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I could think of only one group of people who could be using the path in an occupied village so close to the front line: Russian soldiers.

These soldiers, many from East African nations, have been deployed since 2007 with Swahili often their common language.

“His own biography — born in India, sent to Burma as a young soldier, doing what he did there and being ashamed of it — drew him closer to my own experience,” Peck says.

Code for the authority to send soldiers on immigration raids and to control crowds of protesters.

Alexandrovna herself appears in several photos taken with recruits when they first land in Russia; others depict foreign soldiers after they receive their citizenship, smiling to the camera and proudly showing off their passports.