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GENERATIONS
of mourners gath–
ered at Soviet memorial parks this
past spring, commemorating the
29th anniversary of the end of the
Second World War - known inside
the Soviet Union as the " Great
Patriotic War. " Woman and her
grandson, left, view wreaths at
Leningrad's Piskarevsky Memorial
Cemetery. Leningrad schoolchildren,
top right, wearing their " Young
Pioneers " scarves, pay their re–
spects to the hundreds of thousands
of war dead buried at Piskarevsky.
Obelisk, at right, honoring Kiev 's
Unknown Soldier, drew huge crowds
to festivities on May 9, " Victory
Day" in the U.S.S.R.
PLAIN TRUTH October-November 1974
AN IN·DEPTH LOOK
AT THE SOUL OF
by
Gene H. Hogberg
Photos by Dexter H. Faulkner and the author
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