Breaking Bad is the Soviet version. 50 years ago, the USSR defeated the drug cartel, but did not destroy the mafia. How did it happen? — New Newspaper Europe

In the spring of 1975, the Institute of Chemistry at the USSR Academy of Sciences launched the production of synthesized pervitin in an underground laboratory. The “vigor pills,” as the Americans called them, began to enter the drug market and were in high demand. However, the industrial production of the drug has led to the fact that Interior Minister Nikolay Shchelokov became personally interested in drug trafficking. This attention was worth …