Mary Margaret Park

Okay, not really, but I suppose it’s no wonder that the Soviets are master Vodka producers.

I wonder how they keep all the factory workers sober…can you imagine a bunch of drunken Russians milling around the factory? Touting the days of Gorbachev’s Perestroika?

I worked for “AE Staley” in ‘Decatur Illinois’ one summer. They make grain alcohol there to add to gas, you know, gasohol? Anyway, when they first started, they had a terrible time keeping the factory workers (aka “Us”) from dipping into the white lightening.

In the end, they had to add wood alcohol to the mix (to keep the workers sober).

Nuts, isn’t it?

Do you suppose refining all of that Russian Vodka was just practice for the real show; refining oil into gas?

They are the world’s largest gas producers, and with the price of oil rising, it has made them wealthy.

I have a feeling that the old Soviets of the late 70’s are coming back to haunt our days. Is this latest scrimmage with Georgia simply a prelude to the Soviets reclaiming their superpower status?