[dz1975]
Brez zamere, ampak močno dvomim da si kdaj spoznal Malenkova, Vorošilova, Ordžonikidzeja, Molotova, Hruščeva, Bulganina, Konieva in ostalih iz Stalinovega kroga...

Seveda jih nisem poznal, sem kljub 67 letom danes, za njihovo obdobje in položaj bil takrat malo premlad.
Sem bil prvič v Moskvi proti koncu časa Brežnjeva, ko so take pivske manire bile še vedno v modi tam, kaviar in vodka, in so ti Stalinovi podvigi na večerjah še bili v obtoku.
Sploh pa ni bil moj komentar namenjen oceni ali je bil Stalin vodko, ali vino pivec, ampak temu, da, če je lahko spil dvakrat več vina od ostalih in ostal na nogah, gostje pa pod mizo, brez soli v žlicah kaviarja mu to ne bi uspelo.
Na žlice slanega kaviarja verjetno nihče ni bil niti pozoren.
Kaj o vodki in kaviarju ne poznaš nobene knjige iz tistih časov?

Navedek iz ene od knjig:
After inking the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Stalin welcomed the Nazi delegation with a 24-course banquet in the Kremlin. But before anyone could eat, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov proposed rounds of toasts to every member of the two assembled delegations—22 in all. Just when the Germans were finally preparing to eat, the visibly inebriated Molotov declared: “Now we’ll drink to the members of the delegations who could not attend this dinner.”
The (understandably) drunken German foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, stammered toward Stalin to express his “admiration for Russian throats compared with those of us Germans.” The great dictator chuckled, revealing that his own cup held only a light Crimean wine, the same color as the “devilish vodka” he made everyone else drink. Japanese foreign minister Yosuke Matsuoka had a similar banquet experience two years later, resulting in a similar pact of non-aggression.