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{{short description|type of tunic or jacket}}The Stalin tunic or Stalinka (Russian: Сталинка) is a type of tunic or jacket associated with Joseph Stalin; from the 1920s until the 1950s and beyond, it was commonly worn as a political uniform by Soviet government officials (and, after World War II, by officials in the Soviet satellite states as well).[1] It evolved from the so-called "French tunic" of the Imperial Russian Army, which had appeared in the First World War; the difference was that the Stalinka had a soft turn-down collar.[2] The Stalin tunic was deliberately modest and spartan, as a symbol of proletarian unity and a counterpart to business suits, which were seen as representing the old Czarist and capitalist past; it was also used as a basis for designing Soviet military uniforms.[3] References1. ^[https://namednibook.ru/stalinka.html Леонид Парфенов, «Сталинка»]
2. ^[https://namednibook.ru/stalinka.html Леонид Парфенов, «Сталинка»]
3. ^[https://namednibook.ru/stalinka.html Леонид Парфенов, «Сталинка»]
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