Word: matryoshka
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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April J. Werner and Ben Bergstein, vendors from the Volga River Trading Company, sold products from Russia, Armenia and other eastern European countries. They had a large display of wooden nestling dolls called matryoshka, meaning "little mother" in Russian. They have been selling their products at the bazaar for four years...
This free-enterprise spirit is already much in evidence among Moscow street artists, who are doing brisk business with a variation of the famous matryoshka dolls. The new set contains caricatures of five Communist leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev. Cost...
...union is like a Matryoshka doll. You get a Matryoshka doll inside a Matryoshka doll, and you get identical dolls, just smaller and smaller. We have 15 union republics, but within those republics we have 20 autonomous republics, eight autonomous regions and ten autonomous areas. What we really need is 53 independent republics, each with a direct line of submission to the center. In the U.S. there are 50 states. We need the same...