A boy holds a toy machinegun as he stands next to a monument with fresh flowers to Podolsk's cadets died in 1941 during World War II in the town of Podolsk some 40 kilometres outside Moscow on October 6, 2022. Podolsk cadets – cadets of the Podolsk artillery and rifle military schools, who were alerted on October 5, 1941 to the defence of Moscow in the initial period of World War II. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)
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