Sunday, September 28, 2008

The Soviet Yurt

It's a pre-1991 story but it's still cute. The subject is the yurt, the felt-lined, circular mobile home that has served as housing on the steppes since the dawn of time. It's a marvelous invention, really: cool in the summer, snug and warm in the winter, making life bearable in a climate of extremes.

Anyway, here's a Soviet newspaper announcing another triumph for Soviet science--the Soviet yurt. Built out of aluminum it is--uh, well, a sauna in the summer, an icebox in the winter. Um, let's take another look at the mission statement

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