The 21st Guards Motor Rifle Division is a unit of the Russian Ground Forces, within the Far East Military District, formed from the Red Army 31st Guards Rifle Division, an infantry division of World War II which subsequently became a motor-rifle, and ultimately a tank division.
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the pulse of their blossoming
thunders through us.”
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