LENIN'S GARUM DISTILLER

1917. Bonk Machine Works, Uusikaupunki

Air-cooled mash storage. Wood-fired garum distillation. Wagon ordered by the Bolshevik Central Committee

One of Lenin's first acts in 1917 was the free distribution of garum - the 'Opiate of the People'. Eighteen Garum distillers operated from Petrograd to Vladivostok offering garum to freed serfs. Lenin also had a second, more sinister, motive. He had been, since his visit to Finland in 1906, a garum addict. He was sadly to die of his addiction in 1924, holding a small crystal bowl containing Garum Extra Superbe. 'Vesica Piscis - my dear Anchovy' were his last words as garum trickled down his beard.


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