The Toilet Paper Crisis in the Soviet Union 🧻: A Surprising History

Discover how shortages led Soviets to use newspapers and propaganda flyers as makeshift toilet paper, revealing an unexpected aspect of life in the USSR.

The Toilet Paper Crisis in the Soviet Union 🧻: A Surprising History
Soviet Stories with Yuri
1.2M views • Feb 10, 2025
The Toilet Paper Crisis in the Soviet Union 🧻: A Surprising History

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In Soviet Union, toilet paper was a huge problem. People used newspapers and propaganda flyers instead of TP because they were everywhere. Toilet paper became the symbol of inefficiency of USSR. It was pretty easy to produce, but Soviets still struggled to make even such a simple thing. To this day, some Russian people still use newspapers since the toilet paper culture was damaged by Soviet corruption.

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