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In the summer of 1943, after the breakthrough on the Kursk bulge and the liberation of Orel,1 Gordon, recently promoted to second lieutenant, and Major Dudorov were returning separately to their common army unit, the first from a service trip to Moscow, the second from a three-day leave there.
They met on the way back and spent the night in Chern, a little town, devastated but not completely destroyed, like most of the settlements in that "desert zone" wiped off the face of the earth by the retreating enemy.