>>>No one should make you just drink any one beverage or stop you from drinking the beverage of you choice.
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>>Or that even though you have been prudent enough to accumulate a gallon of beverage, you have to give some to somebody else that hasn't been as prudent.
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>I actually had an experience with that. I was in the military and out in the middle of nowhere and our rations were 'rationed.' I nibbled on mine to keep mine going and others did not. Everyone was told to make theirs last, but some folks just won't do it. Needless to say after 3 days when no support arrived it was expected by general consensus that I would share mine and if I did not, then there was something wrong with me. I did share my rations, but it always irked me that it was 'expected.'

Your commissars did an excellent job indoctrinating your mates with egalitarianism and uravnilovka (the Russian term we adopted, a "leveling", i.e. everyone gets paid the same).