Byłabym bardzo wdzięczna za sprawdzenie i zwrócenie uwagi na błędy w tekście poniżej. Chodzi mi głównie o to, czy są jakieś gramatyczne wpadki i o to, czy może nie powinnam jakichś słów zastąpić innymi, bo o wiele z nich nie byłam pewna.
The topic of my presentation is 'Eastern European Culture And History of Drinking'. During my presentation I'm going to talk mostly about Poland, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Ukraine and Russia. Every single one of those countries has its own culture, but they all have a lot in common. Some parts of their culture are similar, they also share some history and attitude in drinking alcohol. Of course not all people in these countries think in the same way, though opinion of drinking in that part of world is rather common
A People were never just drinking, they were drinking until they were unconscious.Also in those days there was a law saying that peasents and other poor people were forced to buy alcohol from arisocracy and nobility, so they could earn more money. People were bound to buy alcohol, so they were buying and drinking it. Things got even more searious in the 19th century. It was like one big party that lasted for around one hundred years. There were inns and taverns everywhere and alcohol became very cheap because people found out how to make vodka from poteatos. Everyone was drinking, regardless of their sex, age or social status. People were saying, that if you are already drinking alcohol, you should do it everyday. Peasents weren't receiving money for their jobs, they were lcohol has been produced and drunk in Europe for thousands of years, usually made out of whatever materials were locally available. Most countries in Eastern Europe were too far to north to drink wine produced for example in Italy, so they drunk beer and mead made of honey. Mead was very expensive, strong and heady drink, drunk during weddings or different parties. Beer was very common liquor, drunk everyday to the dinner. The situation was like that for hundred of years, but things changed in the 16th century. People started considering beer as something tacky and mead was slowly being replaced by vodka, because it was cheaper to produce. People in Eastern Europe weren't drinking very much those days, but vodka was more much more available than mead, so things changed again. At the end of the 18th century Eastern Europe became famous for drinking alcohol. Alcoholic libations were very common, every social meeting and business deals were ending with alcohol.receiving vodka. Farmers, merchants, workers, artists and other people were refusing to work if they haven't gotten alcohol. Even if people were working, their work wasn't productive, because they were drunk. They were laying drunk on the streets in the middle of the day and that was something completly normal. People also used to believe, that vodka was the best medicine and they were even giving it to the little babies to calm them down.
Some people though, mostly priests from churches, were worried about the problem of alcoholism. They wanted to convince people to stop drinking so they were visiting inns and intimidating people that they will go to the hell. They were setting up groups at churches and that was something similar to what we call AA groups today. It was working sometimes, but only briefly. People were returnig to their old habits and drinking even more. Eastern Europe was the most addicted to alcohol part of the world.
Secound World War broke out and vodka still was something very important. War changed everyone's life and people were using alcohol in many ways. The most common reason of drinking was will to forget about everything what was going on. People were also drinking to cheer themselves up, to kill the time, or to make the integration easier. Almost everyone always had a bottle of vodka side by side. The war finally ended, but it didn't mean, that people stopped drinking. Life still was far from being problem-free. Even during the war, people didn't suffer because of the lack of alcohol.It was produced by great companies and illegally by people in their houses. There was a big crisis in the Eastern Europe after the war and very often vodka was the only thing that people could buy at the shops. Alcohol was taking its toll. In the 1980s only in Poland there were 3 millions addicted people.The polish government was finnaly trying to deal with the problem of alcohol abuse. The first thing they wanted to do was holding back people from making alcohol on their own. Poland was earning a lot from sale of the alcohol, but they wanted to extend incomes. They increased vodka prices and pioneered alcohol limit. People only could buy vodka if they had ration stamps. The government allowed for buying alcohol only from 1pm to 8pm. When 1pm was approaching people always were standing in a long line in order to buy it. It was the end of the 1990s when things finally changed. People put the breaks on vodka. They still drink it a lot, but now the most common drink is beer.