Word: soska
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...Lenin's Banner, official organ of the Moscow District party, bared the Great Nipple Shortage. Last week, after tracing the problem from drugstore to Kremlin level, a pair of reporters revealed that there is not a single soska (rubber baby-bottle nipple) to be had in all the Moscow oblast. Although last year's central economic plan called for the production of 30 million nipples, only 12 million were actually manufactured.* The crusading reporters declared that the only plant making surgical rubber was denied authorization to increase production by the planners...
...February 1944, Comrade Borovik desperately appealed to the Department of Rubber-Technical Goods: 'Soska!' [nipples]. He was not answered. At the beginning of September and the middle, he wailed: 'SOSka, SOS SOS SOS!' Silence...
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