Hello,

I recently found this cut out piece of newspaper, and the headline greatly amused me, and I am curious to see what the people thought back then.

Are there any online resources I could use to track this specific paper?

Thanks.

P.s. if anyone knows any details, please drop them in the comments. Currently all I can establish is that this paper must have been from 1973.

by DeVliegendeBrabander

13 comments

  1. This looks like paper that would be put in a basket of a fast food restaurant to soak up the grease. There’s no way this is 50 years old and the words are that vibrant, especially the red, on paper that white.

  2. these cut ones are usually used as wrappers for gas station hotdogs and arent real newspapers but printed today.

    im not sure if the text is copied from a real paper

  4. This isnt newspaper bro, it’s a paper for holding a hotdog or kebab or something

  5. You’ve got a piece of the logotype there. Seems it came from “Trybuna Ludu”.

    Unfortunately, that was a daily newspaper.

  6. As other people say it’s a burger or other fast food wrapper. But it might be a copy of original newspaper. You need to find some archive library and read every single headline from “Trybuna ludu” (“udu” cut headline) from 1973. Good luck 😉 Edit: looking at one article it’s probably from June (“czerwcowe”)

  9. As other people mentioned it’s a food wrapper

    [Here](https://sklep.margopack.pl/pl/p/Papier-spozywczy-TRYBUNA-LUDU-ryza-50x70cm-10kg/26704) you can find the website to buy those wrappers

    As you can see on the bigger picture it appears to be “Trybuna Ludu” from 1st of May 1973, but I can’t tell if it’s a real copy or just a mock paper, so if you’d like to dig a little deeper you should be able to find this exact edition in the National Library in Warsaw

  11. > and I am curious to see what the people thought back then.

    To know this, one would have to find a scientific article based on secret police materials. Only Służba Bezpieczeństwa, using a network of informers, prepared real secret reports about what people thought.

    Do not even think about finding real opinions in such newspapers. My parents bought them only because they were bigger pieces of paper, good for sewing patterns for clothes (it was almost impossible to buy something acceptable to wear in shops).

  12. https://preview.redd.it/yvfd8tn0kbke1.png?width=938&format=png&auto=webp&s=e5b47bc2fba5df82c27fbf11acc41ae5b7279079

    I recently made a similar discovery. Stumbled across these in an old storage unit (definitely NOT a trash bin), and I have no idea what I’m looking at. The packaging style feels strangely modern, but the materials and sealing methods suggest something from the late Cold War era—possibly a ration pack or logistics supply drop?

    The uniform markings and coded labels make me think it was part of a standardized distribution system, but for what? Emergency stockpile? Military? Government-issued survival kits? The contents seem completely intact despite what looks like years of compression.

    Hoping someone here can help identify these. Have any similar finds been documented? Would love to know if this was part of a larger operation or just some obscure relic of the past.

  13. That’s from World War II. The Germans wrapped their fuhrer wurst in them.

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