hello comrades and welcome back to shankar show stories about life in the soviet union drastically tavares very programmable my name is sergey and back in july of NUMBER_TOKEN i was born in the ussr was sergey yaradilsa saviatskam sayuji so today we're going to talk about drugs in the soviet union this topic was heavily requested for a long time and i ignored those requests for a long time because first of all this is such an anti-soviet question what about drug usage in the ussr why would anyone think that in the workers paradise there will be drug abuse i mean do they do drugs in real paradise up in heaven but on a serious note yes we did have some drug abuse issues in the soviet union and we'll talk about it today and personally i'm not a perfect guy to tell you the story about drugs since i didn't do any drugs in the ussr in fact in all my NUMBER_TOKEN years i tried smoking weed only twice once i was at the farm when i worked with mexicans back in NUMBER_TOKEN or NUMBER_TOKEN and one time when i had a layover in amsterdam and that's it and of course if i'll be heavily involved with drugs back in NUMBER_TOKENs when i became a teenager i probably won't be talking to you right now and before we begin i would like to ask you for a small favor youtube probably won't like this video it probably will block monetization but you can always support my work by clicking that little heart with the dollar sign below any video on my channel and you can give me a little tip thank you in advance pacifa okay so we need to start with the lesson of russian language because there's a huge difference in words for drugs in english and russian i find it extremely annoying that in english language the word drugs is being used for medicine and for narcotics this is really like stupid because you know oh you do drugs or you take drugs so it's quite confusing especially for foreigners in soviet russia drugs do you so anyway in russian language if we say drugs is medicine it's le carstra le carstro so it's only used for medicine it's not used for any illegal drugs lycastra and the bad drugs we say narcotic narcotic or narcotics or narcotics so that's the word so that's import into russian language that we use we say just narcotic and the drug addict or person who takes drugs is not come on not a command so that's kind of like gnar called man not come on drug addict so historically in soviet union the main issue is substandard views was of course alcohol consumption excessive alcohol consumption so drugs narcotics were kind of like a secondary problem the main issue was that people were drinking way too much and that's kind of what was the main problem through the whole history of the ussr and going back even before that during the tsar russia and that's the topic i also need to cover and i don't have a video yet about it drinking in the soviet union and unfortunately my own family was a victim of this alcohol problem my father was coming home from work and drunk pretty much
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN hello comrades and welcome back to shankar show stories about life in the soviet union drastically tavares very programmable my name is sergey and back in july of NUMBER_TOKEN i was born in the ussr was sergey yaradilsa saviatskam sayuji so today we're going to talk about drugs in the soviet union this topic was heavily requested for a long time and i ignored those requests for a long time because first of all this is such an anti-soviet question what about drug usage in the ussr why would anyone think that in the workers paradise there will be drug abuse i mean do they do drugs in real paradise up in heaven but on a serious note yes we did have some drug abuse issues in the soviet union and we'll talk about it today and personally i'm not a perfect guy to tell you the story about drugs since i didn't do any drugs in the ussr in fact in all my NUMBER_TOKEN years i tried smoking weed only twice once i was at the farm when i worked with mexicans back in NUMBER_TOKEN or NUMBER_TOKEN and one time when i had a layover in amsterdam and that's it and of course if i'll be heavily involved with drugs back in NUMBER_TOKENs when i became a teenager i probably won't be talking to you right now and before we begin i would like to ask you for a small favor youtube probably won't like this video it probably will block monetization but you can always support my work by clicking that little heart with the dollar sign below any video on my channel and you can give me a little tip thank you in advance pacifa okay so END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN