Interview: Robert Service discusses the upcoming 60th anniversary of the Russian army's defeat of the Nazis on the Eastern Front

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ROBERT SIEGEL
All Things Considered (NPR)
05-06-2005
Interview: Robert Service discusses the upcoming 60th anniversary of the Russian army's defeat of the Nazis on the Eastern Front

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President Bush has begun an overseas trip that starts in Latvia and takes him to Moscow on Monday. The president and other world leaders will celebrate the Allied victory in Europe in the Second World War. The Soviet Union, as it was then, lost about 27 million people in the war. At great cost, the Red Army turned the Third Reich back and altered the ...

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