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More About Toilet Paper -- Soviet Bloc
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As I wrote a few days ago, all the world loves toilet paper. Here is a further aspect for your consideration.
"Toilet Paper Usage in the Former Soviet Bloc and the Transition,"
Mike Haynes, 2000, on
the web at <http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1958/tp.htm>.
(Thanks to Al Pergande for bringing this to our attention.)
The author is Senior Lecturer in European Studies at the School of
Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of Wolverhampton,
UK. He explains that
This collection of data arises from a debate over the social impact of the transition in Russia and the former Eastern bloc.
The data cover a wide geographical and temporal area, including:
Availability
Affordability
Toilet Paper and the Russian Transition
Moscow/ St. Petersburg and General European Russia
Irkutsk
Saratov
Siberia
Vladivostok
Turkmenistan
Lithuania
Poland
Bulgaria
Romania
Yugoslavia
Poland
We eagerly await further reports on this subject.
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