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Look Semyon, look Krivoshein, how my gunners, the first on the entire front, the first in this war, open fire on damned Berlin!

— Grigoriy Plaskov

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"Soviet Jews on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War and in the defense complex of the USSR" (6 June 2021), by Yuri Pereverzev, Jewish Panorama

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