"Love... Seryoga and I walked from Brest to Stalingrad with love. And then from Stalingrad to here, to the Dnieper, with love. I will be able to fly this route in a hundred years without a map. Because there are graves of the guys from Singing squadron everywhere."
January 1, 1970
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