100 grams for bravery: «for» and «against»

The article provides a sequence of the introduction of «wine serving» in Russia since Tsar Peter I, observed a change in attitude to alcohol in society and the military environment, are ways of dealing with addiction to alcohol, analyzed the reasons for the introduction of the Second World War the issuance of 40 ° vodka in the amount of 100 grams. The paper contains a full list of the decrees of the Supreme Council of the People’s Commissar of Defence and orders related to the introduction of alcohol and consider the sequence of changes in the rules of issue of the war, a trend of steady decline of military categories, which gave alcohol. There is no conclusive evidence that the issue of alcohol helps fight alcohol led to an increase in inappropriate behavior troops, scattering attention and concentration, prevented medical care for wounds, raising the number of frostbite in the winter and in general to the growth of «non-combat» casualties. After the war, the introduction of alcohol subjected to a lot of criticism, but then «drug movskie» acquired a certain romanticism areolas, becoming one of the distinctive character of the events, all but the only way to deal with fear. What is new is and look at the whole diverse range of war and man at war, through the consideration of such important for everyday life of military issue as the use of alcohol in the war.