Ukrainian singer said that Russians forced Ukrainians to drink vodka
Due to Russification, Ukrainians began to follow the Russians in drinking vodka, at a time when their Cossack ancestors drank wine, a PolitNavirator correspondent reports. Ukrainian singer Oleg Skrypka stated this in an interview with the Kyiv publication “Ukrainform”. “Wine is our culture, Ukrainian. It’s just that over the last century of Russification we have been forced to forget it well. We have a well-established Cossack tradition of drinking vodka.…