Bormotukha

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Russian fortified wines

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::summary Russian fortified wines ::

Bormotukha (Russian бормотуха) and chernila (literally ink) were colloquial names for cheap flavored fortified wines, commonly named "port wine" or "vermouth", that were produced in the Soviet Union. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XFje-RiHeisC&dq=Bormotukha&pg=PA323 |title=Encyclopedia of Soviet life - Google Book Search |accessdate=2009-04-04 |isbn=978-1-4128-2256-5 |last1=Zemtsov |first1=Ilya |publisher=Transaction Publishers Examples of bormotukha were Agdam (named after a city in Azerbaijan) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_G59NFbNpREC&dq=Agdam+wine&pg=PA59 |title=Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist ... - Google Book Search |accessdate=2009-04-04 |isbn=978-0-9649497-6-8 |last1=Levin |first1=Gregory Moiseyevich |date=2006 |publisher=Pomegranate Roads ** and ** (colloquially called "Three Axes"). ВЕЩИ ЭПОХИ : «Три топорика» (портвейн «777»)

During Mikhail Gorbachev’s anti-alcohol campaign, production of legal bormotukha brands stopped, and the corresponding brands didn't recover. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lnu3FPUUrZoC&dq=Gorbachev++prohibition&pg=PA58 |title=Gorbachev and his revolution - Google Book Search |accessdate=2009-04-04 |isbn=978-0-312-16482-9 |last1=Galeotti |first1=Mark |date=15 March 1997 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan

In 2010 a Russian businessman tried to register the trademark "Solntsedar". The application was rejected with the rationale: "The applied designation reproduces the name of a cheap surrogate alcoholic drink, widespread in the USSR from the late 50s to the mid-80s, which received a household name as an image and sign of the era of stagnation, and therefore registration of this designation as a trademark will be contrary to public interests."

In Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko declared production of beer to be an element of "national food security", because beer "pulls people away from drinking bormotukha and hard liquors".

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  1. [https://dzen.ru/a/W2FYBH24mgCrWJBf?experiment=942752 СУРРОГАТЫ АЛКОГОЛЯ. Ч. IV], [[ Dzen.ru]], October 15, 2019
  2. [https://sport24.ru/life/article-solntsedar-samyy-ubiystvennyy-alkogol-v-sssr-istoriya-legendarnogo-napitka Самый убийственный алкоголь в СССР — из алжирского винограда: «Термоядерный удар под названием…» Солнцедар!], Sport24, October 2023
  3. "Лукашенко объявил пиво элементом национальной безопасности".

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