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I can tell from experience that this may be due to them graduating from a technical university in Poland.

Young men[0] around here still bond via drinking lethal amounts of vodka. I know of at least one death caused by this.

[0] The gender imbalance in CS is so severe that I remember bragging to my friends how I was not only acquainted with both of the female students in our year at the Warsaw University of Technology, but also both of the ones that started studying CS in 2010 at the University of Warsaw.