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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “To offer each other tobacco and to be offered a light is again an international expression of friendship.”

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To offer each other tobacco and to be offered a light is again an international expression of friendship.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin emphasizes the act of sharing tobacco as a universal sign of camaraderie and hospitality.

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