Tag: Three Bottles or Riot

  • Grandsons will honor relative with Soviet prohibition-themed distillery in Keyport

    Grandsons will honor relative with Soviet prohibition-themed distillery in Keyport

    When Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev issued an anti-alcohol campaign in the mid-1980s that entailed a soft prohibition and subsequently raised the price of vodka, wine and beer, the new legislation, which was similar to America’s liquor prohibition in 1920, ignited an era of bootlegging and hoarding of supplies. As individuals throughout the Soviet…