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Why Soviet Soldiers Hated American Spam

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Created November 27, 2025

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Learn why Soviet soldiers hated Spam despite the Lend-Lease aid. We look at the history of Tushonka and why the Red Army preferred their own canned meat.

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So meanwhile, in the other side of the world, United States was sending millions

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of tons of food to USSR under land lease. Like there, the mountains of

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Spam. Mountains of Spam. I, I'm not hating on Spam.

5:09

I'm not hating on Spam. I love Spam. Okay, so here's the thing.

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Soviet soldiers didn't love Spam. It was foreign, unfamiliar, too smooth,

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too salty. It, honestly, it was too American at the time.

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So Soviet planners look into US models of the hog production, um, with like hog- blotted

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pigs and, versus like big type pigs. I don't know. Anyways,

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