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?

[–] Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

The vodka!

[–] gerbler@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not the distillery! 😭

[–] Travelator@thelemmy.club 4 points 3 months ago

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

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

May they go blind from homemade hooch

[–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks, appreciate it!

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Do you mean the lense flair?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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