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How Soviet ‘sobering-up’ stations operated and what replaced them
MOSCOW, RUSSIA. August 1, 1993. Detainees are taken to a detox centre
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A cold bath, a towel soaked with ammonia in your face and the threat of dismissal from work – these are but a few methods of treatment that Soviet sobering-up stations applied to people. Find out how Soviet drunkards were brought to their senses and what happened to those “shelters” for alcoholics.
A narcologist, a plump middle-aged woman with a short haircut, is sitting at a long desk in an assembly hall. There is a microphone in front of her, into which she - in a monotonous voice – is describing the dangers of alcoholism to an audience of a several dozen unkempt men with wrinkled, drooping faces, who have not yet fully recovered from yet another hangover. ....

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