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Old Cossack Prokopenko
equips his son for the march

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The old man has kept his battle
armor for many years, and today
he hands it over to his son.

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Handing it over, the old man
asked him to protect his sword

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like the apple of his eye, and
to keep his Cossack pike sharp.

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The Leningrad Cossack
village sends off its sons.

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City of Rostov, March 17, 1936.
A combined Cossack regiment takes an oath
of loyalty to the Party and government.

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[The oath. Portraits of Cossack
medal-winners Potelkov and Krivoshlikov]

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The combined Cossack regiment. As the
finest sons of revolutionary Cossacks,

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Soviet Cossacks will boldly rise
in defense of the borders

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of the great proletarian state at any moment.

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The workers of Rostov demonstrate
their friendship for kolkhoz Cossacks.