Quote (Palasan @ 19 Nov 2022 00:03)
Nice you found a new word that defines how Kremlin brainwashed you and your people into willing slavery.
I would say desperate Zombies. Their women are drinking and have 10%+ fetal alcohol syndrome. It is really scary.
The truth hurts really, really much.
The world's heaviest drinkers are paying an even heavier price ... more and more Russian children are being born with foetal alcohol syndrome.
On average Russians consume an average 14.5 litres pure alcohol every year, three times more than is considered healthy.
Its legacy extends from birth to the grave.
Eight-year-old Andrei has never spoken. He has a mental age of six months and is not expected to live much past the age of 12.
Andrei's parents were both alcoholics and abandoned him soon after birth. He has spent all his life at Children's Home Number 18 in Moscow where almost half of the 56 children suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Many of the children we have here were born to alcoholic parents with various health defects and most have defects so serious that they will remain with them for the rest of their lives
SUPER CAPTION: Dr Khabib Khairetdinov, Children's Home number 18
No one knows exactly how many alcohol-damaged babies are born every year in Russia, but experts agree that alcohol consumption has increased dramatically in recent years, blighting (m) millions of lives and casting a pall over Russia's economic revival.
Apart from a brief time under Mikhail Gorbachev, heavy drinking among Russians has been tolerated and sometimes even celebrated by Russian authorities.
And it has become a very cheap way for Russians to forget their problems
SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Before the all the changes, ten years ago, a bottle of vodka cost 2 or three times more than a kilogram of meat, but now it costs two or three times less than the same kilogram of meat.
SUPER CAPTION: Prof. Alexander Nemtsov, Alcohol Policy Centre
President Yeltsin's government is taking much of the blame for the present rise in alcoholism. Doctors claim they've have allowed cheap, potent spirits to be sold virtually unregulated.
Even at 9 o'clock in the morning, there is a regular stream of buyers at the vodka kiosk.
Some can't even wait until they are home before they take a shot. But it is not just they who are suffering.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian) The huge abuse of alcohol of course has a tremendous effect on their descendants, on the ill-health of individuals, on their families, and on society as a whole
SUPER CAPTION: Prof Alexander Nemtsov, Alcohol Policy Centre
And always it is the innocent who suffer most. Three year-old Alina was born without any eyes, and six year-old Sasha still cannot walk.
These are the children of the new Russia, condemned to a life of unhappiness by the country's oldest enemy - alcohol.