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Moonshine
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Moonshine
A highly distilled corn whiskey often flavored with peaches, apples or other fruits, which is produced and distributed illegally to circumvent federal tax on alcohol
moonshine
Toxicology Illicitly distilled whiskey. See Lead poisoning, Saturnine gout.
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Or indeed, should you run out of vodka - easily done, as the nights are long and cold, and shops few and far between - you run the risk of falling victim to a particularly bad batch of samogon , the illicit hooch, brewed from anything from apples to plywood, that underpins and undermines rural life.
Russia's land of lost churches by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Collective farms and their subsidiary enterprises, owners of 'small means of transport', vodka manufacture, both legal and samogon, and distribution, and the Caucasus republics (Georgia in particular) proved particularly rich sources of illicit (from the system's perspective) monetisation and private 'entrepreneurial' activity (Grossman, 1977b, pp.
Command versus 'shadow': the conflicted soul of the Soviet economy (1) by Ericson, Richard E. / Comparative Economic Studies
Efforts to limit production and sales of "official" vodka resulted in a increased sales of moonshine, or samogon in Russian parlance.
The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia by McReynolds, Louise / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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