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School for Junior Aviation Specialists.
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Translator’s note — a Soviet playwright.
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Editor’s note — ‘The apple’, a then-famous folk dance.
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Translator’s note — one of the most famous and emotional wartime poems in the USSR.
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Editor’s note — this is indeed true: the ratio of losses in
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Editor’s note — a frontier conflict between Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China.
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Editor’s note — in this area the historic battle of Poltava, between Peter the Great’s army and the Swedish army of Charles XII, took place in 1709.
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Translator’s note — a deputy commander in political affairs.
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American B-17 Flying Fortresses flying missions over Eastern Europe sometimes used Poltava.
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Translator’s note — words of the feminine gender in Russian.
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Translator’s note — a state-owned collective farm in the USSR.
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Translator’s note — diminutive form of Vladimir.
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Translator’s note — a slang word for exemption from military service.
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Translator’s note — collective farmer.
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Editor’s note — in Russian, one would say ‘motherland’.
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Translator’s note — abbreviation for the Workers and Peasants Red Army.
