The staple food of each country and region is different, for example, in our country, the staple food of the southerners is rice, the staple food of the northerners is steamed buns, like Russia is located in such a cold country, the staple food is naturally different from us, in Russia, the staple food is a kind of people eat is a kind of bread called black Leba. Speaking of black Lebas, many people may feel strange, next, we can first briefly understand this bread.

Generally speaking, bread is divided into white bread and black bread. White bread is the kind of bread we usually eat, mainly made of fine flour, its material is soft, easy to eat, both at home and abroad, are very popular. On the other hand, black bread is a kind of bread made by adding a lot of "impurities" on the basis of white bread. In the process of making black bread, besides flour, people also add a lot of wheat husk, germ or other crop impurities that people seldom eat.

Because of the many impurities that are often used to feed chickens or pigs, the material of this black bread is relatively hard, and people need to chew it carefully when they eat it in order to eat it into their stomachs. Of course, this black bread compared to white bread advantages are also a lot, in general, the biggest advantage of black bread is easy to save, will not be as easy as white bread spoilage, if people go out of town or go to some of the lack of food access to the place, bring this bread is a very good choice.

Also, this kind of black bread is hard to be digested after being eaten into the stomach, and people usually only need to eat a little bit of it, so they can support for a long time without having the feeling of hunger. If it is in the time of food shortage, this kind of black bread can help people to support longer time in the desperate situation.

If in the era of peace and abundance, this black bread is a good choice for people to lose weight, only need to eat a little bit of this bread, want to lose weight, it is very difficult to produce the feeling of hunger, so that in the case of food intake is reduced, people can achieve the effect of weight loss. And what we call black leba is exactly what the Russians call a kind of black bread.

Russia's black leba has a very long history, and legend has it that during Napoleon's attack on Russia, this food has already appeared in Russia. In time to the outbreak of the Second World War, this black Lebas is even more brilliant, became the life of countless Russians to save the "holy", accompanied by the majority of Russians through the difficulties of the Second World War.

However, unlike today's Black Lebas, the materials used in the World War II Black Lebas were more rough and complicated. During World War II, in addition to using wheat rinds from chickens and pigs to make black bread, they also mixed in some wood chips and other impurities, trying to increase the content of such impurities to make more bread with a limited amount of flour. And when it comes to the reason for the popularity of black levain, it's really quite simple: if it hadn't been welcome, it's possible that many Soviets at the time wouldn't have lived to see the end of the war.

Of course, that doesn't say much about how much Russians enjoyed black leba, which for many Soviets at the outbreak of the Second World War was more a necessity for survival than a so-called gastronomic delight. The texture of the bread itself was sour, and then with all the impurities that were mixed in, just think about it, and you can imagine what it must have tasted like at the time.

I don't think the Soviets would have chosen to eat that kind of bread if they didn't have nothing else to eat at the time and were facing starvation all the time. However, this kind of black leba with many impurities wasn't available indefinitely during WWII. Because of the lack of food resources, the amount of black leba that Soviet soldiers could distribute was extremely scarce, and at times, it was extremely difficult to even get black leba. When it was impossible to distribute the black leva, some soldiers and officers would take out some of their own valuable items to exchange for black leva, using this way to survive. And much different from the Soviets were the Americans.

In World War II, the U.S. military's staple food is a canned food called Pam's Lunch Meat, which is made of pork and flour and various seasonings, and contains great nutrition and energy. During World War II, the U.S. military ate this canned food three times a day, and because they ate it every day, many U.S. servicemen became disgusted with it at the end of the war, claiming that they wanted to vomit at the sight of it.

From this aspect of the comparison, we can know that the Soviet Union at that time and the United States of America's gap, one is laced with all kinds of impurities can not be supplied to the bread completely, one is to eat meat food to eat to want to vomit.