Sputnik, Issue 8Novosti Press Agency., 1997 |
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... army is compulsory here , that is extremely difficult to do . What is it about the army that people dread so much ? It is primarily some- thing called ' dedovshchina ' - a system of relations between the personnel which is not ...
... army is compulsory here , that is extremely difficult to do . What is it about the army that people dread so much ? It is primarily some- thing called ' dedovshchina ' - a system of relations between the personnel which is not ...
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... army that I really got to know my country , for I found the army to be a cross - section of Russia . From Moscow , one gets an entirely dif- ferent view of life . With my highfalutin ideas and intellectual demands , I did not fit in the ...
... army that I really got to know my country , for I found the army to be a cross - section of Russia . From Moscow , one gets an entirely dif- ferent view of life . With my highfalutin ideas and intellectual demands , I did not fit in the ...
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... army I realized that everything is relative - including hardships . For instance , when we returned to the barracks after field exercises , it felt like coming home what with the dampness and living mostly on potatoes . And only in the army ...
... army I realized that everything is relative - including hardships . For instance , when we returned to the barracks after field exercises , it felt like coming home what with the dampness and living mostly on potatoes . And only in the army ...
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