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# Urban legends of 1917 about syphilitic street sellers of cigarettes
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/gorodskie-legendy-v-1917-po-stolitse-vidimo-nevidimo-razvelos-ulichnykh-torgovtsev-papirosami-iz-nikh-mnogie-bolnye-soldaty-mnogie-zaraznye-chasto-sifilitiki-kotorye-mogut-zarazhat-papi/
- Published: 2023-07-13T16:41:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:02:38.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Observations, Mores, Society

Urban legends of 1917: the capital teems with street sellers of cigarettes, many of them sick soldiers, many contagious, often syphilitics, who might infect the cigarettes and sell them on. Greetings to poisoned needles, poisoned apples, infected envelopes, the spraying of viruses and dangerous perfumes. A hundred years have passed, and the bogeys are still the same.