The photo of cigarettes simply demonstrates how the tobacco industry worked in the USSR, what people smoked, and that even through cigarettes it was possible to carry out the ideology of the country of those years.
During the years of Soviet power, there were much more brands of cigarettes than varieties of sausage and other types of consumer goods. Judging by the advertising of cigarettes on the packs, one can see that cigarette brands were dedicated to various festivals, cities, and space flights. The names were very different: Rechflot, Guards, Okhota, Sever, Reis, etc. From the pictures on cigarette packs one could study the ideology and geography of the country. Filter cigarettes appeared in the USSR in 1966, when the Moscow tobacco factory released Java cigarettes. And already in the 80s, cigarettes without a filter began to be considered unprestigious. Some of the most popular domestic brands were: Java, Cosmos, Stolichnye, Prima, Soyuz-Apollon, Laika. Bulgarian cigarettes Radopi, Opal, Tu-134, VT, and Stewardess were very popular at that time. And some liked strong cigarettes from friendly Cuba.
And at the end of the 80s, during the period of perestroika, there was a tobacco crisis on an all-Union scale. During this period, even the so-called “bulls” were sold secondhand. And America extended a helping hand, or rather the hand that decided to poison the strongest power in the world. And from that moment on, the population of the country began smoking and being drawn into nicotine addiction. A huge range of tobacco products from the West has flooded into the market. For some reason, our state did not have money for food, which was in short supply at that time, but there were options on how to provide the people with tobacco and envelop the country in cigarette smoke
