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# A 1933 letter from Vitebsk asking for spoons and bread is called a forgery by a reader
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/nekotoroe-vremia-nazad-na-zolotom-veke-bylo-opublikovano-pismo-1933-goda-naidennoe-v-staroi-knige/
- Published: 2020-07-19T20:22:55.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:07:06.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Observations, Society, Humour

Some time ago a letter from 1933, found in an old book, was [published](https://t.me/cucumberdeath/2333?ref=theparnassian.com) on "The Golden Age". In it a certain woman describes the grim state of affairs in Vitebsk and asks the relative to whom the letter is addressed to send her a dozen silver teaspoons. "I shall ask you, if it is not too much trouble, to buy and send me a loaf of bread along with the spoons; I shall remit you the cost of it all at once, as soon as I receive your parcel."

Like other publications, this post was published on the Mockingbird's [Yandex.Zen](https://zen.yandex.ru/media/captainpaleo/pismo-iz-golodnogo-33-goda-nashlos-v-antikvarnoi-knige-5eed35fefcac0565ee6de8ac?ref=theparnassian.com#comment%5F429219124). And what do you think? Along came a man who decided that this letter was the work of a FORGER, who wrote it with a ballpoint pen, evidently in order to blacken the Soviet Union or Stalin personally. With communist greetings, as the saying goes!