Interesting facts about the alcoholic usages of soldiers and officers of the Red Army. Military alcoholism is a myth.3

And the second circumstance decided to mention. 

2. Probably somewhere in the 70 years from the "intelligent doctors" spread the myth (?) About how the Red Army soldiers became alcoholics after the war precisely because of these drug addicts 100 grams. 

I do not know what was really there, I will give only my value judgment. It seems that this is normal in science, when different versions and explanations of the fact are expressed. When criticized, in order to establish the truth. After all, true science does not recognize points, only commas.

 Firstly, among veterans, non-Slavs after the war, there were not a very large number of alcoholics. Secondly, the excess wine portion was reduced to an acceptable-100 grams and (relatively speaking) only for combat units. Of these, few survived. Many survivors were commissioned as invalids a month later-a different stay at the front. When would he "sleep in the war" in such a short time? Thirdly, this vodka went to combat units only before the offensive, and after these attacks few of the soldiers remained alive, and accordingly did not become an alcoholic. Fourth, the vodka was plundered, because it was a front and back currency. 

Only the staff received vodka as long as it should, and probably even more.

Probably, it is better to give examples with the indication of popular, well-known personalities, and at the same time uneducated. I came across a network of "muddy" indications of the supposedly frontline alcoholism of the famous Daniil Andreev, author of the cult mystic book "The Rose of the World."

But information about Andreev's alcoholism is unreliable, sources are unreliable. The author wrote his famous book, when he served time. In Vladimir prison, where alcohol was all sorts of napryazhonka. Andreev is still a front-line soldier: He was recognized as weak-willed and served in the funeral team. In war, this is the right thing, but very ... ambiguous, or something. To the hands of the funeral workers who buried the fallen after the battles (usually at night), money, watches, medallions, chains, rings-all valuable. Perhaps, they used inadvertently inside merged from all the flasks, including officers. This excess consumption of alcohol is found nowadays among gravediggers in cemeteries and orderlies in morgues. In general, nothing bad I will not say, I will only note that the veterans of the funeral teams for some reason never stressed their service. Among them it is customary to tell something like: "He served on the heroic First Ukrainian Front, went through the whole war ..." Andreev died in 1959. I do not believe in the alcoholism of Andreev DL, as completely indifferent to the content of his mystical book, alas. but this is all for me just high-intellectual folklore, no more ...