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It's not customary, it's a widely recognized problem that a significant portion of the population starts the day with liquor. Maybe for blue collar workers it's more normalized, but if a white collar has such habit then they will try to cover it up.

Yes, the alcoholic parts.

In their defence, if you had to wake up to being in east Europe you'd drink too.

> In parts of Eastern and Southern Europe it is customary to have a shot of spirits in the morning.

Meh, the local word for Eastern European people having to have shots of spirits in the morning is "an alcoholic". It is just there is a lot of them.