Actually, Czar Nicholas The Second (the last Czar, 1898-1917) severely limited vodka production, and his government promoted anti alcohol programs, which cut alcohol consumption to less than 1 liter per person a year (which is next to nothing), practice kept well into the 1930s, when Stalin reopened vodka distilleries.
Even then, alcohol consumption per capita rose only up to like 2-3 liters per person (in Western Europe and the US it's like 8-10).
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