We had to take the whole gun apart and screw the barrel off, and then put another barrel on. ... They didn't signal that there was anybody in there. ... He made another bad mistake in June 1941 by declaring war on Russia, until then his ally. ... By then they felt that the tide of the war had turned. the Russians had stopped the Germans at the Russian city of Stalingrad, and were pushing back from Volga River. ... They noticed for instance that there were no German planes in the sky, but they didn't know why. ...

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There is no paper. ... Soviet composers of the 1920's were confronted by many new problems. Firstly, the audiences at the time were the most diverse they had ever been, with both sophisticated intelligent listeners and the uneducated, although there was still a void where the middle class should be. ... In 1932, a union was set up, "The Union of Soviet Composers" which was then split up into sections which governs the various musical genres. ... I personally enjoyed listening to Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony although from the style of the music, it was clear that there were some poli...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate