Word: tyubeteiki
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...week long Warsaw was treated to a gigantic dose of such dialectics. It was the annual conference of the Communist-dominated World Federation of Democratic Youth. There were delegates from 46 countries-Indian girls in saris, Vietnamese in lumber jackets, Uzbeks in embroidered beanies (called tyubeteiki), Americans in sloppy sweaters with Wallace-for-President buttons...
Facing Stalin in the long, vaulted, white, brown and yellow Andreevsky Hall, 1,300 deputies sat at school-bench desks. Round-eyed, shaven-pated Russians in business suits sat beside slant-eyed Uzbeks and Tadjiks in embroidered tyubeteiki (skull caps). They were handed the biggest budget in Soviet history: 387.9 billion rubles ($74 billion). The military would get 17%, compared with 18% of a 371 billion ruble budget...
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