For the last few hundred years the Russians have always been one of the dominant powers in the world. It doesn’t matter if we are talking about the Russian Empire under ruling of the tsars, the communist days of the Soviet Union or modern Russia under Vladimir Putin. For the last millennium their first official…
In the early 1960’s Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) was the man in the Soviet Union. After being the first human ever in Space, the young cosmonaut became nothing less than a rock star. As he was dragged all over the world for Soviet propaganda, his whole life simply turned around drinking and giving toasts. When the…
Speaking of mean drunks, Jozef Stalin probably holds the record of having most people killed in the history of men. Experts estimated that the Soviet leader was responsible (direct or indirect) for the death of around 40 million people. Sure the health freaks are quick to point out that this was a result of his…
Lords of the Drinks 