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In 1941, a Soviet soldier of Jewish descent was captured by the Nazis and sent to the Sobibor extermination camp in occupied Poland. Despite the brutal oppression of his Nazi captors, Lt.

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The Vyborg District Soviet also protested against ‘the adventure of the Provisional ... [xxx] The counter-revolution was taking ever firmer shape, but a previous meeting between Kerensky and Kornilov ...

These are the explosion at Chernobyl, Soviet Union, in 1986 and the earthquake-caused disaster at Fukushima, Japan, in 2011, both scoring level 7. The Windscale fire ranked level 5, the same as the ...

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