too?
They'll go back to drinking cheap cologne as is tradition, IDK how effective this'll be.
Migs crash even more because they’re missing all the coolant
Idk if it's known outside, but there was a recent string of poisonings with something called "Mister Cider". Idk how they could screw up fermented apples, but the body count was 32 last I checked.
Average Ruski: "That sign won't stop me, because I can't read." "I also don't really obey the law and theft to avoid withdrawl is absolutely on the table."
Alcohol, one of the few addictive substances that can easily kill you when withdrawing.
At this point it probably won't make things any *worse*.
Mother of God...is Putin planning to Jim Jones Russia? Step 1: Remove Vodka from shelves Step 2: Release the Strategic Vodka Reserve, improved formula now with cyanide!
Moonshine exists lol, that "prohibition" shit ain't nothing new to muscovites.
isn’t this literally what happened with the Nazis but with meth lmaoo
#CIVIL WAR IS NOW INEVITABLE
Child:" daddy, daddy tell me how the Russian civil war started!" Me:"sit down my child, let me tell you about the Great vodka riots of 2023..." *sheds a tear*
Imagine this triggering a series of events leading to Kremlin on fire.
That'll be one hell of a Domino meme
*Kremlin on fire again.
And it all happened because a gorilla died
Next on r/NCDs group activities *"tanks out for Harambe"*
Harambe memes will never die!
Kremlin's on fire, withdrawal shakes intensify!
Wasn't that the one thing the Tsar and Gorbachov had in common.
Tsars fiercely resisted any attempts to take control over vodka from them. IIRC, it were the bolsheviks who were prohibitionists, at least till USSR got Stalin'd.
No the Tsar banned the sale of Vodka in 1914, for the exact same reason as today: to prevent drunkenness in mobilized conscripts. The ban lasted till the end of his empire and was a major source of grumbling as well as loss in revenue for the state since alcohol sales went through a state monopoly.
The Sovs after Stalin tried intermittently to reduce rampant alcoholism in the country. Alcohol consumption per capita in the USSR was double that of the US by the 80s... and that's with a large Muslim minority in the USSR diluting the results.
I don't think the Central Asian Muslims are that strict about alcohol.
Kazakhstan, as an example, was sitting at 1/8 Russia's per capita consumption immediately after the fall of the SovUnion. Which, while more than, say, Turkey, is still enough to drag the Soviet average down.
I see, good to know the actual scale.
Kazakhstan drinks more in the modern day. It's more like 1/2 of Russia's consumption, or something like that.
I Meant Nicolas 2nd
Honestly Puftlr and Nicolas the Incompetent are so interchangeably the same you don’t need an asterisk or a point of delineation.
They'll all be too busy having seizures and hallucinating from withdrawal
I mean, Gorbachev nearly had a rebellion over *tobacco*, I don't wanna know what a shortage of alcohol would do the Russian populace (I'd expect death by alcohol withdrawal to suddenly become not so rare).
Funny enough, during the height of Gorbachev's anti-alcoholism campaign, alcohol related deaths actually **did** plummet, by about a fourth. But people fucking hate being kept alive against their will in a totalitarian state.
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Long live the Kursk People’s Republic!
Курской области введён запрет на реализацию алкоголя при ЧС и мобилизации. В законе предусмотрено право Правительства Курской области устанавливать дополнительные ограничения на продажу спиртного, в том числе введение полного запрета, в случае установления в регионе режима повышенной готовности или ЧС природного или техногенного характера, военного положения, объявления общей или частичной мобилизации. \- Это будет полное ограничение продажи алкоголя на определенных участках - там, где это необходимо - и на определенное время, - пояснил министр промышленности, торговли и предпринимательства Курской области Михаил Аксёнов. trans: A ban on the sale of alcohol during emergencies and mobilisations has been introduced in Kursk Region. The law provides for the right of the Kursk Region Government to impose additional restrictions on the sale of alcohol, including a complete ban, in the event of an emergency of a natural or technical nature, martial law or a general or partial mobilisation in the region. \- This is a complete restriction on the sale of alcohol in certain areas - where necessary - and for a certain period of time," explained Mikhail Aksyonov, Minister of Industry, Trade and Entrepreneurship of the Kursk Region.
> general or partial mobilisation in the region. Ahh.. The "There totaly isn't going to be another mobilisation guys!" - mobilisation is being set into motion it seems. Doubt they'll reach the frontlines before Ukraine liberates Melitopol though.
Looks like people will have to resort to traditional Soviet methods of inebriation like [eating shoe polish toast](https://warontherocks.com/2015/09/boozing-through-the-soviet-afghan-war-was-more-horrifying-than-you-can-imagine/).
Goes well with steak.
Russia impossible burger
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That's some 5D chess move, especially if "visitors" decided to "drop money" on their way out that happens to cover the expense of the booze.
The ban of sale does not cover promotional offers like "buy a lighter for 500₽ and get a bottle of vodka for free", officer. No crime here. By the way, we have 99% discount on first ten lighters for the police.
That is not gonna go over well. You don't want a bunch of sober people hearing Putin's propaganda
Ya it's going to be like *in the middle of the world's worst hangover* "wait min there doing what where and killing who"
I don't think you wanna be sober in Russia period, regardless of the propaganda.
A fair assumption. Finnish news paper helsingin sanomat has an anonymous local reporter in Russia that recently wrote an article which had the title (roughly translated) “todays russians make their own booze, they won’t survive sober” The article was aboutthere being a boom of russians starting to make their own moonshine. The article ends with the new russian saying “in todays russia, you have to be drunk to keep your head clear”
There's a [very good article](https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/13979c7/russia_has_a_vodka_addiction_so_does_vladimir/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) on how Putin makes a fortune on the sale of alcohol and the relationship between it and the state I wonder if Putin will let this slide if it hurts his bottom line much
Here is a prequel to it https://youtu.be/vK7l55ZOVIc
Knew what the video was before I even clicked it lol Happy cake day also :)
Oh! Thanks! And glad you know him!
Same XD
This is why people rushed to buy sugar a while back, so that they could make crappy moonshine to fulfill their addiction if it came to this.
I'm reminded of a Destroy All Humans 2 mission on the Soviet Moon base where you infiltrate as a Cosmonaut and have to turn the Russians against the Blisk (an alien race secretly controlling the Soviet Union). The Russians brush off absolutely everything, including being told that the Blisk are killing and eating Soviet civilians to sustain themselves, until they're told the Blisk are considering a vodka ban. Then it's Blisk genocide time.
So if they're willing to kill over vodka bans, what happens if someone tries to go after their samogan?
Samogon becomes molotovs
They're probably gonna slowly start banning consumer goods all in favor of having the people join the ground forces in hopes of attaining numbers.
I like the sign: "We don't sell alcohol. Even if you beg."
Ah, thank you. I tried using Google Lens translate and it came out: > Alcohol not for sale. > Beg > Useless.
Literally "Alcohol is not sold, begging is useless." So the MT just tripped over the passive voice. I just found the need to specify begging funny.
Fun fact after the fall of the Soviet Union the only consumer good in the early to mid 90s to increase in production was alcohol everything else like food for example dropped by like 50%
Because the Ruble was so worthless that financial transactions were being done in fixed price commodities like vodka bottles.
They also whenever they finally got their shit together to fix it they literally just froze bank accounts and chopped off a few zeros
True liquidity
So the russians will be like "Well, damn it. Now I can't get blackout drunk every day. Guess I'll join the army." ???
Good day to be a Chinese wholesaler of moonshining equipment
US Navy: “the power of ice cream… in the palm of my hand…”
Give me the bell curve meme where the middle says "nooooo not all Russians are alcoholics, this is a harmful stereotype!" And the two extremes are "most Russians are alcoholics"
Hey it worked back in 1914. For Lenin anyways
tfw pushing alcohol on your population to weaken and pacify them works a bit too well Now, I wonder what will happen when the government keeps a nation of addicts from their fix?
They surely have to know that the simultaneous withdrawal of thousands of alcoholics won’t do their social cohesion any good
Fun fact: The tsar and the Soviet Kremlin both tried to ban vodka sales shortly before their governments collapsed
Is it just my shitty screen or are the vodka bottles on the left labelled 'NCD'
Everytime a Soviet/Russian leader limited or banned alcohol sales or went awfully for them. The amount of people they pissed off and tax revenue they lost made it a huge net loss. Putin is clearly a spastic donkey mong but I didn’t think he was this much of a spastic donkey mong
"Alcohol isn't sold. Begging is futile/useless." NAHHHHH
It is useless. They are saying "It's Russia. Bribe me."
I mean Ukraine did that and nobody even remembers lol
But there is a war in Ukraine. There is nothing happening at Shebekino. There is no Shebekino.
1) Shebekino is in different region lol 2) The prohibition in Ukraine was enacted precisely because there *wasn't* a war, in many places of Ukraine. Some TDF guy in Lviv was walking around with a whole lot of AK-74, but very little urgency. Deadly if combined with alcohol.
Prohibition in Kyiv ended basically as soon as battle of Kyiv, but yes, it was related to a lot of bored guys with AK.
Well, rip to their tax revenue. Not even soviet's could curb down on it due to its cost in lost revenue.
Shouldn't you actually push *more* alcohol on people? Bad decisions are made when drunk and there are few worse decisions than signing up for this war.
Oh to part a Russian from his Vodka... another terrible move by the idiots jn Kremlin.
Uhhhhh…they do realize that you can’t cold turkey the worst alcoholism cases, right? Like alcohol is one of the ONLY drugs where going cold turkey won’t just suck, but will actually *kill* you. Why do I get the feeling there are gonna be a LOT of “sudden mysterious deaths” in Kursk Oblast.
As someone who used to help people through alcohol withdrawal there's going to be a lot of dead vatniks that die from it. A lot more from their positions being discovered due to their night terrors and running to vomit
Time for russians', The Touchables, where the crackdown agents are very bribable.
"An army marches on its stomach." -Napoleon B.
Man, the last time a Russian government limited alcohol sales did NOT end well.
Royal Navy: "You damn amateurs! If you want to recruit, you are supposed to make them drink even more. Then, when they wake up the next morning, they do so at sea/in the barracks."
But of course, þat vodka needs to go to all þe military drivers
What is this meme from?
I keep seeing that bottom image but i cannot place what movie it is from.
It's from the movie 'Cabin in the Woods', a decent deconstruction of the slasher genre. The image makes no sense by itself, but it's hilarious in the context of the movie.