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Looked it up in Google Images and it's funny how they made the label in German to mimic the feel of a luxury product. I guess German things must have been statu

• hnbad 3y ago
  "They" were a company in Hamburg, so I guess they made the label in German because they produced it in Germany. Their primary foreign market was apparently Russia and Poland, at the time. The significance of 1992 is that Russia became the Russian Federation in December 1991 and the early years of the Russian Federation were defined by a massive market deregulation, massive privatization and extreme corruption but more importantly to this anecdote: an opening of the Russian market for international trade. The "Feinsprit" (or "Primasprit") was safe for human consumption (if watered down at least) but it was essentially a cheap industrial product. It's also noteworthy that a similar product had been available in the GDR (which collapsed in 1990) but was apparently fairly expensive and hard to come by, so likely not produced at scale and for export.