I missed an important date.
On November 3, 1969, at the Siask pulp and paper factory, for the first time in the Soviet Union, mass production of modern toilet paper began - in rolls.
As usual, advanced production from the West was purchased: special machinery for paper production from Walmsley in Great Britain; The order was also made by English engineers.
It may seem strange now, but in the early years agitation and propaganda had to be used to teach people to use toilet paper - most of them really didn't understand what it was for when there was newspaper cut into pieces.
Why did I write at the very beginning about the modern appearance of this paper in rolls?
Because it is contrary to popular opinion that there was supposedly no toilet paper in the Soviet Union.
It was only in the form of sheets. During the NEP, Artels established its production from waste paper. Foreigners mention that it was available in expensive hotels in Moscow at least by 1925.
In 1940, after the annexation of Lithuania, it took over the fabric house that produced it.
In 1946, as compensation, its production lines were taken from Germany to a small factory in Belarus.
The top 1-2% of the population of the Soviet Union have been using toilet paper in sheet form since the 1920s. But the truth is actually mass production, which was launched only in 1969, and which the Soviet people first had to get used to using.