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odiroot on Aug 31, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: HBO cuts the cord, brings streaming-only service ...

That's not actually true. Russians were first.

We were probably the first to produce some crude kind of brandy ("winiak" in Polish).

It's actually funny that our most successfully exported vodka is Zubrowka. It's not considered that great here. I guess it's the novelty factor.

pavel_lishin on Aug 31, 2012 [–]

I know Wikipedia isn't the end-all of historical scholarship, but according to the entry, most existing records point to Poland, not Russia.

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