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Dmitry Koznov went to war at 18, in 1943, when Hitler's invasion force still hovered not far from Moscow. The theatre school student took up arms to break the siege of Leningrad and fight in Belarus, Ukraine, Poland and Germany, barely surviving what Soviets called the Great Patriotic War.

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