SPAM , no joke. Russia’s Life-Saver: Lend-Lease Aid to the U.S.S.R. in World War II (Book Review) » HistoryNet A wartime cartoon in The New Yorker shows the docks of Murmansk covered with off-loaded containers and a Soviet official having trouble finding the word "spam" in the dictionary. Spam was one of the many food items sent to the former Soviet Union by the United States under the Lend-Lease Program first suggested by Winston Churchill, to which the United States contributed the major portion
SPAM that's the junk you get in your e-mails, no? I don't know about the popularity of it though. What was popular was samogon and tobacco. Samogon is translated as 'moonshine' according to google. As goes for tobacco, the number of smokers during the war was absolutely stunning. Everybody smoked. It was like a currency as well, if you wanted to swap for something you could always use tobacco. You were considered weird if you didn't smoke The latter is a screenshot from the movie 'They Fought for their Motherland'. Brilliant flick. Directed by Sergey Bondarchuk back in the 80's, it still remains the war movie in Russia.
The Spam was probably included in the over 2 Billion "other" canned meats. [FONT="]Tushenka, canned 166,650,966 lbs. 70,335,231. Other canned meats, excl. chicken 2,405,696,825 lbs. 180,764,722. [/FONT]
Is SPAM even edible at least? Here's another pic of the smoking Soviets, I'm on a roll. This is from another film...'Ivan the Great'.
