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• ... that as a teenager, Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhaylovich Reshetnikov (pictured) was convicted of stealing mail and sentenced to three months in a monastery?
• ... that the first foreigner decorated in World War Two with the highest Soviet medal, Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Czechoslovak soldier, Otakar Jaroš after the Battle of Sokolovo in 1943?
• ... that the Polish Second Army was the second major formation of the Peoples' Army of Poland fighting alongside the Soviet Union in the Second World War?

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1. Wikipedia:Recent additions 118, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions 119, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
3. Wikipedia:Recent additions 119, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.