What Happened To The Pointy Communist Hat?
What Happened To The Pointy Communist Hat?
The rise and fall of the Red Army's "budyonovka" cap.
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Painter Vasnetsov, whose favorite subjects included Russian mythology, modeled the budyonovka hat on the helmets of the legendary bogatyr.
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Bogatyr were mythical knights who roamed the Russian wilderness slaying dragons and defending their lands from foreign invaders. Both of the above artworks were painted by Vasnetsov.
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A parade of Red Army soldiers in Moscow. After Bolshevik revolutionaries gained power in 1917, then quit World War I, they reportedly seized thousands of the unused caps from the tsar's depots...
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...and began producing their own versions, emblazoned with a 10.5-centimeter communist star.