Surely, from older relatives, many have heard that in the days of the Soviet Union, newspapers were pasted on the walls before wallpapering. It is possible that someone himself did something similar in his own lifetime. Indeed, even in the 1990s, this method of wallpapering was still widely practiced. Question: why do we need newspapers on the walls under the wallpaper? Don't read them?
No, reading newspapers on the walls under the wallpaper will definitely not work. In the days of the Soviet Union, they were also hardly re-read during pasting, since only old and already, in fact, unnecessary correspondence was used for such purposes. Why was all this necessary? Wouldn't it be better to just wallpaper the walls? Not really. Moreover, pasting with newspapers performed two functions at once.
The first function was a side one. It boiled down to leveling the surface of the walls in some places. On the walls, especially in wooden houses, bumps could appear. They were gracefully eliminated by sticking in one place not one, but several newspapers. Most often, this technique was practiced in rural areas. In cities, it was almost never necessary to glue newspapers on the walls, since they were concrete there, and a crooked concrete wall is not a reason for repair, but for excitement.
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The second function was actually the main one. The fact is that Soviet citizens for the most part did repairs on their own, in the “worst” case with the involvement of relatives or colleagues. Most of the work was done by non-professionals. Moreover, the main adhesive material was homemade paste on starch. Actually, he could become the main source of problems when trying to put wallpaper on bare walls. In order for the wallpaper to sit well and reliably, newspapers were first glued to the walls, which, in fact, became a “primer”. The newspaper, unlike wallpaper, was completely saturated with glue, which is why it “sat down” on a concrete wall better and faster.
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Source: https://novate.ru/blogs/110422/62661/