"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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You should have seen '70s-'80s Soviet cardboard. Nothing else like it.
it wasn't too bad when it was dry, it was thicker than anyone else's
,because it was the only way to get any strength. Wet though, the stuff
was like soggy tissue. It must have been recycled out of old recyclings
and the fibres were just too short to have any wet strength left.

Ever notice that any book printed on slick paper, much less coated, was
printed in Finland, not USSR? They were cheap, of course.