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Having first seen combat in World War II in July 1941 during the initial phase of
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Boyko was born to a
Ukrainian peasant family living in the rural village of Zhornyshche in the Podolian Governorate before the formation of the Soviet Union. After completing primary school he began working, but he would continue his studies in the winter. Eventually, he completed his seventh grade
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