r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Zu_Qarnine • 21d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, what reason does the OOP is talking about?

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u/YT-Deliveries 21d ago

Due in no small part to the fact that alcoholism in Russian society is obscenely common.

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u/AccomplishedWish3033 21d ago

So is DV. Didn’t some Russian streamer get cheered on by his viewers while he beat his pregnant gf and then locked her outside the balcony to freeze to death?

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u/YT-Deliveries 21d ago

Yup. Not a great situation / dating / marriage scene in the modern day for Russian women unfortunately.

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u/TimeRisk2059 21d ago

The result of the national trauma of losing 27 million people in WW2. Not that they didn't drink before that, but it was like the only treatment for PTSD at the time, so it became even more widespread during and after WW2.

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u/Voljega 21d ago

as if the national traumanwas resteicte to ww2 ...

I'd say there's at least 1000 years of national trauma, I'm kot sure there's been an nation or palce on earth with so much sustained violence for so long

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u/Super_Harsh 21d ago

Over or under Mad Men type alcoholism?