From Russia with Earflaps

The iconic Russian fur hat, the ushanka (ушанка), is actually a recent invention, born in Finland before adoption by the Soviet military in the 1940s. A video by Jean-Charles Foyer, the Hat Historian. (Version française).

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Short link: https://wp.me/p6sb6-EIX

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