Ivan’s War (80 page)

obezlichka
(buck-passing),
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Oboyan,
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October Revolution anniversary (7 November),
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‘Oh, the Long Road’,
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Oka river,
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Oktyabrskaya, Mariya,
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Omsk,
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Omskaya Pravda
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Operation Bagration,
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five separate, co-ordinated strikes,
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Minsk recaptured,
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momentum exhausted by October 1944,
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one of the war’s largest military campaigns,
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planning,
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Operation Barbarossa,
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Operation Overlord,
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Operation Uranus,
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opolchenie
(citizens’ defence),
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Orange Revolution (January 2005),
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Oranienburg,
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Order no.
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Order no.
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Orel,
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Orthodox Church,
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Oskol, Staryi,
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OSMBON (Motorized Infantry Brigade of the NKVD Special Forces),
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Osoaviakhim (Society for Air and Chemical Defence),
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Overy, Richard,
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‘Panfilov men’,
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parachute clubs,
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Park of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Pokhlonnaya Hill, Moscow,
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partiinost
’ (party spirit),
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partisans,
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partkom
(party committee),
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Pashin, P. L.,
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Passchendaele, Battle of,
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patriotism,
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Paulus, General,
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Pavlov, Colonel-General D. G.,
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peasant farming,
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peasants

anger in Kursk region,
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importance of land, stock and the next harvest,
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the most resentful section of the population,
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the peasant village,
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in Red Army,
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penal battalions,
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‘People’s Parties of Russia’,
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Petrograd,
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Petrov, Evgeny,
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Podolsk, near Moscow,
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poetry,
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Poland,
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collectives in,
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German and Soviet armies overrun,
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German invasion of,
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Katyn massacre,
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losses during the war,
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and Nazi–Soviet pact,
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prison camps,
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Soviet troops enter,
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trophies in,
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Warsaw Uprising,
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Poles,
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police agents,
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Polish army,
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Polish campaign,
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political officers (
politruks
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politzei
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Pomerania,
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Ponomarenko,
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portyanki
(footcloths),
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post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),
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post-war adjustment process,
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Potsdam,
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Potsdam conference (July 1945),
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Pozharsky, Dmitry,
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PPZh (
pokhodno-polevye zheny
; ‘marching field wives’),
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Prague,
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Pravda
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Pripet marshes,
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prisoners-of-war

change in type of,
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German treatment of,
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and Nazi military observers,
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problems of containing,
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Russian treatment of,
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Prokhorovka,
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Prokofiev, Sergei,
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propaganda

aimed at the army,
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and the churches,
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hate,
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and humour,
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images of triumph,
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Kopelev on,
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state needs,
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stereotypical images,
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Prussia,
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looting,
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violent revenge by Red Army,
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Pskov,
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Pukhovichi,
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‘punished’ groups,
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punishment units,
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Puppet Theatre, Moscow,
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purges,
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Pushkarev, Lev,
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Putin, Vladimir,
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