During peacekeeping duty with the US Army in Bosnia-Herzogovinia and Serbia-Montenegro in the late 1990"s, there was a brigade of Russian soldiers across the river from my brigade. As a physician, I had a counterpart and colleague who I shared time with in caring for our joint military "community". Sadly, alcoholism was rampant in their camp. Despite alcohol rations, there were Russian soldiers who sought other forms of inebriation. My Russian colleague and I attended to severe cases including one fatality who drank vehicle fluids.
It was a very eye opening experience, and a sad one.
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