Closing the theme of the "Commissar", the Red Army considered that it would be appropriate to tell you, dear friends, about the following. 1. Soviet soldiers (primarily young adults and especially those called from the peasants) at that time either did not know, or ignored the corkscrew and the culture of consumption of European (non-Soviet) alcohol. At least in the sources I have repeatedly come across the descriptions of eyewitnesses-the officers about drinking the trophy, whether looted (name it as you want, the meaning will not change) of alcohol on the lands of Germany. There, with the bottled European alcohol, the Red Army soldier acted as follows.
He did not apply a corkscrew, he just beat off the bottles of three or four bottles. He poured their contents into his soldier's kettle without parsing the brand of alcohol. Slowly I drank from the kettle almost to the glass at the bottom. The remains of alcohol with glass splashed out, the pot was rubbed with the sleeve of a greatcoat.
If there was only one wine, the procedure was repeated until it became intoxicated. If the wine came across cognac and other strong, then stayed on one pot. A bit like the way Russian Cossacks during the foreign campaign of 1812-1813 were drinking champagne with buckets ... horses))).
Of course, it is only in the sense that both the Cossacks of the 19th century and the Soviet soldiers of the first half of the 20th century "did not respect" the light European wine.