I know a Polish survivor of Stalin's Siberian Gulag's who stated that
currency was non-existent and that vodka was the currency during the 1930s
and 40s. I will ask him about "Polish" vodka.
Michael Carolan
Visiting Professor
Clark University
Worcester MA
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Subject: "Polish" vodka
Does anybody know a historian who studies "Polish" vodka?
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David M. Fahey
Professor Emeritus of History
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056
USA