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Set Rare Belomorkanal Metal Cigarettes Display Box Empty* Pack 1980s USSR
$ 4.75
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Description
Metal box - blue, black.When ordering, please specify which color of the box is preferred.
Empty*
cigarettes box Belomorkanal. 25 pcs.
Made in USSR 1980s.
Made at the Usman Tobacco Factory (USSR) in 1980s
For intended use. Into the collection. Original gift.
Size 3 1/2" * 3 1/2" * 3/4" (9 cm x 9 cm x 2 cm)
Interesting facts about Belomorkanal" :
The diameter of Soviet cigarettes, including "Belomorkanal" - 7.62 mm: allegedly in order to launch the production of cartridges on the same machines if necessary.
- In the Soviet Union, cigarettes were used to pay bribes. At the same time, tobacco was extracted from it, and a rolled-up banknote was inserted into the empty sleeve. After that, the recipient of the bribe was offered a cigarette and handed this cigarette.
- In addition, a pack of "Belomor" was used for riddles. It was "fashionable" to look for different numbers and images in the packaging drawing. In most cases, you had to have a very unusual imagination and a lot of attention to find them. The most resourceful saw numbers 14, 39, 29 in the drawing of a cigarette pack, and also found an image of a hand saw, a head in a cap, and a squirrel.
As a joke, smokers offered to" young " to find a bear on a pack of "Belomor". The irony was that there was no bear on the pack, and the correct answer to the riddle was: "the bear hid behind the mountains." Here is such a harsh Soviet humor.
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