ZHUKOV'S COKE | 2006-05-23
General Zhukov was a Soviet commander in World War II.
He tried Coca-Cola in some parties with Americans and he LOVED it.
But Coca-Cola was a symbol of capitalism and it was banned in Stalin's USSR.
So the Coca Cola company made up special batches of Coke for General Zhukov. During World War II, fifty years before the clear cola came on the market, they left out the caramel coloring so it was a clear liquid and put it in cases marked Vodka.
This was especially funny to me because I had spent many years in my active alcoholic stage trying to make people think that my rum with coke ( actually it was more rum with a splash of coke) was just Coca-Cola.
But Zhukov's life depended on people's believing he was drinking straight vodka.
I am sure Stalin knew what was going on, but he couldn't spare Zhukov. So Zhukov got away with it.
I didn't.
The fact that I smelled like a distillery and was staggering drunk, so nobody was fooled into thinking I was just drinking Coca-Cola.
But in that condition, I never noticed.