It seems like the alcohol polices resembled the roaring 20’s in the US. I loved the fact that you started your post with the history of alcohol in Russia.
Month: May 2018
Comment on Excuse me while I have a quick meltdown by Elysia Budu
Is it a shock that Gorbachev did not address the country for 3 weeks? I believe that the leader should always speak up about an incident in a timely manner but 3 weeks is to long, however, I wrote on this topic also and found a site that stated the government put out a 15 second blurb on the situation stating that they were investigation the situation.
Comment on Stop 6: Chernobyl by Alden Anthony
I would be somewhat scared to visit Chernobyl, or even go close to it. I don’t understand how people are brave enough to live there on a permanent basis. I wonder if there will be any affects from the radiation that was released into the atmosphere that have yet to be identified?
Comment on Say No to Alcohol by A.Anthony
The events of human history have shown that evidently, it is impossible to successfully ban alcohol. It didn’t work in America in the 20’s and it didn’t work in Russia in the 80’s.
Comment on Lots of Problems with Alcohol by Elysia Budu
This post was very interesting. Do you think that the alchol policies did more harm than good? As far as health it seems like it did not help and it hurt the economy also.
Comment on Excuse me while I have a quick meltdown by A.Anthony
I can’t even imagine how difficult it must have been for the people who were forced to leave everything behind. It is so awful that they were kept so in the dark, especially about such an impactful and traumatic event.
Comment on We Have No Sex Here by Grace on 20th Century Russia
Bree, one of my favorite subjects of research and posts this semester was women in Soviet Russia and I really appreciated reading this post to wrap up the 20th century in Russia for women. It seems like women in Soviet Russia often faced conflicting ideals/thoughts on feminism. Previously it had been having to be a worker, but also a domestic and supportive wife and mother. Here in your post you discuss how in some ways women were supposed to support prostitution /understand it because women were taking ownership of their bodies or if they had to for money. But Russian women also sometimes felt revealing their bodies was a degradation of themselves and the state and that there were men who felt this way too. I think this article was a great representation of modern ideals clashing with traditional Russian values and how that impacted Soviet women.
Comment on The Soviet Union- BYOB by Grace Callanan
Nick I thought your post was very interesting to read and had a lot of great information in it! I thought your first paragraph was a great introduction setting up how integral alcohol had been in Russian culture, I think this supported by the movie we …
Comment on The Elephant(s foot) In The Room by Grace on 20th Century Russia
I also wrote about Chernobyl this week and really enjoyed reading your post! I did not know that the US had hidden the 3 Mile Island incident from the public and thought that was a great connection that you made. When writing my post I had the question “I wonder if a lack of social media made it easier to hide it from the public?” which I think applies to your post as well. Even without social media Russians knew something had happened, just not to what extent and what it meant, but I think a lack of social media definetly applies to the US example.
Comment on Stop 6: Chernobyl by eabudu
On one of my links that is one of the statics given. I don’t know how else to describe the amount of radiation since I don’t understand the way it measured.
