>>However, the 10 dinars with a foundry worker on it
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>Why do communist couuntries always have pictures of foundry workers all over the place? :-)

Those were the countries where the working class was (supposed to be) the ruling class. And since they usually started with the working class being an actual minority - there were many more peasants - they went into heavy industrialization. As the economic theory of the time was measuring the prosperity of a country by its steel production, the heavy metal faces became The Symbol of the new society. Then it pretty much became the part of the lore, iconography, canon of soc-realistic art. Just like you couldn't see the big slogans in any other shape but white (or gold yellow) on red, likewise you couldn't see a shoemaker or a waiter depicted as a symbolic worker.

BTW, nobody's working at Walmart. They associate instead.

>"som" (dunno the names of the fish in English - this is the one with a 'mustache', lives on the bottom of slow rivers),
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>Catfish?

Could well be. I have trouble learning the names of birds, flowers, fish, diseases, garments and a few other lists of things in each language (including my own :).