[lbo-talk] The difficulty of measuring Russia's economy

[Michael Pugliese]

> Chris Doss <itschris13 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I love the line "Russian taste for industrial alcohol or toxic moonshine 
> could be
> one explanation."

 In, "The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine, "  by Andrew Cockburn 
(one of Alex' bro) Random House, 323 pp, Brezhnev era Red Army soldiers are 
drinking http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/som/cmed/alcohol/types-al-bev.htm
Ethylene glycol, also known as antifreeze, is the most harmful type of 
alcohol. It should never be consumed, as it is deadly.