MOSCOW. (Vlad Grinkevich, RIA Novosti economic...

The period from 1919 to 1933 in United States history is known as Prohibition, or The Noble Experiment. It later became the plot of many gangster movies and a symbol of futile government efforts far beyond America.

Alcoholism and ways to deal with it have reemerged into the spotlight in Russia, as the government announced drinking a national disaster and called for a crackdown on alcohol. However, a new government policy - the recently published Concept of Government Policy to Reduce Alcohol Abuse and Prevent Alcoholism through 2020 - does not suggest that the fight will be easily won.

The public often condemns the initiators of prohibition bills, dismissing their efforts as much campaigning with little result - people do not abandon drinking and the bans are eventually lifted. However, it was only the Eighteenth Amendment that failed so notoriously, as the U.S. government essentially lost the battle against international criminal syndicates, who were smuggling the contraband

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