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Soviet Veterans Recount the Day the War Began

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Every family in the Soviet Union lost at least one person in the war. More than 26 million people died, in what's known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War. Some of those who faced the terror shared their memories of the day that the war began and how they sent their fathers to the front. Here are two personal accounts of tragic loss during WWII.

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