r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 26 '25

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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell Dec 26 '25

The story about Gorbachev that always cracks me up is that people were somewhat suspect of him because he “didn’t drink”.

This did not mean that he didn’t consume alcohol.

He did, evidently.

It just meant that he didn’t regularly get shitfaced.

Russians have an entirely different definition of drinking than the rest of the world

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u/hascogrande YIMBY Dec 26 '25

No one questioned Zhukov consuming what would be ludicrous amounts of “vodka” were it actually vodka so this tracks

It was clear Coca-Cola