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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;900fine, post: 291023, member: 6036&quot;]Cool ! I thought &quot;half&quot; was &quot;polovina&quot;, or pol for short.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Workers of the world, unite !&quot; Famous last words of <i>The Communist Manifesto</i>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So &quot;prolatariat&quot; = &quot;workers&quot; in this case. Makes sense; they wanted to talk about workers in a &quot;class-struggle&quot; context, rather than the more familiar word &quot;rabochie&quot;. And the idea &quot;unite&quot; connects up with &quot;solidarity&quot; ...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>An excellent example of coins as history and vehicles of national values (or propaganda, depending on your perspective).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Those are cool ! I remember when I was a kid seeing a mint set of Soviet coins - I guess they were early 70s. I remember thinking how exotic they seemed.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Those are cool... but the Stalin one IS scary, all right ! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Czechoslovakian, right ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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