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FARGO -- "Always to wanderis the refugee's terrible fate,and who will be left as the wars' winnerwhen all become homeless?" - Olga Hoffman G?rtner, "Homesickness" (translated from German)... Russian ...

In Russian folklore, the Volga River is mother and mistress, comrade and beloved companion and subject of tall tales. For today's Russia, it remains all of the above and an important source of water, ...

The Germans are losing the war in Russia, which means that they are losing World War II. On the frozen plains of Rzhev before Moscow, on the Don and in the Volga corridor at Stalingrad, in the snows ...