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Remember!

The recording of this poem used to play every hour (maybe still does) near the Monument to the Unknown Sailor in Odessa, Ukraine. After few times I instinctively tuned out the somber voice of the announcer. Today, 65 years after the World War II, it has a different meaning.

I was named [...]

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Real World War II (Part 2)

Here is another short installment of the war memoirs written by Nikolai Nikulin. I really wanted to translate this chapter because it’s one of the most graphic and honest description of what was the life like for a Soviet soldier during the World War II. The idea of the needless sacrifice of the [...]