The Barry Sisters "KUPITE KOYFCHEN, KOYFCHEN PAPIROSEN"

Oddly enough, the author of the once popular song “Buy a Cigarette,” so in tune with a certain period of Soviet history, never lived in the Soviet Union. He wrote it as a respectable American in the early 30s of the last century. The author of this hit is considered to be the owner of the Dutch-German name and Russian-Slavic surname German Yablokov, who was actually Chaim Yablonik, a native of the Western Belarusian city of Grodno. In the year of his birth - 1903 - the city was still on the territory of the Russian Empire, and later it went to the newly independent Poland.