Why did the Japanese buy broken glass from the Soviet Union? #shorts #history

Did you know that during the Cold War Japan bought large quantities of broken glass from the Soviet Union and threw them away? #shorts #history #didyouknow #coldwar #japan #sovietunion #crazyfacts #interestingfacts #historical

[bojanglesthewizard]

That's a big brain moment right there

[feedthegorillal.]

Yea but they were restricted to the size of the wood.

[petesure]

You'll need mountains of glass to get a few boxes. Still sounds arbitrarily wasteful.

[haroldmorris]

Would you happen to know why they needed wood? Most of their forests and cities were napalmed before we nuked Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

[loranlomiller]

Was it radioactive broken glass? Asking for a friend🤷‍♂️