Word: valenkis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German. His head was wrapped in a woman's shawl looted from some Russian peasant hut. A threadbare blanket with a hole cut in the middle served him as a poncho. The Red Army men, dressed in the standard winter sheepskin shubas (coats), fleece-lined caps and warm valenki (knee-high felt boots), seized the shivering Fritz as he stood sentry duty over a zigzag trench full of freezing Germans. All he could mumble was "holodno" (cold...
Throughout Russia an estimated 20 to 30 million civilian refugees from occupied areas squeezed into odd corners of already crowded rooms. Valenki (knee-high felt winter boots) and beds were used in rotation by people working on different shifts. Bread rations in central Russia are two pounds of black bread per day for heavy workers, one pound for children. In besieged Leningrad men get 150 grams (5 oz.) of bread a day and little else...
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