The Soviet economy was already too dependent on "drunk money" from alcohol sale, and with the war in Afghanistan, Chernobyl disaster, and inefficiency of planned economy, Soviet Union collapsed.
Gorbachev's successors first declared an open market for alcohol production, but seeing that the market was overflooded by cheap imports and low quality counterfeits, which also didn't bring any money to the state, Russian government have reinstated state monopoly on vodka production, where only a handful of state-approved producers were allowed to run vodka distilleries.
To this day, you can't buy in Russia vodka that isn't Russian (like Finlandia, Absolut, Van Gogh, etc.).
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