Machorka

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Machorka ( Махорка ) is a Russian tobacco variety from the tobacco Nicotiana rustica (also " peasant tobacco "), which was once cultivated by Indians in eastern North America and is now almost only grown in Poland and Russia . Machorka is usually smoked as a papirossa or as a hand- rolled cigarette; it is unsuitable for use as pipe tobacco.

The farmer's tobacco is only roughly cut; the nicotine content is very high, so importation into the EU is prohibited.

The Machorka cigarette Papirossa , which was once widely used by Russian soldiers, has now become a symbol of the Soviet period in Russian history. Among other things, made in the Second World War, German soldiers in the war against the Soviet Union with the tobacco acquaintance; In the jargon of the time, the Germans also called Machorka Stalinhäcksel . In the Soviet captivity of war, Machorka was occasionally given out as part of the catering allocations.

Web links

• Belomorkanal cigarettes, the strongest in the world (Youtube)

Wiktionary: Machorka  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Pfeifer (head): Etymological dictionary of German . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1993, keyword: Machorka . ISBN 3-423-03358-4 .