WEIRD FACTS ABOUT
SOCIALISM

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SOCIALISM

In 1961, the Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev declared rubber wellington boots to be socialist footwear while leather wellingtons were the capitalist style. Stalin wore leather ones.


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