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"Of men born in the Soviet Union in 1921, one in _____ lived to see the age of thirty".
I can't remember the number and have not figured out how to look it up. I have a strong feeling that it's more than five.
I can't remember the number and have not figured out how to look it up. I have a strong feeling that it's more than five.
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Date: 2009-05-26 07:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-26 07:58 pm (UTC)Bet it can't, though.
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Date: 2009-05-26 08:53 pm (UTC)A naive Google search found a quote in The Guardian which would make the number an extraordinary twenty-five: 'Of the young men born in the USSR in 1921, only four percent survived the War'. That's The Guardian, newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia.
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Date: 2009-05-26 09:23 pm (UTC)it's either 10 or three. it's always one of those two... ;)
seriously tho, i've never heard that before.
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Date: 2009-05-27 12:06 pm (UTC)