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  • My grandfather ran toward the Russians.

    My grandfather ran toward the Russians.

    That’s how the newspaper described it. ‘Sprang rakt i armarna på vinkande ryssar´- ran straight into the arms of waving Russians. It’s the kind of detail that gets stuck. February 12, 1940. A crossroads called miljonkorsun (the million bunker – it cost at least a million to build) by the Swedish speaking soldiers, near Summa,…