You couldn't be more right about that. I was in St. Petersburg in 1996 and I quickly learned to carry a roll of TP wherever I went. Public bathrooms typically had no toilet paper or, at best, an old lady doling out a couple sheets at the door to the restroom. In one bathroom in a museum, a user, obviously in an act of desperation, had used the wall.
**** Public bathrooms typically had no toilet paper or, at best, an old lady doling out a couple sheets at the door to the restroom.***
Same in Mexico, except you had to pay for the sheets and there was an armed guard there to make sure you paid!