>You know, I mentioned that to our linguistics guy, because I was
>seeing a different rendering in what little of various
>Russian-language pages that appeared to be about the war I could
>figure out, but he said no, this is the way you say that. And I
>figured, well, believe the guy who did the translations in
>Apotheosis Now, believe the wikipedia... you make the call.
>
>Ah well. Can't win 'em all.
>

Indeed. Besides, it's not like the language used in Hunt for Red October or other high budget productions was much more accurate. Even Wikipedia:
here says "liberated encyclopedia" while I always thought it was free as in beer.

Anyway, it doesn't detract from the story in any way.

Here's an interesting memory that floated up in my mind. A couple of years ago there was this exhibition of Soviet art in the Guggenheim Museum here in the city. I got a private tour with my MBA class, so there were 20-something of us in an empty museum, which was kind of cool. We got to this enormous painting of the battle of Stalingrad with the Russian and the German soldiers running towards each other bayonets first, over a barricade. And then I realized that right next to me was a German classmate whose grandfather was one side of this barricade while my grandfather was on another. Funny how this world works.

Alec