A young pair carrying a whole garland of rolls of toilet paper as the woman turns her head back, with happy smile on her face

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   kravietz 🦇 (kravietz@agora.echelon.pl)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jun-2026 05:52:30 JST kravietz 🦇

   Communist #Poland 1980 toilet paper was an extremely valuable trophy these times, because it was in constant shortage. Once you waited in queue for anything from 6 to 12 hours, you could only buy so many rolls of paper, which is why the happy pair on the photo carries a whole garland, as if it was a trophy hunted in a jungle.

   But hey, bookstores were full of collected works of Marx, Engels, Lenin etc printed on paper, so you know…