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DONETSK, Ukraine - Novelist Fedor Berezin is living a plotline from his science-fiction oeuvre, right here and now in the separatist badlands of eastern Ukraine. His books sketch out a future in which Russian soldiers - in one novel armed with plasma rifles and exoskeleton suits, and in another emerging from a dimension where the Soviet Union still exists - successfully attack America. 

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