Word: trishka
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...there within only two years; 2) the Kremlin was willing to rob its established farmlands of machinery and its factories of manpower to exploit the virgin lands. Taking from other sectors of the economy to build the new enterprise brought to mind Russian Satirist Krylov's fable of Trishka, the poor simpleton who patched a hole in the elbow of his coat by cutting a piece of cloth from the cuff, patched the new hole by cutting away the coattails, finally went about in a coat cut shorter than his vest...
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