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Abbreviated from the German word ‘Krankenrevier’ (meaning ‘sick bay’ or ‘dispensary’) this was a barrack for sick concentration camp inmates. Most of the medical personnel were inmates themselves.
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Translator’s note — comrade.
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Sergeant.
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Editor’s note — for many decades, the most popular Soviet newspaper.
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Editor’s note — ‘Sister of Medicine’ is a term for nurse in the Russian language.
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Translator’s note — abbreviation of a special security service of the Soviet Army, also nicknamed ‘Death to the Spies’.
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Translator’s note — ‘quick’ in Ukrainian.
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Translator’s note — the rebellion of the Red Baltic Fleet naval personnel against the Bolshevik dictatorship ‘for Soviet Power without Communists’ in 1921, thwarted by Red Army troops.
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Translator’s note — Russian steam-bath.
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Editor’s note — Russian nickname for grandmother.
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Translator’s note — Division Commander.
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Editor’s note — where Order of Suvorov stands for the unit award (as was the practice) and Berlin is an honorary title.
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Translator’s note — the former riding school of the Tsars in the centre of Moscow.
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Translator’s note — policeman.
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Translator’s note — Stalin’s younger son — an Air Force General.
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Translator’s note — held in 1956, Stalin’s ‘excesses’ were condemned there for the first time.
