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TIL when Turkey was outraged over Mount Ararat included in Soviet Armenia's coat of Arms, Nikita Khrushchev responded to Turkey with "Why do you have a moon on your flag? The moon doesn't belong to Turkey, not even half the moon". Turkey dropped the issue after this.

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