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burst into the trenches of the enemy, carrying the soldiers forward by his example. In hand-to-hand fighting he personally wiped out more than ten enemy soldiers. Subsequently, in the expansion of the brigade he repulsed multiple attempts of the enemy to retake the lost positions. Comrade
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