Word: svetkov
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...Stalingrad's best streets stood Apartment 21-A. It had had a corner sheered off by a German bomb, but Sub-Lieutenant Svetkov and a handful of grenadiers held the building for nine days. Barricades, trenches and machine guns were prepared to control the street intersection. At dawn twelve heavy German tanks, loaded with shocks troops, attacked. Hits from anti-tank guns set five afire. Seven rumbled on. Svetkov and his men had no more anti-tank ammunition, so they hurled grenades from the windows. Three more tanks were disabled. Four came...
Said Sub-Lieutenant Svetkov: "When I think of Germans I can't control myself. I shake, my hands itch. I've got to shoot, or throw a grenade, or use a bayonet...