The bottle led to the downfall of Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia between 1992 and the last day of 1999. A shot of the vodka gave Boris Yeltsin the necessary Dutch courage to mount tanks outside parliament in 1991, portraying the heroic, defiant image that would catapult him to ultimate power over the vast territory the world calls the Russian federation.
His drinking in his first term was more amusing than alarming.