• Wilshire@sopuli.xyz
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      11 months ago

      Translation by Google:

      Another cargo-200 arrived in Neryungri (Sakha Republic)

      The Ruslan plane has landed

      We take away the soldiers who died

      All our boys are from Yakutsk

      26 people

      Here are 2 cars loaded

      “Uploaded” Tolik

      I was “downloaded”

      We have already taken 16 people

      The rest are being loaded

      9 people in Kamaz

      We are located: Neryungri airport

      Now let’s take it

      to the railway

      Already for distribution

      all the boys

      load into wagons

      Just like that

      All contract soldiers are boys

      All young

      And this is famous

      airplane “Ruslan”

      Here, the latest ones have been uploaded

      That’s it, we’re leaving

      Sorry for the bad photography

      Hands are very cold

    • GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social
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      11 months ago

      I forget the exact origin, but “Cargo 200” is a macabre expression in the former Soviet bloc for cargo that is actually corpses from the front. I think Soviet leadership used to list these transports as “Cargo 200” during the second world war to disguise the true volume of soldiers that were dying while fighting Nazi Germany.