VICE News | 72 Russians have died this week from drinking bath oil because they couldn't afford real alcohol VICE News Russia's “surrogate” alcohol problem took a deadly turn over the weekend, with large swathes of people in the Siberian city Irkutsk drinking poisonous bath oil that contained alcohol. Seventy-two have died, leaving three children orphaned, and another ... Putin orders crackdown on vodka substitutes after bath oil deaths "When I tried to drink deadly bath oil" 62 Die in Siberia After Drinking Counterfeit Bath Oil |