I am curious what the goal is. The first is pretty, but stills are notoriously easy to replace and bulk grain alcohol is cheap. Are they producing something other than vodka here?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Distilleries commonly produce a variety of alcohols, not just ethanol for human consumption. First ones that come in mind are methanol for antifreeze solutions and isopropyl alcohol for sanitizing and industrial solvents.

Cutting the vodka production is a nice bonus hit to the morale, but damaging the supply lines of military production is most likely the main goal here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

The vodka!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Not the distillery! 😭

[–] Travelator 4 points 3 weeks ago

That's either brilliant or horrible, I'm still trying to decide which.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

May they go blind from homemade hooch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What is the row of pixels in the middle of the video for? Some kind of watermark?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yes, it's a blurred-out watermark of a Russian channel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, appreciate it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Do you mean the lense flair?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Fake News! This was obviously another highly successful rocket launch of the space program of Glorious Mother Russia!