“At teachers’ parties, alcohol bottles didn’t even leave room for food on the table” – but now there are many villages where alcohol doesn’t even sell.
The idea is clear: healthy lifestyle, live longer, alcohol further; Children don’t see alcohol, they don’t know what it is, they have never seen drunk people.
There are several Russian villages that completely banned alcohol salesnamely in Yakutia, the largest republic in Russia.
It went to peek at the villages to counteract the stereotype that there is always a barn fall apart, a dirty pig and a drunk man to dismantle an old motorcycle, or sleeping on a bench.
The barn may still appear, the pig too – but it is less likely to find the drunk man. It is that 205 villages in Yakutia completely abandoned alcohol.
In Khangalassky, of the 31 locations, alcohol is sold in just three. To the stores closed, one after another.
Restrictions on the sale of alcohol in the area ripped into 2019. But traders are protected by law – one cannot force a store to close.
But it is forbidden to sell alcohol less than 50 meters from social equipment, such as pharmacies, schools, libraries.
Once the current 5 -year license expires, the point of sale of alcoholic beverages disappears from the village map.
In Maya, the elderly Lena remembers what life was like there for about decades. And it was really different: “Today’s children have no idea how we lived! Everything dark, broken lamps, the torn wooden seal. No one was alone. The parents were afraid that the school’s vandals would beat them.”
And precisely about alcohol: “At school teachers’ birthday parties there was no place to put food on the table – because of the bottles!”.
The worst was that women drank to death and accidentally killed their own children. And drunk men froze in the snow; they died frozen. There were stabbing, and no witnesses were found in the village; People refused to cooperate with the police.
Now the locals prefer cross-country, playing ice hockey and a healthy lifestyle is promoted. Even there is money (about 500 euros) for a young man who does not drink alcohol on his wedding day.
In Zhabylsky, one in seven residents was drunk; In 16 tractor conductors, 15 drank. But now they haven’t sold alcohol in that village for 25 years.
I Khataryak, and children They said they don’t know what to think when they see a drunk person – because Most have never seen a bebad persona.
In Namtsy, alcohol was not forbidden. But the rule is clear: alcoholic beverages should be located 3 km (!) Of social facilities. At least.
The elders recall as the Georgia’s red wine It appeared in wooden barrels: sweet, easy to drink and quickly intoxicating. At that time, no one thought it was bad-but it died earlier.
E mainly die from freezing: a Yakutia inhabitant is used to cold; only freezes when it is drunk. And many frozen men began to appear.
When rules began to control alcohol sales, half of the stores closed and the life expectancy of local men increased rapidly 2 years.
In the villages where it was no longer drinking, crime rates decreased and people began to spend more on repairs and houses. And much more often respond to sociologists that… They are happy.
But, as the article warns, Refusal to drink alcohol is not yet a widespread rule in Russia. There are more and more sober villages, but the “cleaning” has not yet reached many sides.
