"The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.“


-Kathryn Bigelow

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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

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