>From: "ChrisD(RJ)" <chrisd at russiajournal.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: "'lbo-talk at lists.panix.com'" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: RE: Russia and booze
>Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 13:06:05 +0400
>
>Sorry about the endless series of short snips (I'm doing this at work
>between jobs, so I forget stuff).
>
>In the villages in Russia, where living standards are very very low,
>practically every male is an alcoholic. I lived in a village for a while.
>Vodka is the only light in their lives.
>.
Back when I was a quasi-Sovietologist-quasi cause I don't know Russian, not that they care in poli sci or phil depts--I was hired to teach "Marxist and Russian philosophy" at Ohio State, in the phil dept, joint with Slavic Studies, and Itold them, I don't know Russian and no one would mistake me for an expert in "Rusian philosophy" outsider of a knowledge of the Russian Marxist classics; they said, no matter--this was back in the Gorby days; later they decided I was several shades too red for them, sorry about the digression--anyway, back when I was a sort of S-ologist, I hada friend who loved to quote a statstic from Morbidity and Mortality Reporter, a former US govt publication put out by the HSS, to the effect that in the mid 1970s, 10,000 Russians a year froze to death while drunk.
Sorry about the shaggy dog stoty.
jks
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